Operating room or perioperative is noble work. These nurses are advocates for patient advocacy and safe care. They manage large amounts of responsibility, working with surgeons and anaesthetists directly, as well as educating patients and their families. Also, they’re integral to improving perioperative care by implementing evidence-based practices, pre-operative or intraoperative. So, how do you find OR and perioperative operating agency work in Birmingham, and what does the role entail?
OR nursing is an exciting and demanding job, involving huge amounts of collaboration with surgeons, nurse anaesthetists, ICU nurses, and PACU nurses.
Within the surgical nursing speciality, there are three roles you can take on:
- Scrub nurse. Scrub nurses work in the sterile field and need to know about all the supplies and instruments used, doing counts with the circular nurse.
- Circulating nurse. Circulating nurses assist with the positioning of patients, medication administration, collecting specimens, counting instruments and dressings, patient education, charting, operating warming devices, and updating families.
- RN first assistant. First assistant registered nurses aid the surgeon in controlling bleeding, exposing wounds, and suturing during the procedure.
Operating and perioperative nurse agency workers in Birmingham should have the ability to interact well with others in difficult situations, advocate for their patients and patient safety, possess emotional stability and empathy, critically think, accept and delegate responsibility, help with coordination of care, and have physical strength and stamina.
Grow as a perioperative nurse with OR RN agency work
Excitingly, there are advanced roles you can move into once you’ve gained adequate experience in the operating room. You could be a nurse manager (like a charge nurse), nurse executive, nurse instructor, nurse service and safety educator, advanced practitioner, nurse consultant, nurse service specialist, research nurse, or nurse business coordinator.
Proximity Healthcare helps you grow into an advanced nursing role every step of the way in your nurse agency work journey. We’ll also make sure you get to choose whether you work in a surgical hospital department, a surgical centre, a clinic, or a physician’s office.
Are you ready to work in a fast-paced and exciting environment where you get to interact with new technologies and advance perioperative care? Get in touch with Proximity Healthcare and click Register below for free help finding OR RN agency work in Birmingham.