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OR care and technology

Operating room nursing staff take care of sterile materials and equipment as well as technical devices in the operating room. With the utmost precision and concentration, they play a key role in ensuring that surgical procedures are successful.

OR nursing is the backbone of the operating doctors: their tasks include preparing and following up patients and the operating theaters for operations, as well as supporting the medical teams during the operation.

The OR nursing team positions patients, hands out instruments and operates the sometimes highly specialized technology. Hygiene is also one of the central tasks of the OR nursing team - in addition to quality documentation and service recording.

The following roles exist at the USB within OR nursing and technology:

  • Certified specialist in surgical technology HF
  • Operating room positioning (further training course after completing the FaGe training)
  • Coordination (for people with a nursing background)

"The USB is a super exciting place to work with modern premises, lots of daylight and interesting specialist areas."
Jan de Voogd, Head of OR Technology
Jan de Voogd, Head of OR Technology

Jan de Voogd, Head of OR Technology

Complete spectrum in state-of-the-art infrastructure

OR nursing combines general nursing tasks with highly specialized expertise. Operating theatre nurses work in the two central operating theatres at the USB and, as the entire medical spectrum is offered here, have a great deal of experience in a wide variety of areas. Working with people from other professional groups is also part of everyday life and makes the job very varied.

Further advantages at the USB:

  • Individual workplace design
  • Compatibility of family and career (part-time work, say in the duty rota, childcare facilities)
  • Modern infrastructure (new central operating theater)

The OR Nursing and Technology department offers the following career options:

  • Specialist (specialist responsibility or specialist expert for practice development)
  • Management (team management, department management)
  • Education (responsibility for training)

Regular internal and external further and advanced training is part of the role of OR nursing. The USB contributes financially to specific further training courses and, depending on the situation, also enables reduced workloads. We also encourage temporary work at one of our partner hospitals for the purpose of further training.

OR technology specialists can train for a Bachelor of Science in Nursing or Systems Engineering (with a specialization in medical technology).

The USB offers the practical part of the three-year HF training to become a certified surgical technology specialist in all specialist areas.

Interested? Click here for more information:
Training as a qualified specialist in surgical technology HF