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Thank you all for posting responses to my question. I also love workinjg in the OR and can not wait to do it as a nurse now instead of a surge tech. There is just so much to learn I learn something new everyday and rarely get board, well except for those occasions of being scrubbed for 5 to 6 hours at a time. Anyways I am worried about making the transition from tech to nurse though I feel that I am going to be missing out by not standing at the table, hopefuly I will be able to still scrub on occasion. I do think that there should be a more indepth focus on surgical nursing in nursing school. Thank You all again for responses.

:stone Hi all I am currently a nursing student at University at Buffalo and also a surgical tech at a pediatric hospital for five years now. To complete a requirement for my nursing ciriculum I need to pose a question to nursing professionals and recieve some responses. I would appreciate any feedback that you could give me thank you in advance. here is the question As we know many nursing education programs offer a limitted or no perioperative expierence content (Latz & Nordbye 2004). My question to you is do you feel that it is necessary to require expierence for new graduate nurses before entering the OR, or do you feel that a newly graduated RN could enter the OR without expierence and become a functional team member? Any imput you may have will be appreciated.