Demise of nursing in the UK: ODPs are not the cause

摘要

I myself am an Operating Department Practitioner. I qualified some years ago in the UK and am now working within New Zealand under the role of an anaesthetic technician, and can without a shadow of a doubt state that the authors are clearly ignorant of the role of an ODP, and most probably should retire as their comments are made on laughable and at best dodgy references which are clearly from an era when anaesthetists smoked cigars whilst manually pumping the gases and the surgeons didn't wash their hands between patients.