[kcorny8]

My hospital is pretty small. What is it like working in a large hospital? I've heard that there are special teams for each specialty or for heart/transplant. Do the special teams also do trauma or is there a trauma team?

[Charity]

Can't speak for everyone, but in our hospital there are not dedicated teams as such...but almost. Generally we have dedicated "rooms"....the ortho rooms, the eye rooms, Ent, renal, heart, etc. with long-term assignments to said rooms. Different surgeons and anesthesiologists may be in a room, but the RNs and techs stay the same. Except that there are only some that can go into the heart room.


Everyone is crosstrained to all kinds of surgery, of course because we "split out" rooms all the time and the dental room may find themselves with a quick little breast reduction!

Occasionally our eye surgeons will bring in their own team on the weekends if they want to operate when the OR is running its emergency only schedule and won't ok a non-emergent case.