GNVQ student to spend day in theatres

30 May 2000

Bryony Salmon has won the opportunity to spend a day in the operating theatres to find out more about the role of operating department practitioners, ODPs, at the West Suffolk Hospital.

Stewart Shaw, Training and Development Co-ordinator for Operating Department Practice, has organised a full day for Bryony which starts bright and early on Thursday 1 June with the preparation of the theatre for Mr Keeling, a Consultant General Surgeon.

Bryony will accompany patients to the general anaesthesia room, observe an operation and see the patient through into recovery.

Bryony is taking a GNVQ course in Health and Social Care and recently attended a Career Awareness Day at the Drummond Centre. Visitors were offered a chance to win a day in an operating theatre to see at first hand the role of the ODP. Bryony picked out the lucky raffle ticket.

Editor's notes

If you would like to talk to or take a photograph of Bryony with Mr Keeling and Stewart Shaw please contact Diane Mathews or Richard Carter of Communique (01284 768935).