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Implementing a Perioperative Nursing Elective in a Baccalaureate Curriculum
Author(s) -
Holmes Susan P.
Publication year - 2004
Publication title -
aorn journal
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.222
H-Index - 43
eISSN - 1878-0369
pISSN - 0001-2092
DOI - 10.1016/s0001-2092(06)60512-7
Subject(s) - perioperative nursing , perioperative , specialty , economic shortage , medicine , curriculum , nursing , medical education , psychology , family medicine , anesthesia , pedagogy , linguistics , philosophy , government (linguistics)
• PERIOPERATIVE NURSING UNITS are experiencing a critical shortage of trained RNs, and new nursing school graduates are unlikely to enter this specialty unless they have had experience in a perioperative environment during their clinical rotations. • IN COOPERATION WITH a local hospital, a school of nursing developed a perioperative elective with a clinical component. • THE PERIOPERATIVE ELECTIVE has received strong support from faculty members and hospital staff members, and students believe they have enhanced their individual clinical experience through participation in this course. AORN J 80 (November 2004) 902–910.