Perioperative Career and Recruitment Insights

A practical first-week plan for theatre managers: five things to have ready before a new starter arrives, and one action you can take on Monday.

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.

Every theatre staff room has a kettle and an opinion. Tea or coffee at the break? Pick your side and tell us what else is on the table.

Mary Lambie directed New Zealand nursing from 1931 to 1950. She took training out of the wards, built the first postgraduate courses for registered nurses, and set the system every New Zealand theatre nurse still trains and registers inside.

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.

Clogs or runners for theatre? One health service procedure sets what theatre footwear must do. Pick your side and tell us why.

A nurse returning to theatre after time away can bring real experience back to your team. One check belongs before the offer: recency of practice.

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.

Suction, monitor tones, diathermy, the door. An Australian study measured the noise of common theatre instruments. Which sound follows you home?

Five interview questions for theatre managers that show how someone works in a team.

A short habit with published guidance behind it: introduce every team member by name and role at the briefing and the time out.

Rachael Pratt ran a dressing ward and small theatre at a casualty clearing station in France, was wounded tending a patient in 1917, and became one of only seven Australian nurses awarded the Military Medal. Her story, and the perioperative link.

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.

Hundreds of reference calls and interviews with theatre nurses point to the same pattern on difficult surgeons: pre-empt, stay calm, and never carry it home.

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.