Nursing or ODP???

owenevans1985

Help!! I am applying for a 2010 entry to do either Nursing or ODP (operating department practice) and I don't know which to do! I am applying as a mature student (well if you can call 24 mature!) And am finding the whole UCAS application very daunting! I have no experience what so ever but just no I want to do something caring and medical, the problem is I was bullied really badly at secoundary school and lost my achademic skills but have now decided to give it a go, someone please help me!!! Owen :woo:

Reply 1

InArduisFouette

21

there are nurses in every role ODPs do , but ODPs cannot work in every setting nurses do , if you are sure perioperative care is what you want to do choose ODP, if not choose nursing as the only ways 'out' of perioperative care and a few critical care jobs but staying in healthcare service delivery for ODPs are as resus officers or in lay management.

waits for flack from the ODPs

Reply 2

Renal

17

zippyRN

there are nurses in every role ODPs do ,

Not too many though?

Reply 3

Spiffy

11

Nursing - 3 year degree with the opportunity to specialise later in your career and become a theatre scrub nurse.

ODP - 2 year diploma which prepares you for all types of theatre work; anaesthesia, scrub, recovery.

Both of them are unsociable but usually flexible hours. As an ODP on call you may have to sleep at the hospital sometimes. Take a look on the NHS careers website i you havent already http://www.nhscareers.nhs.uk/ and maybe the NHS jobs website where you should get a few results for 'theatre practitioner' - a read through the job descriptions and personal requirements should give you a very good idea of what the job entails.

Reply 4

InArduisFouette

21

Spiffy

Nursing - 3 year degree with the opportunity to specialise later in your career and become a theatre scrub nurse.

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that's not entirely correct is it?

i personally know of a good many RNs that work in PACU environments and more than a few RNs working in Anaesthesia ..

Reply 5

Spiffy

11

zippyRN

that's not entirely correct is it?

i personally know of a good many RNs that work in PACU environments and more than a few RNs working in Anaesthesia ..

Yeah there definitely is but to work in recovery and anesthesia i thought it would have required extra qualifications so there isnt really a direct entry to certain aspects of theatre work. I was looking into ODP myself once and looking at the job descriptions on the NHS jobs site the vast majority of them if you were entering as a nurse required you to have that extra qualification.

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Sky25

owenevans1985

Help!! I am applying for a 2010 entry to do either Nursing or ODP (operating department practice) and I don't know which to do! I am applying as a mature student (well if you can call 24 mature!) And am finding the whole UCAS application very daunting! I have no experience what so ever but just no I want to do something caring and medical, the problem is I was bullied really badly at secoundary school and lost my achademic skills but have now decided to give it a go, someone please help me!!! Owen :woo:

HI i am 26 and have applied to Oxford brookes for 2010 , i can highly recommend a Access course or a Foundation yr as ODP id very intensive and alot of protected study you have to be able to write assignements ect using Harvard system

Also try and get into your local hospital to shadow some nurses and ODP's as you have to kknow how different the roles are
Hope this helps

Reply 7

Emness

Hi, I’m also 24 and have applied for DipHE/BSc Adult nursing and DipHE ODP @ UEA and AR.

I will be going for the BSc in Adult nursing if I get offered it with the other two as back ups will struggle to choose between the two should I be offered both DipHE's and not the BSc. (Let me know what you decide and why!)

You say you lost all your academic skills after bullying I assume you have the correct GCSE's and or A levels? I have had some unexpected trouble with the entry requirements myself.

Best of luck, I’m sure you will have fun being one of only a handful of men on these courses either way!

Reply 8

Sojournicole

2

What did you end up choosing? Hope everything worked out as you hoped!

Original post by owenevans1985

Help!! I am applying for a 2010 entry to do either Nursing or ODP (operating department practice) and I don't know which to do! I am applying as a mature student (well if you can call 24 mature!) And am finding the whole UCAS application very daunting! I have no experience what so ever but just no I want to do something caring and medical, the problem is I was bullied really badly at secoundary school and lost my achademic skills but have now decided to give it a go, someone please help me!!! Owen :woo:

Reply 9

Respiratory1

Well do you want to work the rest of your life in theatre if so ODP is the best. But if you do not want theatres all the time then nursing is better. Remember the ODP qualification is the only recognised theatre qualification. OurTraining is more advanced theoretically

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