The Program

The Perioperative Residency Program is an eight- to nine-month training program for registered nurses each year in the early summer. The program consists of both classroom and clinical rotations through each specialty service. A one-month trial orientation with a preceptor will allow you to decide if the OR environment is right for you. Instruction includes state of the art specialized equipment, i.e. lasers, electrosurgical, laparoscopic equipment and an introduction to basic scrub principles in general and GYN services. A contractual agreement will be signed upon a decision to enter the residency program.

Surgery Highlights

• Expanding the frontiers of medicine with new procedures and practices
• Teaching hospital
• Operating Room residency for RN's
• Flexible scheduling
• 18 regularly scheduled suites and three alternating suites for surgery, Monday through Friday 
• Saturday, two suites and one trauma room
• Sunday, one pre-scheduled suite and one trauma room
• Central core staffed 24/7 at the area's only Level One trauma center
• Variety of specialty areas
• Pay for performance evaluations yearly

For More Information, call Christie West, RN, CNOR at 865.305.9108.