Nurses receive specialty training in the perioperative setting
Staff Development Weekly: Insight on Evidence-Based Practice in Education, October 18, 2007
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To provide nurses with experience in a field that commands highly-specialized training, an Indiana university is offering students a hands-on perioperative course.
The elective course at Valparaiso University in Valparaiso, IN, allows students in their junior or senior year to experience what being a surgical nurse involves. Students also take part in a clinical component, which is completed at either LaPorte Hospital in LaPorte or Saint Anthony Medical Center in Crown Point.
The university used to offer courses in OR training between 1985 and 1995, and the classes have been reinstated due to the recent demand for perioperative nurses. According to the Association of periOperative Registered Nurses (AORN), about 35% of the country's 160,000 nurses working in the surgical setting are getting set to retire.
Source: The Post-Tribune (IN)
Other articles of interest:
Michigan task force outlines strategies to help ease nursing shortage
North Carolina college, hospital partner to improve student training
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