What exactly is an OR Nurse?

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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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Specializes in OR, Nursing Professional Development.

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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Specializes in OR, ER, Med-Surg, ICU, CCU, Home Health.

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. :D

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