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The Official Voice of Perioperative Nursing
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October 2025 Issue
6.8 CH
The AORN Journal October Issue features the following articles:
- Supporting Perioperative Personnel After a Medical Error (2.3 CH)
- Workplace Incivility Among OR Nurses: A Descriptive Phenomenological Study
- Guidelines in Practice: Transmission‐Based Precautions (1.9 CH)
- Safety First: Preventing Lost Surgical Specimens (1.3 CH)
- Clinical Issues (1.3 CH)
- Hair management for cesarean delivery
- Surface area and prefilled skin antiseptic applicators
- Bringing stuffed toys into the OR
- Isolation gown evaluation
- Periop Briefing: Recent Evidence in Patient Positioning
- And more!
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