Project Alpha Provides Opportunities to Promote Perioperative Nursing

Graybill-D’Ercole, Patricia

doi:10.1016/s0001-2092(06)63265-1

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“…One campaign was The Nurse Behind the Mask. 11 Although many of the ideas for highlighting perioperative nursing suggested by Graybill‐D'Ercole 11 (eg, holding career fairs, inviting local high school students to observe a surgical procedure via a remote monitoring system, describing the variety of roles in the perioperative setting) were present in our region, there was no evidence of an increase in the number of graduate nurses seeking a perioperative career path. In addition, although the Project Alpha activities that we reviewed typically had both a theoretical and a clinical component, we were striving for a much more in‐depth exposure to perioperative nursing in a required clinical course.…”

Section: Overview Of the Educational Programmentioning

confidence: 87%

Preparing the Next Generation of Perioperative Nurses

Chappy¹,

Madigan²,

Doyle³

et al. 2015

AORN Journal

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Perioperative nursing faces a workforce crisis. There are too few perioperative nurses entering the workforce to replace those who will reach retirement age. Further, the costs of orienting perioperative nurses is high, and turnover rates in the first year after graduation are significant. To address these issues, nursing leaders at Theda Clark Medical Center, Neenah, Wisconsin, and the University of Wisconsin Oshkosh College of Nursing partnered with local medical centers to form a precepted clinical immersion program intended to orient senior baccalaureate nursing students to the perioperative setting. The students were hired after graduation, and the cost savings for orienting each new employee was estimated at $16,000 to $25,000 per student. Other benefits include identifying students who are and are not a good fit for perioperative nursing. The collaboration of health care and academic leaders is one solution for addressing the perioperative nursing workforce crisis.

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Section: Overview Of the Educational Programmentioning

confidence: 87%

Preparing the Next Generation of Perioperative Nurses

Chappy¹,

Madigan²,

Doyle³

et al. 2015

AORN Journal

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“…The underlying reasons for the theatre nurses' follow-up visit, introduced at the department, were influences from the USA's perioperative nursing practice, which redefined the theatre nurses' occupational role and introduced the conception care [1][2][3]. This development has been focusing on pre-, intra-, and postoperative care, which, among other things, led to the preoperative and postoperative, visits which were introduced [4][5][6].…”

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Cardiac Surgery Patients’ Evaluation of the Quality of Theatre Nurse Postoperative Follow-Up Visit

Falk-Brynhildsen

Nilsson

2009

European Journal of Cardiovascular Nursing

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Theatre nurses at the Department of Cardiothoracic Surgery in Orebro, Sweden, have since 2001 routinely conducted a follow-up visit to postoperative cardiac patients. A model with a standardized information part and an individual-caring conversation including both a retrospective and a prospective part designed the visit. The purpose of this study was to evaluate the quality of the postoperative follow-up visit conducted by the theatre nurses and find out if the quality was related to gender or type of admission. The method was prospective and explorative, including 74 cardiac surgery patients who had had a postoperative follow-up visit by a theatre nurse in Sweden. The instrument measuring quality, from the patient's perspective, measured the quality of the visit, and consisted of 16 items modified to suit the study. The results showed an overall high quality rating, with statistically significant higher scores for six items between patients who had undergone emergency surgery, in comparison with elective patients. When comparing gender, women had statistically significant higher scores in two items. In conclusion, this postoperative follow-up visit by the theatre nurse was a valuable and useful tool especially for the patients who had undergone emergency surgery. In the follow-up visit the theatre nurse creates a caring relationship by meeting the patient as an individual with his/her own experience and needs for information about the surgery, intra and postoperative care, and recovery.

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Project Alpha Provides Opportunities to Promote Perioperative Nursing

Cited by 2 publications

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Preparing the Next Generation of Perioperative Nurses

Preparing the Next Generation of Perioperative Nurses

Cardiac Surgery Patients’ Evaluation of the Quality of Theatre Nurse Postoperative Follow-Up Visit

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