At the 2001 Congres in Dallas, the ...

At the 2001 Congres in Dallas, the House of Delegates approved a motion that the AORN Board of Directors investigate, cause to grow and pilot test a portable perioperative workshop for RN and report their progres to the 2002 House of Delegates. The House of Delegates' discussion onward this issue centered around the importance of recruiting RN into the OR, using the workshop as a way to provide information regarding perioperative nursing and potentially help alleviate the nursing shortage. This exemplar of program would introduce a variety of RN to the OR.

The Board appointed the following task force members to this project: Debra Fawcett, RN BSN M chair; Mary Jo Steiert, RN CNOR; Rick Barber, RN M CNOR; Patricia imprisons RN, MHA, CNOR; Kathleen Gaberson, RN PhD CNOR; Kathryn Schroeter RN M MA, CNOR; and Katherine Halverson Carpenter, RN MBA, CNOR, staff consultant. Hospitals across the nation were take a view ofed regarding their interest in a three-day portable perioperative workshop. The overwhelming rejoinder indicated that a three-day workshop would not be adequate to hide the necessary content needed. Also, to be ascribed to staffing issues, hospitals could not afford to propel staff members to a three-day workshop.

Based onward this survey, the target audience for the pilot is nursing bookish mans The workshop will be pilot standarded on Wednesday, April 24, at the 2002 Congres The appease will feature principles of asepsis, gowning/gloving, prepping/draping, principles of sterilization, and professional involvement. The peace of the workshop also applies to nursing practice in all practice settings. Interactive learning is planned for the afternoon.

Based forward feedback received from nursing close examiners there is an opportunity to use the material for marketing perioperative nursing in the nursing drill curricula; a product could be expanded for schools of nursing or for use on clinical sites. The portable perioperative workshop scheme may generate interest in perioperative nursing in close examiners who may have minimal exposing to the OR in their clinical experience. It also is possible that a program could be lay opened for chapters to use as a contact hour activity or at career fairs.

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