Perioperative Career and Recruitment Insights

What the 450 hour recency rule means, how a gap looks to a hiring manager, and the words to use when you return to theatre nursing after a career break.

Three live Scrub Scout Nurse roles in three states, three very different pay ranges. What they show, what they leave out, and the questions to ask before you move.

Where your notice period comes from, how to hand over your lists and the words to use, so you leave on good terms and keep your references.

Two live Scrub Scout Nurse adverts, two very wide pay ranges. What a theatre nurse job description tells you, and the questions to ask before you apply.

22 of the 45 live perioperative nursing roles we are advertising include part-time hours. What 0.5, 0.6 and 0.8 FTE mean for your week, your leave and your pay.

The four career tracks open to scrub scout, anaesthetic and recovery nurses in Australia and New Zealand: clinical, leadership, education and cross-border.

How scrub scout, anaesthetic and recovery nurses can prepare for a hospital interview: STAR answers, video call basics and ten questions worth asking the panel.

What a Nurse Unit Manager looks for in the first half page of a scrub scout, anaesthetic or recovery nurse CV, and the one thing never to invent.

Four sets of questions scrub scout, anaesthetic and recovery nurses can use to check whether their current theatre role is still building their career.

How the anaesthetic nurse and scrub scout nurse roles differ in theatre, and what live Australian adverts show for pay in each.

What a theatre coordinator does, what employers ask for, and how one advertised Queensland role is paid, for scrub scout, anaesthetic and recovery nurses.

What theatre nurse on-call usually involves, how the Nurses Award 2020 pays recall and rest breaks, and the questions to ask before you accept a role.

What a robotic theatre team lead does in New Zealand, the experience the role asks for, the RNFSA pathway, and what one live Auckland role pays.

What an enrolled nurse in theatre can do, the medication notation that decides anaesthetic and PACU roles, award pay rates and live roles open to ENs.

Caseload, pace, roster and pay: how a day surgery nurse role compares with main theatre for scrub scout nurses, using live day surgery roles in Australia.

What a cath lab nurse does in each case, what labs look for when they hire, and how theatre nurses move across into the cardiac catheter laboratory.

What an endoscopy nurse does day to day, what hospitals look for when they hire, and how theatre nurses move across into endoscopy.

This week's Theatre Careers Bulletin sets out where live, advertised theatre nurse jobs in Australia sit by state and specialty, from scrub scout to CSSD and leadership roles.