title: Theatre nursing: the fight for survival.
abstract: The sense of threat operating department nurses have been feeling recently has been exacerbated by many of the newer nursing education programmes not defining clinical placements in theatre as a necessity for students. This, the author argues, will have far-reaching consequences which include a decline in the number of qualified nurses in the operating department, higher qualified nurse turnover and a decline in patient-care standards. Operating department nurses must be prepared to prove their worth in the increasingly competitive and cost-conscious clinical world.
authors.forename: A
authors.initials: A
authors.lastname: Brown
mesh_terms: D004506:Education, Nursing / Q000379:methods*; D006801:Humans; D009871:Operating Room Nursing / Q000639:trends*; D013338:Students, Nursing