Study material scrub nurse?

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Hello,

I was just wondering if anyone knows of any good material to study to learn scrub nursing. I am working in the UK and everything Is just practice based but I am wondering whether their are books or textbooks I can study that are perhaps used in the US or Canada to train their scrub technicians. If you are a scrub tech what have you used to study from? Did you have an exam?

In the UK, we either qualify as a nurse and then if we want to scrub we get a job in a theatre, no extra study just a practical learning on the job type thing. No reading material or surgical instrument textbooks. If you want to work in theatres and scrub but don't want to be a nurse you can qualify as an ODP, but this also does not give you any help regarding the operations, instruments, scrub knowledge etc.

Looking to move to Canada/US in couple years, not sure how their scrub staff are taught so if their were any exams or tests or textbooks they had to read to become qualified I would be so appreciative if you could share this. I don't want to be really ill prepared when I try looking for a job, im imagining Canadian/American nurses have more exams for example they have the NCLEX for nursing, im worried I wont know enough. Can anyone help me?

Thank you

Lou

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Specializes in OR, Nursing Professional Development.

You could look into the Association of Surgical Technologists. It's going to be US-centric though.

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Ok, thank you so much I'm have a look! Appreciate your reply!

Lou

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