Perioperative Nursing Fellowship

As Mount Sinai grows, so does our legacy of caring

Located in the heart of Miami Beach, overlooking the breathtaking intracoastal waterway, Mount Sinai Medical Center is dedicated to providing exceptional health care to our diverse community enhanced through innovation, technology, teaching, and research.

Mount Sinai is South Florida's largest private independent not-for-profit hospital with 672 beds, and a tight-knit community of more than 4,000 employees.

We provide world-class care:

• Named one of America's 250 Best Hospitals for 2020 and 2021 by Healthgrades, positioning Mount Sinai among the top 5% of hospitals in the nation for overall clinical excellence.
• A pioneer in innovative medical research in areas such as cardiology, cancer, memory disorders and pulmonary diseases
• The BEST cardiac surgery survival rate in Florida
• A new seven-story Surgical Tower with 154 all-private rooms and patient centered technology promotes an exceptional patient experience

Our Periop 101 program is designed to empower and nurture you, creating a smooth transition to become a Main O.R. Registered Nurse. Our goal is to guide you from day one towards a meaningful and successful career in healthcare.

Periop 101: A Core Curriculum is designed to provide registered nurses who have no previous experience in the O.R. with a basic knowledge and clinical skills necessary to function independently in a perioperative nursing position. At the completion of this course, it is expected that the nurse will be able to practice independently at the beginning level in a perioperative position. What to expect upon completion:

• Compare the roles and responsibilities of multidisciplinary surgical team members in the preoperative, intraoperative, and postoperative areas.

• Apply the nursing process to identify and address the needs of the perioperative patient and family or support persons in order to provide a safe environment.

• Apply principles of aseptic and sterile technique in the perioperative environment including the processes involved in creating and maintaining a sterile field.

• Apply knowledge of safe patient care in the perioperative setting based on case studies and patient care assignments.

• Discuss the processes of cleaning, disinfection and sterilization of instrumentation and equipment.

• Apply safe medication administration practices based on knowledge of interventions and pharmacologic indications for drugs commonly utilized in the perioperative setting.

Qualifications:

• Graduated from an accredited school of Nursing.
• BLS.
• At least 1 year of Nursing experience.