This course is designed to support new and orientating staff to the nursing theatre environment. 

Topics include:

  • scrub and circulating nursing roles in theatre
  • aseptic technique, the surgical hand scrub and appropriate surgical attire alongside gowning and gloving 
  • surgical count
  • safe sharps handling.

Total PD hours : 1



This eLearning course offers refresher information about tracheostomy management.


This course explains Nelson Marlborough Health business rules for setting up recipients to ensure that correspondence is sent to the correct recipient in a timely fashion.

All transcriptionists must complete this training prior to creating new recipients in Winscribe Text. 


Wounds affect a great number of the patients that enter the services provided by Nelson Marlborough Health therefore it is important that all health care professionals maintain a basic level of knowledge of wound care to aid in their assessment and treatment of wounds. To facilitate this distribution of knowledge it has been made a mandatory  prerequisite to the wound care study day.

This course is worth 3 hours of Professional Development time.