When Resources Are Scarce, Consider Growing Your Own

ABSTRACT
- MANY HEALTH CARE FACILITIES have difficulty finding and hiring properly trained perioperative nurses.
- EDUCATORS WHO ARE TRYING to alleviate this problem should consider setting up their own programs to educate new RNs and experienced nurses from other health care areas into the perioperative arena.
- THIS ARTICLE PROVIDES basic information about setting up a perioperative nursing education program, including how to select the participants and preceptors and how to structure the program. AORN J 82 (August 2005) 244-249.