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Archive > October, 2007 Vol. VIII, No. 10

Behind Closed Doors

Are You Ready for Some Football?

Paula Watkins, RN, CNOR

I never used to think about work while watching football. Mostly I'd think about the Arkansas Razorbacks' 10 Cotton Bowls, 13 Southwest Conference championships and 21 wins over Texas. But I've started to see how the sport could relate to OR nursing and how a day in surgery might be like the big game. Can you see it? As the clock ticks away, the (surgical) team lines up on the (sterile) field ? I wonder if there's an OR fight song?

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