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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Perioperative nursing: a special nursing specialty.

The intraoperative phase of perioperative nursing practice is a special specialty, as it combines the nursing model and the collaborative model for specialization. As a nursing model, it focuses on the behavioral sciences, education, and nursing as a caring science. As a collaborative model, it requires skilled care with an additional knowledge base acquired from medicine and the behavioral and biological sciences. The nature of the operating room may distort the image, because although nurses work closely with other health care team members in diagnosing and treating patients, in this special specialty the scope of practice is uniquely nursing.

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