Where have all the student nurses gone?
Since the mid-eighties the elective allocation of student nurses to the operating department during their nurse education programme, has steadily diminished. Nursing programmes prior to 1988 usually incorporated a period of supervised learning of four to six weeks in theatres. During this time the student was expected to observe and participate in the care of the peri-operative surgical patient. The student was generally on rostered service and would be supervised by an experience Operating Department nurse.
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D002983:Clinical Competence; D003479:Curriculum; D004508:Education, Nursing, Baccalaureate; D006801:Humans; D013527:Perioperative Nursing / Q000193:education*; D017009:Professional Autonomy; D013338:Students, Nursing; D000078329:Workforce