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
In our continuing series looking at the basic role of each specialist nurse, we’re looking at the job of the theatre nurse. Below we outline the different job functions a theatre nurse can have, either in the NHS or in the private sector.