What does it take to become the best perioperative nurse you can be?
The HCA Perioperative Internship program utilizes the AORN Perioperative 101 program to provide the theoretical background for perioperative nursing. The Periop 101 program is based on AORN Recommended Practices for safe care of the patient undergoing surgical procedures in both inpatient as well as out-patient environments.
Clinical preceptorship in both the scrub and circulator roles of perioperative nursing occurs within the operating rooms in HCA hospitals in the various service lines of surgical specialties to include: General surgery, GYN, urology, ENT, plastics, orthopedics, pediatrics, neurosurgery, vascular and cardiac surgery to name a few. The novice perioperative nurse obtains important fundamentals of the basics in the specialty of perioperative nursing and takes their place in the OR after the six-month program.
Clinical preceptorship in both the scrub and circulator roles of perioperative nursing occurs within the operating rooms in HCA hospitals in the various service lines of surgical specialties to include: General surgery, GYN, urology, ENT, plastics, orthopedics, pediatrics, neurosurgery, vascular and cardiac surgery to name a few. The novice perioperative nurse obtains important fundamentals of the basics in the specialty of perioperative nursing and takes their place in the OR after the six-month program.