Building Perioperative Nursing Research Teams—Part I

Perioperative nurses can use nursing research to acquire skills and knowledge to formulate independent judgments, make critical decisions, and become nurse scholars. This article, which is the first in a two‐part series, describes the use of the model of experiential learning developed by David A. Kolb, PhD, to facilitate a team approach to perioperative nursing research. The second article in the series will focus on constraints and enablers to conducting and using nursing research in perioperative care settings and will provide suggestions for perioperative nurse managers to facilitate clinical research. AORN J 65 (Feb 1997) 396‐401.