Addressing the Perioperative Nursing Shortage Via a Perioperative Nursing Preceptorship for Baccalaureate Nursing Students

Manz, Julie A.; Williams, Katherine; Jessen, Jennifer; Kirkpatrick, Amanda J.

doi:10.1002/aorn.13277

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“…Of note, students felt strongly that their communication and teamwork skills increased as did their confidence in their ability to perform nursing tasks independently (Table 3). The lowest‐scoring skill development area was in pharmacology, which aligns with the findings from other perioperative nursing preceptor and student survey results 16 …”

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“…The lowestscoring skill development area was in pharmacology, which aligns with the findings from other perioperative nursing preceptor and student survey results. 16 Survey respondents indicated that the resources and clinical experiences for their OR placement supported their overall experience in the program (Table 4). Specifically, both students and preceptors found that implementation of hands-on laboratories where students developed basic skills before they entered the OR environment was beneficial (Table 5), although two (22%) of the students noted that the laboratory on prepping and draping was not as helpful because the surgeons performed these tasks at the facility where they were placed.…”

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Perioperative Nurse Recruitment: An OR Placement Program for Fourth‐Year Nursing Students in Ontario

Zekveld¹,

Berquist²

2022

AORN Journal

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Nursing associations have predicted a worldwide shortage of perioperative RNs as more nurses reach retirement age. Additionally, the lack of perioperative exposure during undergraduate nursing programs is contributing to the failure to attract recently graduated nurses to this field. In 2019, multiple hospital sites within the St. Lawrence College network in Ontario, Canada, expressed difficulty recruiting perioperative RNs and expressed an interest in collaborating with the college to increase exposure to the perioperative specialty and recruit students to their ORs after graduation. The college has run a successful preceptor-supported OR placement program for fourthyear baccalaureate nursing students since 2019. Eleven out of thirteen students were hired into the OR after their 2020-2021 placement program. This article outlines the steps taken to initiate this program as well as results of a formal program evaluation conducted in 2021, including detailed feedback from participating students, preceptors, and leaders at the involved hospitals.

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Perioperative Nurse Recruitment: An OR Placement Program for Fourth‐Year Nursing Students in Ontario

Zekveld¹,

Berquist²

2022

AORN Journal

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“…The purpose of this study was to examine nursing career choices after graduation among individuals who completed a perioperative elective. Twenty‐five (38%) of the 65 participants who completed the perioperative elective entered the field after graduation, a finding that aligns with the literature indicating that exposure of nursing students to the field of perioperative nursing during their undergraduate studies may well contribute to their entry into the specialty 5‐12,16,27,31,32 . The situation variable 25 prevailed in the qualitative comments, but a case also can be made for its effect on the quantitative findings because of the variety of situations readily available to the students that exposed them to perioperative practice.…”

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“…Factors contributing to the current perioperative nursing shortage consist of academic concerns and issues associated with work environments. Academic factors in undergraduate nursing programs include a lack of specialty education (eg, didactic and clinical exposure to perioperative nursing), 5‐10 a lack of perioperative nurse faculty to teach content, 11 and the perception that the National Council Licensure Examination for Registered Nurses (NCLEX‐RN) does not include perioperative content and therefore it does not need to be included in the curriculum 12 …”

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An Examination of the Career Choices of Nursing Graduates After Completing a Perioperative Elective

Cox¹,

Rumble²,

McNelis³

et al. 2023

AORN Journal

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In light of the perioperative nursing shortage, academic leaders at a mid-Atlantic school of nursing and leaders of three health care systems implemented an academic-practice partnership with the goal of increasing interest in this specialty. Nursing researchers used a descriptive study design to collect data from nursing alumni who participated in the perioperative elective between 2017 and 2021. They found that 25 (38%) of 65 graduates who participated in the elective entered perioperative nursing and 38 (68%) of 56 graduates who answered a question on considering future employment as a perioperative nurse indicated they would do so regardless of their current employment status. Graduates who participated in the elective and experienced a perioperative capstone placement had low anticipated turnover scores and intended to remain in a perioperative position. Academic and health care leaders should consider academic-practice partnerships as a strategy to recruit and retain perioperative nurses.

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“…e high blood glucose of diabetic patients with traumatic calcaneal fractures may retard fracture healing, and the patients are predisposed to postoperative complications such as incisional infections, which compromise the recovery of foot function and the quality of life of the patients [1][2][3]. It has been suggested that the combination of perioperative targeted therapeutic interventions contributes to reducing postoperative complications and shortening the recovery time [4,5]. To this end, this study was conducted to assess the efficacy of targeted treatment in the perioperative management of diabetic patients with traumatic calcaneal fractures.…”

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The Efficacy of Targeted Perioperative Management for Diabetic Patients with Traumatic Calcaneal Fractures

Hao

Liu

et al. 2022

Evidence-Based Complementary and Alternative Medicine

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Objective. To assess the efficacy of targeted perioperative management for diabetic patients with traumatic calcaneal fractures. Methods. Between April 2020 and December 2020, 100 diabetic patients with traumatic calcaneal fractures treated in our institution satisfying the inclusion criteria were enrolled and assigned to receive either conventional treatment with surgery or plaster fixation (observation group) or targeted treatment with surgery or plaster fixation (experimental group) via the random number table method, with 50 patients in each group. All eligible patients were followed up for 1 year postoperatively. Outcome measures included length of hospital stay, recovery time, fracture healing, duration of postoperative wound drainage, complication rate, blood glucose, and treatment satisfaction. The Maryland score was used for the assessment of foot function. Results. The duration of postoperative wound drainage, length of hospital stay, and recovery time in the experimental group (3.63 ± 1.04 d, 12.13 ± 3.77 d, and 111.22 ± 16.24 d) were significantly shorter than those in the observation group (5.71 ± 2.34 d, 15.28 ± 4.42 d, 123.10 ± 22.82 d) ( P < 0.01 ). The experimental group obtained a markedly higher complete healing rate versus the observation group ( P < 0.001 ). A significantly lower complication rate was observed in the experimental group than in the observation group ( P < 0.05 ). The Maryland scores results were dichotomized into good (≥75 points) and poor (<75 points). The experimental group showed significantly higher Maryland scores good rate and treatment satisfaction versus the observation group ( P < 0.01 ). The experimental group patients were associated with better postoperative fasting glucose and 2 h postprandial glucose versus those in the observation group ( P < 0.05 ). Conclusion. Targeted treatment in the perioperative management of diabetic patients with traumatic calcaneal fractures significantly promotes the recovery of patients, reduces the incidence of complications, increases treatment satisfaction, and ameliorates the doctor-patient relationship.

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Addressing the Perioperative Nursing Shortage Via a Perioperative Nursing Preceptorship for Baccalaureate Nursing Students

Cited by 8 publications

References 19 publications

Perioperative Nurse Recruitment: An OR Placement Program for Fourth‐Year Nursing Students in Ontario

Perioperative Nurse Recruitment: An OR Placement Program for Fourth‐Year Nursing Students in Ontario

An Examination of the Career Choices of Nursing Graduates After Completing a Perioperative Elective

The Efficacy of Targeted Perioperative Management for Diabetic Patients with Traumatic Calcaneal Fractures

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