I’m a 24-year-old Theatre Nurse working at the Royal Cornwall Hospital NHS Trust. I specialise in general and emergency. Here’s my story - about how I became a Theatre Nurse and what I do.
I am a charge nurse in a busy 11 theatre suite. This is what goes on behind the operating room door - an insight into theatre nursing by a Theatre Charge Nurse.
Theatre nursing is a varied sector with different specialities including scrub nurse, recovery nurse and anaesthetic nurse, all of whom could be described as a theatre nurse. We look at the different roles and how you get a theatre nurse job