The Operating Theatre Journal

Saturday, 30 January 2010

Nurse suspended for sharing patient's surgery pics on Facebook

A nurse uploading pictures of patients undergoing surgery to Facebook, has been suspended from Glasgow's Southern General Hospital.

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Nurse on sex charges

Gavin Nicholson, 56, is alleged to have groped five women as they woke from anaesthetic at Washington's Spire Hospital.

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Sunday, 24 January 2010

New Operating Theatre Job Advertised

Theatre Nurse/ODP. RAF Medical Reserves.

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The Royal Society of Medicine: Forthcoming Meetings February

A list of forthcoming RSM meetings that you may find of interest. Please contact The RSM if you wish to attend or find out more information.

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Friday, 22 January 2010

NHS Constitution now Backed by Law

From 19th January 2010, all NHS organisations will be legally obliged to take account of the rights and pledges set out in the NHS Constitution.

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Wednesday, 20 January 2010

Operating department practitioner struck off for misconduct

Operating department practitioner Kevin Andrew Cook has been struck off the HPC Register for stealing quantities of controlled drugs from the Theatre Recovery Unit drug cabinet at Nuffield Health Bristol Hospital.

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Saturday, 16 January 2010

Fury Over Fine

AN operating theatre nurse, who parked on a main road so she could get to work the next morning, was slapped with a parking ticket - for not leaving her lights on.

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Wednesday, 13 January 2010

Do degrees mean nurses will not 'dirty' their hands?

The training changes that have given students the opportunity of getting a degree in nursing at university have provoked fears that the basic care of patients will suffer.

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Monday, 11 January 2010

Freeze causes operations to be cancelled

HEALTH chiefs at Basildon Hospital have been forced to cancel 26 scheduled operations due to the big freeze.

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Sunday, 10 January 2010

Arrest after drips sliced in hospital

A woman has been arrested after intravenous drips used in a hospital's child and female wards were sabotaged.

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Thursday, 7 January 2010

Hospital operating theatre a 'time bomb'

Durban - Patients' lives are being endangered by the lack of working air conditioners in the operating theatre at KwaZulu-Natal's Manguzi hospital, hospital officials said on Tuesday

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Employee absenteeism because of bad weather could cost £230 million

The Forum of Private Business (FPB) is warning that the cost of a single day of employee absenteeism because of the freezing winter conditions could be at least £230 million.

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