Key result
Editorial evaluates whether the UK is ready for the nurse anaesthetist role.
Why the study?
The expanding roles of nurses and perioperative practitioners in anaesthetics raise questions about their acceptance and readiness for new anaesthetic roles in the UK.
Questions UK readiness for nurse anaesthetists; leaves open feasibility of role introduction without further evaluation.
With the ongoing debate on New Ways of Working in the National Health Service, the role of nurses and other perioperative practitioners in anaesthetics is becoming an increasingly prominent issue. The opening up of new anaesthetic roles to nurses and their non-medical colleagues raises questions as to their own acceptance of these new roles and their acceptance by their medical colleagues. In this article, the author addresses the question as to whether perioperative practitioners are ready for the nurse anaesthetist, and whether the UK as a whole is ready for this initiative.
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Bernadette McCulloch (2004) reported an editorial. Nurse anaesthetist role was evaluated. The article discusses whether perioperative practitioners and the UK as a whole are ready for the introduction of the nurse anaesthetist role.
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