Healthcare support workers and the scrubbed role.
The scrubbed role is highly valued amongst many theatre nurses. A survey by Roberts (1989) found that 61.9% of 147 nurses stated that they preferred the scrubbed role to an anaesthetic role (4.8%). There is more recent evidence that nursing still dominates the scrubbed role, with over 50% of 108 nurses surveyed stating that they only worked in the scrubbed area of the operating department (Hind 1997).
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Institute of Health and Community Studies, Bournemouth University.
D001291:Attitude of Health Personnel; D006801:Humans; D009728:Nursing Assistants; D009871:Operating Room Nursing / Q000458:organization & administration*; D010561:Personnel Staffing and Scheduling; D006113:United Kingdom