Have you ever really thought about surgical smoke and the effect it maybe having on your health? Are you aware of the specific masks available to protect us from inhaling carcinogens? Do you know what chemicals have been found in surgical plume? Are you aware that...
Have you ever wondered about the actual value of technology and how best to capture & decipher the benefits, it has over our profession? How does one decide which form of technology to welcome as opposed to deciding if it makes life more difficult & do...
Working as a part time university lecturer in addition to partaking in casual nursing shifts as an instrument & circulating nurse, I enjoy challenging my students with insightful forms of trivia. One such question I ask all of my perioperative students is, why are scrubs...
Is it me or has anyone else noticed how specialised we are becoming in the operating room. Besides all the technology it appears that us nurses are not as well rounded as we used to be. Having completed my training in a large trauma hospital I...