title: OR experiences are for student nurses.
abstract: 1. The media, lack of appropriate socializing comments regarding clinical nursing specialties and unavailable rotations may contribute to a student nurse's negative conception of RNs who work in the OR care environment. 2. Developing a project of this kind has informal and formal parameters. Informal parameters are based on becoming familiar with OR constructs; formal parameters are established by reviewing the mission statement and philosophy of both the nursing education program and that of the health-care institution. 3. Nonprivate, non-parochial, university-affiliated agencies welcome student learning experiences and have the time, place and people resources to support them. However, private, for-profit or free-standing health-care agencies may require contracts as documentation of the goals and motivations for the activities.
authors.forename: L
authors.initials: L
authors.lastname: Brazen
mesh_terms: D004506:Education, Nursing; D006801:Humans; D009871:Operating Room Nursing / Q000193:education*; D010687:Philosophy, Nursing