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July 2025 Issue
4.4 CH
The AORN Journal July Issue features the following articles:
- Perioperative Clinical Courses for Prelicensure Nursing Students: A Scoping Review
- Factors Associated With Turnover Among Perioperative Nurses After the COVID-19 Pandemic
- Guidelines in Practice: Patient Temperature Management (1.9 CH)
- Back to Basics 2.0: Specimen Management (1.4 CH)
- Clinical Issues (1.1 CH)
- Point-of-use treatment for ophthalmic instruments
- Using spray deodorizer in the OR
- Black flecks found inside instrument sets after sterilization
- Care of the patient taking a semaglutide medication
- Periop Briefing: Mental Status Changes During the Postoperative Period
- And more!
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