Operating Room Nurses (OR Nurses) in Canada are specialized registered nurses who provide perioperative care to patients undergoing surgical procedures. They work across three phases of surgical care — preoperative preparation, intraoperative scrub and circulating roles, and postoperative recovery — ensuring patient safety, sterile technique, and seamless coordination among surgeons, anesthesiologists, and the broader surgical team.Demand for OR Nurses is persistently high due to growing surgical wait lists, expansion of day surgery and minimally invasive procedure volumes, an aging population requiring more elective and emergency surgeries, and a critical national shortage of perioperative-trained nurses expected to deepen well beyond 2026.### Key Facts* **NOC Code:** 31301 (Registered nurses and registered psychiatric nurses — Perioperative nursing specialty)* **Work Settings:** Hospital operating rooms, day surgery units, ambulatory surgical centers, cardiac and neurosurgical suites...