Creating an Inviting Perioperative Learning Experience

- NURSING SCHOOL CURRICULA do not typically include a perioperative nursing course, but implementing innovative teaching strategies and using inviting behaviors during a perioperative elective course can help nursing students develop an interest in becoming perioperative nurses.
- IN A PERIOPERATIVE NURSING ELECTIVE course taught in Abilene, Tex, one faculty member used principles of invitational theory to improve the course experience for nursing students.
- AT THE END OF THE COURSE, students completed a 20-item survey about the invitational learning experience. Data reflected a high level of success with the course techniques used, and student responses indicated that they learned more than they had expected to and would recommend the course to other students. AORN J 85 (February 2007) 354-366. © AORN, Inc, 2007.