title: Leaving the nest and joining the flock: OR residency programs and team mentoring.
abstract: RESIDENCY PROGRAMS and team mentoring provide an opportunity to use creativity and personal knowledge to educate nurses new to the specialty of perioperative nursing. SURGICAL TEAM MEMBERS can join together to help inexperienced nurses by offering support, providing feedback, giving advice, answering questions, and acting as an outlet for their frustrations. NEW CONFIDENCE and rapidly acquired skills allow new nurses to become contributing members of the education cycle as they begin to teach others what they have learned.
authors.affiliation: Tacoma General Hospital, Tacoma, WA, USA.
authors.forename: Lisa
authors.initials: L
authors.lastname: Morgenthaler
mesh_terms: D006801:Humans; D007397:Internship, Nonmedical; D008611:Mentors; D009746:Nursing, Team; D009871:Operating Room Nursing / Q000193:education*; D011231:Preceptorship