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OR experiences are for student nurses.

L Brazen
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1. The media, lack of appropriate socializing comments regarding clinical nursing specialties and unavailable rotations may contribute to a student nurse's negative conception of RNs who work in the OR care environment. 2. Developing a project of this kind has informal and formal parameters. Informal parameters are based on becoming familiar with OR constructs; formal parameters are established by reviewing the mission statement and philosophy of both the nursing education program and that of the health-care institution. 3. Nonprivate, non-parochial, university-affiliated agencies welcome student learning experiences and have the time, place and people resources to support them. However, private, for-profit or free-standing health-care agencies may require contracts as documentation of the goals and motivations for the activities.

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L Brazen. 1989. OR experiences are for student nurses.. https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/2922785/

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