title: Demystifying the OR for baccalaureate nursing students.
abstract: Students in baccalaureate nursing programs often receive minimal exposure to specialty areas such as perioperative nursing, and new nurses may therefore fail to consider perioperative nursing as a potential practice area. Instructors from one college of nursing partnered with local hospitals to develop a program to introduce baccalaureate nursing students to the perioperative nursing specialty. This partnership program had positive outcomes for the college, the health care facilities, and the students. Six nursing students pursued careers in perioperative nursing after graduation.
authors.affiliation: University of Oklahoma College of Nursing, Oklahoma City, USA.
authors.forename: Kathy
authors.initials: K
authors.lastname: Cooper
authors.forename: Beverly
authors.initials: B
authors.lastname: Bowers
mesh_terms: D004508:Education, Nursing, Baccalaureate; D006801:Humans; D007373:Interinstitutional Relations; D008611:Mentors; D009825:Oklahoma; D009873:Operating Rooms; D013527:Perioperative Nursing / Q000193:education*; D012579:Schools, Nursing