Leveraging Academic-Clinical Partnerships to Create an Operating Room Nurse Pipeline

J Nurs Adm. 2021 Mar 1;51(3):168-172. doi: 10.1097/NNA.0000000000000989.

Abstract

This article describes an academic-clinical partnership program between a school of nursing and an American Nurse Credentialing Center Magnet®- and National Cancer Institute-designated Comprehensive Cancer Center based on a shared vision and multifaceted for optimal new graduate operating room (OR) recruitment and use of clinical partner resources. The program, now in its 3rd year, has a 100% retention rate among the cohorts. Implementing a multifaceted OR partnership program based on nursing theory is a strategy for workforce development to increase retention of new graduate OR nurses.

MeSH terms

  • Adult
  • Education, Nursing, Baccalaureate / organization & administration*
  • Female
  • Hospitals, Teaching / organization & administration*
  • Humans
  • Interinstitutional Relations*
  • Male
  • Middle Aged
  • National Institutes of Health (U.S.)
  • Nursing Staff, Hospital / education*
  • Operating Room Nursing / education*
  • Operating Room Nursing / organization & administration*
  • Organizational Objectives
  • Societies, Nursing / organization & administration*
  • United States
  • Workforce / organization & administration*