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Article: Creating an inviting perioperative learning experience.
- Article from:
- AORN Journal
- Article date:
- February 1, 2007
- Author:
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Local hospitals are experiencing a shortage of perioperative nurses, and it is common knowledge that perioperative managers across the United States are looking for innovative ways to improve recruitment and retention of perioperative nurses. In addition, the average age of perioperative nurses has been increasing steadily, and many perioperative nurses are retiring. (1) This situation provides a rationale for seeking creative changes in nursing education and in how nursing students and new, younger perioperative nurses are treated.
Younger nurses can be valuable members of a perioperative team. Their positive attributes include being focused, having a desire to ...