Thursday, March 6, 2008

Nursing News from Down Under

Nurses are a cut above.

IS BEING a theatre nurse just handing a surgeon instruments: ‘Scalpel. Retractor. Swab,’? Not according to Dianne Durrington, a perioperative nurse who works at Hawkesbury Hospital.

A perioperative nurse is an operating theatre nurse, but the term indicates that the role encompasses the time both before and after the operation as well.

read the whole article from hawkesbury

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