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What exactly is an OR Nurse?



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Sep 18, 2009 10:18 PM

What exactly is an OR Nurse?


When I hear someone talking about an OR nurse, or they generally talking about the nurses pre & post surgery? Or is an OR nurse actually in the operating room during the surgeries?


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Old Sep 18, 2009, 11:33 PM

Default Re: What exactly is an OR Nurse?
An OR nurse is the nurse in the actual operating room. Pre and post surgery nurses can be pre-op, PACU (recovery room) or post-op (typically day surgery). OR nurses can function as a circulator (not part of the sterile field) or scrub (part of the sterile field). There are many threads about what an OR nurse does in this forum- take a look around and explore!
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from BethCNOR
Old Sep 25, 2009, 11:25 AM

Default Re: What exactly is an OR Nurse?
I wrote an article titled "What do Operating Room Nurses Do?" Check it out. It's in the Articles tab. Hope this helps you. We do a lot.
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