2024 Volume 44 Pages 199-207
Purpose: To clarify the growth process of nurses who requested job rotation from the operating room to surgical wards by making use of their operative nursing experience.
Methods: Semi-structured interviews were conducted with 10 nurses, who had been assigned to the operating room for more than 5 years immediately after graduation, and then reassigned to the surgical wards due to job rotation upon their request. The obtained data were analyzed using the M-GTA.
Results: The nurses after job rotation from the operating room were [realizing that they could not acquire sufficient nursing skills in the operating room] and made [efforts to resolve the gap between their years of nursing experience and current situation]. And through [experience of making use of specialized operative nursing skills], they came to [realizing the value of their own existence as a person with operative nursing experience] and developed [a deeper nursing perspective]. The experience in both the operating room and the hospital ward led to [visualization of a career in which they can leverage their strengths].
Conclusions: After job rotation from the operating room, the nurse utilize their specialized skills in operative nursing to grew into nurses with the ability to practice perioperative nursing with interacting with patients and nursing staff. This growth process may be a useful career development model for operating room nurses.
