title: Perioperative nursing orientation. A primer for designing your own program.
abstract: The orientation program for OR nurses at Mount Sinai Medical Center has been in place for more than two years. Orientees have given consistently favorable evaluations of the program, and many of them have commented that this was the first real OR orientation that they had received in their careers. Staff acceptance of new employees has improved, and our retention rate of new employees is promising. New nurses who have been through the orientation program now can provide staffing in the OR so that more experienced nurses can participate in the RN first assistant training program that we have introduced. A structured orientation program ensures consistency in the information given to new employees. We continue to revise and improve the program based on changes in the workplace and orientees' evaluations. We believe that the time spent designing our program has paid off well in employee satisfaction and retention--in management terms, the return on investment has been good.
authors.affiliation: Mount Sinai Medical Center, Miami Beach, FL.
authors.forename: J
authors.initials: J
authors.lastname: Strauss
mesh_terms: D002983:Clinical Competence; D003479:Curriculum; D005069:Evaluation Studies as Topic; D005431:Florida; D006801:Humans; D007318:Inservice Training / Q000458:organization & administration / Q000592:standards; D009871:Operating Room Nursing / Q000193:education*; D009873:Operating Rooms / Q000592:standards*; D013663:Teaching / Q000379:methods