Where, oh where, are the OR nurses?

Dunn, Debra

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“…7,10,12,13 Nurses do not develop an interest in working in clinical settings to which they are not exposed in their nursing program. 2 Because students are denied perioperative specialty experience in their nursing programs, many do not know of the opportunities that this clinical area offers. 10,12 We found this to be true in our program evaluation as well.…”

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“…Because of the severe nursing shortage in perioperative departments across the United States, perioperative leaders are exploring the option of hiring recently graduated nurses without prior perioperative experience and preparing them to work in the perioperative setting. 1,2 A lack of classroom information and clinical experiences focused on perioperative nursing may lead recently graduated nurses to question the suitability of perioperative nursing as a career. 2 In addition, during the 6-to 12-month onboarding process, these nurses may decide that perioperative nursing is not what they expected and then transfer to a more suitable area.…”

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“…1,2 A lack of classroom information and clinical experiences focused on perioperative nursing may lead recently graduated nurses to question the suitability of perioperative nursing as a career. 2 In addition, during the 6-to 12-month onboarding process, these nurses may decide that perioperative nursing is not what they expected and then transfer to a more suitable area. As a result, the time and resource expenditures and turnover may cause a financial burden for the organization.…”

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Evaluation of a Redesigned Perioperative Specialty Elective to Address the Perioperative Nursing Shortage

Reuter¹,

King²

2021

AORN Journal

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A lack of targeted perioperative academic preparation may have led to not enough nursing graduates entering and staying in the perioperative field. This deficit and a large portion of the workforce approaching retirement age have contributed to a perioperative nursing shortage. In collaboration with an associated medical center, a college of nursing in the midwestern United States offered and evaluated a redesigned perioperative elective for student nurses. After implementation, interviews and focus groups were used to determine the effect on the student nurses’ confidence, their progression through orientation after graduating and being hired into the perioperative department, and the perioperative department’s retention rates. Recently graduated nurses with perioperative educational experience have a better understanding of the role of a perioperative nurse. Increasing prelicensure student exposure to the perioperative clinical environment is associated with positive outcomes for the department, organization, nurses, and patients. Similar results in other specialties may be possible.

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Evaluation of a Redesigned Perioperative Specialty Elective to Address the Perioperative Nursing Shortage

Reuter¹,

King²

2021

AORN Journal

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“…Authors have speculated that the perioperative nursing shortage is the result of nurses retiring and nursing schools removing perioperative content from their curricula in favor of more general nursing content. [2][3][4][5][6][7][8] Undergraduate nursing school leaders made these curriculum changes in response to the American Association of Colleges of Nursing's The Essentials of Baccalaureate Education for Professional Nursing Practice document and the push to produce generalists with greater medical and surgical competence. 9 Because the content of perioperative nursing has been removed from the curriculum, it limits the graduating nurse from having knowledge of the specialty.…”

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“…Therefore, many graduating nurses do not consider the perioperative specialty as a career option. [4][5][6][10][11][12] The literature describing the benefits and necessity of offering a perioperative experience has increased. Many authors agree that creating academic partnerships between colleges of nursing and hospitals to increase exposure to perioperative content and experiences in undergraduate nursing programs is an essential component of combatting the nursing shortage in the specialty.…”

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A Perioperative Specialty Elective to Address the Perioperative Nursing Shortage: Student Perspectives and Outcomes

Reuter¹,

King²

2023

AORN Journal

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To help solve the perioperative nursing shortage, it is imperative that health care leaders understand why students choose or do not choose to pursue a career in perioperative nursing. In May 2021, we published the results of a specialty elective course evaluation from a leadership and perioperative services personnel perspective; in the current article, we examine the same program from the students’ perspective. We distributed survey links to undergraduate nursing students to evaluate their perioperative knowledge before and after completing the course. Students reported large gains in knowledge, critical thinking, teamwork, and confidence at course completion, but the posttest mean number of students with an interest in pursuing perioperative nursing was lower than the pretest mean. This realization is perceived as a positive outcome of the perioperative elective course because it may lead to a decrease in turnover among newly hired perioperative nurses.

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A Student Nurse Experience of an Intervention that Addresses the Perioperative Nursing Shortage

2015

Journal of Perioperative Practice

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Registered nurses are the largest group of professionals in the global healthcare system. The number of nurses is estimated to be 19.3 million throughout the world (Flinkman et al 2013). In the United States the need for registered nurses is growing. It has been predicted that 260,000 positions for registered nurses will remain unfilled by the year 2025 (Harris et al 2014) with a shortage of registered nurses projected to spread across the United States between 2009 and 2030 (Juraschek et al 2012). Compounding the projected nursing shortage is the increased attrition rate, which is as high as 61% within the first year (Pine & Tart 2007). There are several reasons for this shortage including supply and demand issues, projected changes to healthcare and the aging population. Additionally, the number of college graduates who have majored in nursing has not met the demand (Dunn 2014).

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Where, oh where, are the OR nurses?

Abstract: CNOR tion to the BSN as entry into practice, the rapid growth of knowledge in medicine, nursing research, and technology needs to be incorporated into nursing This is part 1 in a series discussing the shortage of OR nurses in the workforce.

Cited by 4 publications

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Evaluation of a Redesigned Perioperative Specialty Elective to Address the Perioperative Nursing Shortage

Evaluation of a Redesigned Perioperative Specialty Elective to Address the Perioperative Nursing Shortage

A Perioperative Specialty Elective to Address the Perioperative Nursing Shortage: Student Perspectives and Outcomes

A Student Nurse Experience of an Intervention that Addresses the Perioperative Nursing Shortage

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