Implementing a Perioperative RN Training Program for Recent Graduates.
In 2010, nurse educators at one health care facility implemented a new program that emphasized placing new graduates in specialty areas, including the hemodialysis unit, the gastroenterology unit, and the OR. Managers in the OR faced staffing challenges because of the difficulty in recruiting and retaining experienced perioperative nurses and the expected retirement of a significant number of staff members. Surgical services managers agreed to participate in the new graduate program and decided to use AORN's Periop 101™ course and a series of monthly simulation training sessions to supplement the program and provide recently graduated nurses with a strong perioperative nursing foundation. In three years, a total of nine newly graduated RNs successfully completed the program. The three-year retention rate was 78%.
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Byrd
Linda
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Mullen
David
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Renfro
Theodore A
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Harris
D003479:Curriculum; D004511:Education, Nursing, Graduate / Q000458:organization & administration*; D013527:Perioperative Nursing / Q000193:education*; D010561:Personnel Staffing and Scheduling
OR; Periop 101; RN graduate nurse; orientation; perioperative workforce