Job titles and roles

Re: Job titles and roles

sem493 — Sat, 11 May 2013 23:07:01 GMT

Thank you all for your help, I will definitely give them a call to clarify the job role. I will let you know how it goes.

Re: Job titles and roles

bongo — Sat, 11 May 2013 17:55:58 GMT

I work in a referral centre and we have medicine nurses who rotate between medicine ward and procedures, surgery ward nurses who care for the surgery inpatients, theatre nurses who are responsible for the animal perioperatively including prep and dedicated ICU nurses. Hope this helps, although most places are different, I would enquire if I was you I'm sure they would rather you did that than apply for a job that you perhaps wouldnt like a little bit down the line because it wasn't what you were expecting

Re: Job titles and roles

Steph Worsley — Sat, 11 May 2013 16:26:56 GMT

I agree, call them to discuss things:

Where I am we have:

Patient Care nurses, these nurses care for the in-patients and day cases, administering meds etc no matter which service they have been admitted under the care of

Theatre or surgery nurses: these guys assist in theatre....scrub in where needed...monitor anaesthesia/sedations etc

However we also have service nurses, these are nurses specific to a discipline: imaging, cardio, internal medicine, derm, soft tissue surgery, ortho, neuro.

Other referral centres I know the nurses will rotate round everything so some time in wards, some time in theatre, some time with specific services.

I am the internal medicine nurse and my job is so varied, I deal with in-patients, day cases, sedations for imaging, organising the vets on service client care etc etc! Oh and not to mention the mountains of paper work I hhave to do LOL

Re: Job titles and roles

Helen Tottey — Sat, 11 May 2013 09:30:29 GMT

I would call them to ask. At least this way you have all the facts and speaking to someone would also give you a better impresion of the practice.

Calling and asking something you are not sure of demonstrates a good quality in that when you are not sure of something - you ask rather than guess!

I would also be confused by their description and a lot of times these descriptions are personal to the practice and not general profession terms

good luck