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The Invisible Nurse-Behind the Scenes in an Australian OR

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posted on 2024-09-17, 02:08 authored by Rosalind BullRosalind Bull, MA Fitzgerald
THE DWINDLING NUMBER of RNs choosing to work in the OR has been caused by many factors, such as restricted undergraduate exposure to the perioperative experience and fewer postgraduate opportunities. PRESSURE TO IDENTIFY alternative health care workers to replace RNs in the OR is escalating to a point where the role of the perioperative RN, as currently understood, is threatened. FINDINGS from an Australian ethnographic study suggest that both patients and non-nursing colleagues have limited appreciation of the contribution that perioperative nurses make. THE NEED FOR NURSES to take a proactive stance on this subject is discussed within the context of professional and structural change.

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Publication title

AORN Journal

Volume

79

Issue

4

Pagination

810-823

ISSN

0001-2092

Department/School

Nursing, UTAS Centre for Rural Health

Publisher

Elsevier Inc.

Publication status

  • Published

Place of publication

Denver USA

Socio-economic Objectives

200307 Nursing

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