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Trained And Unqualified

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  25 February 2009

Catherine Heap
Affiliation:
Countess of Chester Hospital The Development of the Role of the Theatre Support Worker as Pre-Operative Patient Escorts at the Countess of Chester NHS Trust.
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Extract

In a recent publication by the National Association of Theatre Nurses (NATN); their Chairman Vincent (1996, p.3) suggested “Support workers, when appropriately trained, provide tremendous support to operating department professionals, assisting with the provision of a good, cost effective service, cooperating to develop new ways of working in this rapidly changing environment to respond to the needs of the patient and the service.”

Type
Research Article
Copyright
Copyright © British Association of Anaesthetic and Recovery Nursing 2001

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