President's Message

Behind Our Sterile Doors

Abstract

The physical location of the Operating Room emphasises isolation. Furthermore, O.R. nurses have set up a multitude of barriers because of aseptic practices. Thus, of necessity, we have excluded other personnel from entering this ‘sterile sanctum’. Con- sequently, we have suffered on two counts. Firstly, we may not be totally aware of what is happening in nursing generally, and secondly, we have not in- formed other nursing levels of the transition which has occurred in operating room nursing concepts.