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	Archive > July, 2005	Vol. VI, No. 7

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We Are the Wired

Dan O'Connor, Editor-in-Chief

Dan O Kelly White, RN, BSN, CNOR, is surrounded by computer monitors. A wall-mounted plasma screen above her for patient tracking. A computer on wheels - or COW, as it's known - for perioperative charting to her the right. And a PC notebook in her hands for live look-ins at her six inpatient ORs and four outpatient ORs.

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