Discuss your overall experience in the surgical setting and how this will help you as a Band 7 theatre nurse.
As a Band 7 theatre nurse, your position will include working with patients during the preoperative, anesthesia, surgical, and recovery phases of their operation and procedure. This is very hands-on and highly skilled work, so your interviewer wants to hear you thoroughly discuss any nursing experience you have in this realm throughout your career. While they can likely see your overall experience from your CV, this is the time for you to elaborate on any experience you have in surgical preparation, assessing patients before procedures, preparing surgical equipment, and first assisting in the operating room.
"As you can see from my CV, my career has progressed over time from a Band 5 nurse as a new graduate to where I'm at today as a band 7 nurse. My experience has been very well-rounded, capped off over the last four years in a private eye clinic. In this role, my Ophthalmologist typically performs procedures two days per week and I spend most days with him in the OR. My duties here have included prepping patients for their procedures through the administration of eye drops and other things. I also am bedside during procedures to aid in instrumentation and anesthesia administration. In this role, I feel my experience will bode well as I come aboard with a lot more to learn."
