Perioperative Career and Recruitment Insights

A conversation I had recently has stayed with me. I asked a perioperative nurse why they were thinking about leaving. I expected the usual answers: salary, hours, career progression. Instead they said something much simpler. “Kate... I can't remember the last time anyone thanked me.” Sadly, I wasn't surprised, because I've heard versions of it countless times over the years. We all want to feel that we matter It doesn't matter whether you've been in theatre for three months o

Interviewing for a theatre nurse role in Australia or New Zealand? Eight common mistakes, and how to fix each one before you meet the panel.

Every day, I speak with nurses who bear their burdens in silence, weighed down by a profession that demands everything from them. A call today stirred something in me, urging me to shine a light on their struggles, as burnout is robbing healthcare of its brightest stars. If my words can ease the load for even one nurse, it will be worth the effort. Employers must take heed. Nurses in high-pressure units labour through gruelling shifts to deliver top-notch care to every patien

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.

Registration is recognised across the Tasman, but the anaesthetic bay and the way pay is set are not the same. What theatre nurses need to know before moving.

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.

She qualified in June 1908 and was handed the operating theatre at Napier Hospital within months. She left it for a tent on a paddock, because that was where her people were dying of typhoid.

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.