Edi+o rial The silencer-mask- is disposable. Speak out - be heard - agree -disagee - debate - question - research - investi- gate - wrife! Do any of these, but do get involved! Involvement implies an inextricable asso- cation or concern with something. I have yet to hear an AORN member suy she is not concerned with nursing. Why is it, when 1 meet and talk to AORN members, I detect a wealth of knowledge which should be shared? This is unique knowledge, gleaned not easily, but through years of hard, painful trial and error work. This knowledge fairly oozes from their brains. Informal discussion releases a rush of dialogue, but few of these words ever get on paper for assimilation by others. The most valuable, practical commodity in a human’s life is experience. This commodity can never be bought; it must be ac- quired as a result of time well spent. I wonder why it is that AORN members who possess this knowledge, put up a mental isolation barrier? I wonder: why not a sharing of this knowledge, a self-perpetuat- ing growth of ideas? Why not write for publication in the AORN JOURNAL? Is integrity secured by isolationism? Does your professional reputation remain invi- olate by hoarding your personal knowledge of nursing? Is the fear of making a mistake so strong? Are we afraid to express or consider an opposing opinion? Do you dare to explore an untried idea or concept with others? The smoke screen of excuses-rather like the faint mask of silence covering the face of the nurse on the cover of this JOURNAL- seems to me to be nothing more than mental. The neophytes to OR nursing look to the AORN JOURNAL for ways of making a smooth ingress into the area of improved patient care. The staff nurse, who, through necessity, has been catapulted to the posi- tion of head nurse or supervisor looks to our JOURNAL for reinforcement and solutions to her new found problems. The established OR nurse is constantly looking to AORN JOURNAL for comparison or newer more workable methods and procedures. Shed your security blanket; eliminate the smoke screen and silencing mask; and get those thoughts down on paper! I cannot accept the excuse that nurses are not writers. AORN is equipped at headquarters to do the polishing of an article. Won’t you accept this challenge to share your knowledge? Unless you give if away knowledge will not be meaningful to you. Get involved-let the AORN JOURNAL department hear from you! U -Curo/ine Rogers, RN 12 AORN Journal

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Edi+o rial

The silencer-mask- is disposable.

Speak out - be heard - agree -disagee - debate - question - research - investi- gate - wrife!

Do any of these, but do get involved!

Involvement implies an inextricable asso- cation or concern with something. I have yet to hear an AORN member suy she is not concerned with nursing.

Why i s it, when 1 meet and talk to AORN members, I detect a wealth of knowledge which should be shared? This is unique knowledge, gleaned not easily, but through years of hard, painful trial and error work. This knowledge fairly oozes from their brains. Informal discussion releases a rush of dialogue, but few of these words ever get on paper for assimilation by others.

The most valuable, practical commodity in a human’s life i s experience. This commodity can never be bought; it must be ac- quired as a result of time well spent.

I wonder why it is that AORN members who possess this knowledge, put up a mental isolation barrier? I wonder: why not a sharing of this knowledge, a self-perpetuat- ing growth of ideas? Why not write for publication in the AORN JOURNAL?

Is integrity secured by isolationism? Does your professional reputation remain invi- olate by hoarding your personal knowledge of nursing? Is the fear of making a mistake so strong?

Are we afraid to express or consider an opposing opinion? Do you dare to explore an untried idea or concept with others? The smoke screen of excuses-rather like the faint mask of silence covering the face of

the nurse on the cover of this JOURNAL- seems to me to be nothing more than mental.

The neophytes to OR nursing look to the AORN JOURNAL for ways of making a smooth ingress into the area of improved patient care. The staff nurse, who, through necessity, has been catapulted to the posi- tion of head nurse or supervisor looks to our JOURNAL for reinforcement and solutions to her new found problems. The established OR nurse is constantly looking to AORN JOURNAL for comparison or newer more workable methods and procedures.

Shed your security blanket; eliminate the smoke screen and silencing mask; and get those thoughts down on paper!

I cannot accept the excuse that nurses are not writers.

AORN is equipped at headquarters to do the polishing of an article. Won’t you accept this challenge to share your knowledge? Unless you give if away knowledge will not be meaningful to you.

Get involved-let the AORN JOURNAL

department hear from you! U -Curo/ine Rogers, RN

12 AORN Journal