NURSING: GATEWAY TO OPERATING ROOM PROGRAM
The Gateway to Operating Room nursing is a comprehensive,
six month long orientation program that is open
to both “new to practice” Nurses as well
as RNs who do not have OR experience. During
this program, you will learn the fundamental
principles of OR nursing through both classroom instruction
and clinical experiences.
To be eligible for the
Gateway to Operating Room Nursing, you must have
a BSN, eligibility for a Pennsylvania RN license
and a passion to be a Nurse in the operating
room.
Gateway to the Operating Room is a comprehensive program
that consists of five weeks of classroom instruction,
30 hours of instruction in a clinical skills
lab and 12 to 16 weeks of structured clinical
experiences in each of our 12 specialty areas.
Through
lectures, discussions, videos, self-learning
modules and clinical experience, you will develop these
and other core competencies:
- Pre-operative assessments
- Basic OR case prep skills
- Creation and maintenance of sterile fields
- Scrub and circulate during procedures
- Complete intra-operative documentation
- Perform intra-operative scrub and circulating duties
- Demonstrate correct processing of specimens
- Correct positioning of patients and equipment
- Safe care and handling of surgical instruments
- Safe use of specialty equipment needed for surgery
- Airway management, anesthesia safety and malignant
hyperthermia management
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