COUNTING AS CARING

Authors

  • Chris Downey

Abstract

Perioperative nurses have developed specific expert nursing care practices. “Counting as caring” is certainly an approach in keeping with the perioperative nurse’s guiding principle of beneficence (to do no harm). This article takes a retrospective look, from the first half of the last century through into the late 1960s, at the practice of counting and the influences that have changed it.

Author Biography

Chris Downey

Chris Downey, R.N., B.ScN., CPN(C), M.Sc., RNFA, is the Clinical Practice Leader (Perioperative Services), and practicing as an RNFA, at both Kingston General Hospital and Hotel Dieu Hospital, in Kingston, Ontario. She is the Past President of the periOperative Registered Nurses Association of Ontario (ORNAO).

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Published

2007-09-01

How to Cite

Downey, C. (2007). COUNTING AS CARING. Operating Room Nurses Association of Canada Journal, 25(3). Retrieved from https://ornacjournal.ca/index.php/ornac/article/view/12453

Issue

Vol. 25 No. 3 (2007): September/septembre 2007

Section

Feature Articles