title: Alison Bell Memorial Award. The nurse as first assistant to the surgeon: is this a perioperative nursing role?
authors.affiliation: Ministry of Defence Hospital Unit, Frimley Park Hospital.
authors.forename: E
authors.initials: E
authors.lastname: Bernthal
mesh_terms: D006801:Humans; D007587:Job Description; D009871:Operating Room Nursing / Q000379:methods* / Q000458:organization & administration*; D009872:Operating Room Technicians / Q000458:organization & administration*; D010823:Physician Assistants / Q000458:organization & administration*; D017009:Professional Autonomy; D006113:United Kingdom