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Expanding the Perioperative Role the Surgeon's Assistant

The role of Surgeon's Assistant continues to be a contentious issue within the perioperative environment. Questions arise as to whether theatre nurses both want to and ought to extend their role into the medical margins. Suzanne Boss surveys the literature and draws preliminary conclusions on this development in nursing practice. This article was submitted in entry for the Alison Bell Writer's Competition 2001.