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Welcome to the home page of the Baton Rouge Chapter of AORN. We hope, with this page, to inform both the professional nurse and the public about our association.
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Chapter 1904 was formed in 1966 to unite registered professional operating room nurses for the purpose of joining AORN, which is dedicated to the constant endeavor of promoting the highest professional standards of perioperative nursing practice for the optimum care of the patient before, during and after surgery.
AORN, Inc. is a professional organization of perioperative nurses, which unites its members by providing education, representation, and standards for quality patient care. It is a voluntary organization of professional registered nurses concerned with perioperative patient care.
1. Support the Strategy of AORN.
2. Nominate Chapter members for the 2002 AORN Awards.
3. Increase Membership by 10%; hold membership drive.
4. Maintain the Educational Standards of our Chapter with 6 educational programs and 1 Seminar.
5. Actively participate in Chapter Committees.
6. Represent our chapter and actively participate in our Louisiana Council.
7. Continue to educate the membership---Committee reports in the newsletter. Add biographical data to newsletter about our new members and officers. Offer news from other chapters and the national office.
8. Continue to invite student nurses/instructors to our monthly meetings and dedicate the February meeting as "Student Nurse Night".
- Go out to schools and visit with the instructors.
- Send out notices of meetings and seminars.
- Sponsor a student to our yearly seminar.
9. In light of 9/11--start each meeting with a prayer.
10 Reinstate the name tags of Officers and Board of Directors, for the monthly meetings.
History
The Baton Rouge Chapter of AORN Inc. was formed in 1966, and has developed into a respected nursing organization for perioperative nurses in the Baton Rouge and surrounding areas. The name, AORN of Baton Rouge, is familiar to other nurses and nursing organizations in our community. That recognition did not come completely from our national organization, but from past and current members whose work in perioperative nursing is visible to other professionals.
The first president of the Baton Rouge chapter was Alma Lu Harding, and the presidency was originally for a 2-year term. Our chapter celebrated its first OR Nurse Day on, November 14, 1979. Our chapter's policy and procedure manual was developed in 1988, which added a more formal structure to our organization. The first CEU program at a regular monthly meeting was during the presidency of Pat Pittman in 1988. We began the one-day seminars for CEU's in the early 1990's and these have been very successful for the chapter.
Members of this chapter have participated on a national level through research, as officers, committee members, developing poster's for Congress, authoring articles for the national journal and being congress presenters and moderators.
We have had continuous increase in the number of CNOR's in our chapter since Denise Fortenberry became the first member to achieve this status in 1979. We know have 11 CRNFA's in our chapter. Janine Hopper was the first with this recognition.
We now have a newsletter mailed to all the membership monthly. We have one of our members serving as President-Elect of our National Organization for this year and will take over the duties of President in April of 2001.