In response to hospitals’ shortage of perioperative nurses, the cooperative project engaged two universities and eight hospitals in the L.A. region to implement an evidence-based academic-practice training model. When complete, the effort had trained and empowered 17 RNs to advance their careers — and fill needed positions — as perioperative nurses.
The industry-led approach aimed to meet workforce needs supporting professional advancement, career mobility, and retention of incumbent RNs – and to provide specialty training to a limited number of new graduate nurses.
HASC and its workforce partners were proud to share the successful results of this pilot — and to share a paper highlighting its findings, the Perioperative Specialty RN Training Pilot Project Final Report.