A nurse who handles sterile equipment while assisting a surgeon during a surgical operation.
Example sentencesExamples
The scrub nurse assembles the hysteroscope and sheath and passes the remaining disposable supplies to the circulating nurse to begin the unit procedure setup.
During the clinical phase with preceptors, one of the new nurses pointed out that a scrub nurse was using suture packages to rectify an incorrect needle count.
Even the scrub nurse may be able to develop a relationship with the patient under these circumstances, as one nurse explains.
For example, advanced neurosurgery requires a neurosurgeon, an anesthesiologist, a neurophysiologist, a scrub nurse, and various nurses assuming other roles.
One difference is that most Taiwanese hospitals continue to have an RN circulating nurse and scrub nurse for each surgical patient.
I used it only intermittently, when the stress of my job as a scrub nurse in the OR was unbearable.
Definition of scrub nurse in US English:
scrub nurse
noun
A nurse who assists a surgeon by performing certain specialized duties during a surgical operation.
手术室护士
Example sentencesExamples
During the clinical phase with preceptors, one of the new nurses pointed out that a scrub nurse was using suture packages to rectify an incorrect needle count.
The scrub nurse assembles the hysteroscope and sheath and passes the remaining disposable supplies to the circulating nurse to begin the unit procedure setup.
I used it only intermittently, when the stress of my job as a scrub nurse in the OR was unbearable.
For example, advanced neurosurgery requires a neurosurgeon, an anesthesiologist, a neurophysiologist, a scrub nurse, and various nurses assuming other roles.
Even the scrub nurse may be able to develop a relationship with the patient under these circumstances, as one nurse explains.
One difference is that most Taiwanese hospitals continue to have an RN circulating nurse and scrub nurse for each surgical patient.