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IN MEMORIAM
Joan Faller Koehler, RN AORN Past-President
Joan Koehler, national President of AORN from 1983 to 1984, passed away February 22, 2010, in Phoenix, Arizona. During her career, she worked as a surgical nurse for Fifth Avenue Gynecologists and created and operated Perioperative Plus Associates, a nursing education company. Koehler joined AORN in 1972. She was active in the Phoenix and the Valley chapter as an ofcer and delegate to Congress, and she served on several
national committees. She was actively involved in developing certication for perioperative nurses and was chair of the Certication Board from 1979 to 1980. In 1980, she was elected to the AORN Board of Directors, and...