This is an advanced certificate program designed to provide Registered Nurses (RN’s), graduate nurses, and nursing students, an introduction to and experiential learning opportunities in perioperative nursing. Students will be exposed to the knowledge and skills required to provide safe, patient-centered care to patients having surgical intervention during the preoperative, intraoperative, and postoperative periods. Upon completion, students will be prepared for an entry-level operating room staff nurse position. Graduates are also eligible to join the Association of PeriOperative Nurses (AORN), and, following two years of operating room experience, may sit for the CNOR exam, an accredited credentialing exam for perioperative registered nurses.