Editorial

A Historical Review of the AORN Journal

“…The AORN Journal —which was published originally as OR Nursing in 1960—began as a bimonthly publication in January 1963. In her first editorial, Virginia Rockwell, RN, explained that the goal of the Journal was to bring useful and current information to perioperative nurses 1 . In another editorial for that inaugural issue, AORN President Ethel West, RN, added that the mission of the Journal was to assist perioperative nurses in attaining better and safer care of patients in the OR 2 …”