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Overlapping roles in the operating department

05 February 1997

Nursing Standard

Professional development

Nurses and operating department practitioners have been working alongside each other for some time and some may say that their roles are converging. Reasons for this...

Retaining and recruiting peri-operative nursing staff

08 October 1997

Nursing Standard

Conference focus: theatre nursing

An operating room running on a minimum of qualified staff with an untrained team member scrubbing up for major vascular operations is a worrying but not unheard of...

It does what it says on the cover

04 April 2001

Nursing Standard

Book Review

This book is exactly what it says it is - a review of everything to do with the internet using health care as a framework for working examples.

Something for everyone to bridge the theory-practice gap

14 September 1999

Nursing Standard

Book Review

This mammoth book must be one of the best bargains around. The only thing that detracts from an otherwise excellent manual is that it is written for an American...

NATN Standards and Recommendations for Safe Perioperative Practice

01 January 2005

Nursing Standard

Perspectives: reviews

This publication identifies standards and recommendations for practice in key areas of perioperative care. Sections include legal and ethical issues, risk...

Looking to the future

11 October 1995

Nursing Standard

Supplement theatre nursing

The future is what we are all interested in, whether it is because of personal needs or professional demands, and this year’s National Association of Theatre Nurses...

Back to the future

02 October 1991

Nursing Standard

Supplement theatre nursing

So much is happening in the nursing world that it is easy to start feeling a bit paranoid' about what 'they’ are going to do next, they' being the Government, the...

Revision surgery for joint replacements

05 October 1994

Nursing Standard

Clinical orthopaedics

Revision joint surgery is becoming an increasingly common operation. This article describes how the operation is carried out, the techniques available and the...

Perioperative Practice: Fundamentals of Homeostasis

30 October 2002

Nursing Standard

Book review

Every patient undergoing an operation is necessarily subjected to a physical and chemical assault on their body systems.

NATN Standards and Recommendations for Safe Perioperative Practice

26 January 2005

Nursing Standard

Book review

This publication identifies standards and recommendations for practice in key areas of perioperative care. Sections include legal and ethical issues, risk...