Perioperative Career and Recruitment Insights

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.

In August 1915 Grace Wilson came ashore on Lemnos to run the nursing side of a hospital with few tents, no beds and almost no water. This is her verified story.

One advert says $50 an hour, another says $100,000 a year. How to put a theatre nurse hourly rate and an annual salary on the same footing before you choose.

We asked theatre and perioperative staff across Australia and New Zealand why they left their last role. Pay was not near the top.

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

Salary packaging for nurses comes up constantly in conversations with theatre nurses weighing up a move, and it is still one of the most misunderstood parts of a job offer. Get it right and it can genuinely change your take-home pay. Overlook it, or simply not ask about it, and you may end up comparing two roles on headline salary alone when the real difference sits somewhere else entirely. This is general information, not financial advice, and every employer's scheme is diff

From a Civil War hospital corps aide to the highest-ranking African American officer in the US Army of his era, Allen Allensworth went on to found California's only African American-governed town. Part of Carejobz's Nurses Who Came Before Us series.

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.

Every week I look at the live scrub scout and anaesthetic nurse vacancies coming across my desk, and this week is worth talking about. Right now there are genuinely live, currently advertised scrub scout and anaesthetic nurse vacancies open across Queensland, New South Wales, Tasmania, Western Australia and South Australia, all at the same time. That spread tells you something about where perioperative nursing sits in the market today, and it is worth unpacking what it actual

The PACU and recovery nurse role is one of the most consistently advertised positions in perioperative nursing across Australia and New Zealand, yet it is often reduced to a single line on a position description: post-anaesthesia care. In practice the role carries its own skill set, its own pace and a genuine case for a career specialty in its own right, rather than a stop on the way to theatre. This bulletin sets out what the role actually involves, how it differs from ward-

Kate on why the nerves of starting a new perioperative role never fully disappear, and what actually helps in the first few months.

The verified story of Sister Alicia Mary Kelly, an Australian Army nurse awarded the Military Medal in 1917 for staying with her patients during sustained shelling at a Casualty Clearing Station.

Two of the clearest promotion pathways in perioperative nursing right now are the Associate Nurse Unit Manager (ANUM) role and the Clinical Nurse Manager role in theatres. Both sit above the scrub scout nurse and anaesthetic nurse levels, and both are currently open across Australian private hospitals, but the two roles are not the same job with a different title. Understanding what each one actually involves is the first step if you are considering the move from clinical the

Mary Adelaide Nutting built the structured, graded nurse training that every hospital specialty, including perioperative nursing, grew out of, and became the world's first professor of nursing in 1907.

Most theatre nurses do not resign from a theatre job over one bad day. By the time the resignation letter gets written, the decision has usually been building for months. The reason given at an exit interview is not always the reason underneath it. Before you resign from a theatre job, there is one question worth asking yourself honestly, because the answer changes what you should do next. The question I ask first When a theatre nurse tells me they are ready to resign, I ask

A counter offer arrives at the worst possible moment. You have already made the decision, already had the difficult conversation, and then your manager asks for a day to see what they can do. This is one of the most common things theatre nurses ring me about, and it is worth thinking through calmly rather than in the corridor between cases. I am not going to tell you never to accept one. Sometimes a counter offer is the right answer. But it deserves the same scrutiny you woul

The anaesthetic nurse role is one of the clearest specialist routes in perioperative nursing, and one of the least well explained. Most theatre nurses first meet it from the other side of the drape, as the person who has already settled the patient by the time the scrub team is gowned. This bulletin sets out what the anaesthetic nurse role actually involves, what hospitals across Australia and New Zealand ask for, and how scrub scout nurses move across. What the role covers A

Scrub scout nursing is often written about as one job. In practice the specialty you work in shapes your day more than almost anything else on the position description. The same title can mean forty short cases in an ophthalmology list or two long ones in general surgery, and the skills that make you good at one are not automatically the skills that make you good at the other. This bulletin looks at what different scrub scout nurse lists actually ask of you, and how to use th