November 2009

The Joint Commission has been researching how language and culture play into health literacy and has begun incorporating these ideas into accreditation requirements to decrease ethnic disparities in health care. Educating patients based on their personal learning styles, cultural beliefs, and language abilities not only will help health care facilities meet these upcoming requirements, but also will help ensure overall positive surgical experiences and outcomes for patients ... Read more+

Read other stories in the November issue of AORN Connections.

Advocacy training for a new generation of leaders 

After AORN grassroots advocacy members in Indiana successfully saw an RN as Circulator law through to fruition, Diana Sullivan, RN, MSN, CNOR, and Teresa Nosek, RN, BSN, CNOR, ONC, sought totell their colleagues in Indianapolis about it. They were eager to sustain the momentum that they and other AORN grassroots advocacy leaders had built, and looked forward to advancing new legislation.

In talking to her colleagues, Sullivan realized that not all of her chapter members understood what she was talking about. Read the full story in the latest issue of AORN Advocacy Update.

In other news ... Read the latest issue of AORN Management Connections.