divokevan

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1. Need more advice asap!! OR vs aesthetics

   divokevan replied to hopfrogger's topic in Aesthetics

   Okay, I know this was a year ago, but you can't be slow in the OR. It is the most stressful job I have ever had! Just because there is only one patient at a time doesn't mean you don't prioritize.

2. Well... I GOT IT!!!

   divokevan replied to divokevan's topic in Aesthetics

   I've planned on doing this for a while now so I have set up my experience to look good to these types of jobs. I worked in a GI office for a while then went to surgery at a large hospital for 2.5 years, did their RN residency, and got in on all the ...

3. Well... I GOT IT!!!

   divokevan posted a topic in Aesthetics

   After working for two and a half years in an operating room and being charge nurse and begging to be in our few plastic surgery rooms all the time.... I GOT IT! I'm going to start as an aesthetic/plastic surgery RN at a private practice! No more orth...

4. OR RN work schedule?

   divokevan replied to linguine's topic in Operating Room

   I work Monday through Friday: no holidays or weekends. I work 10 hours/ day, op, so I get one day off a week. I can request the day or have it rotated. Some days I get off early if I want to because my cases will finish up early!

5. Outpatient Surgery Baby! A transfer of happiness!

   divokevan posted a topic in Operating Room

   Hi, I started my nursing career in a place I always thought I wanted to go, THE OR! This was about a year and a half ago. Now, I should mention, I was from an outpatient surgery center prior to becomming an RN. Over the first few months, I knew it wa...

6. frustrations

   divokevan replied to cyncopia's topic in Operating Room

   Bwuahahaha! Don't you worry you're little self about that! Plenty of stupid things you'll do in your first 6 months... at least thats been my experience so far! I'm 8 months in, two weeks on my own and now its a WHOLE NEW SET OF STUPID! Oh well! I ju...

7. Nursing Student Wanting OR, Should I Get A Floor Tech Position?

   divokevan replied to redraider1977's topic in Operating Room

   YES! And this is why... When I was a nursing student, I started out as a floor tech then used that experience to get a job in an out pt. surgery center (ASC). This was affiliated with a bigger hospital and I used that tie to get into the OR the secon...

8. Sharp/Instrument Count Question

   divokevan replied to BeanRN's topic in Operating Room

   I messed up big time today on a count. The thing was, when I was doing my first count, we counted open blades but there were two unopened blades on the field that I didn't put up (against my better judgement). Later, with the first count, we had two ...

9. How long does it take to love your OR job????

   divokevan replied to divokevan's topic in Operating Room

   To PetiteOpRN, You're right. I'm going to give it time. I prob wont quit I just had a loooong day when I posted. I'm just going through the, "is this really what I'm going to do for the rest of my life??" phase. It definately helps to have consista...

10. How long does it take to love your OR job????

    divokevan posted a topic in Operating Room

    I'll admit that I shouldn't have expected the big bad OR to be the same as my outpatient ASC clinic. I'm just having trouble being new in such an unfamiliar environment. Its hard enough being a total moron everyday! Let alone dealing with difficult p...

11. New to the OR

    divokevan replied to lesliehaynes0625's topic in Operating Room

    Hey! Congrats on the new position! Anyways, I just got hired in an OR 3 months ago. I would agree that you need to make a routine especially at first when you feel very task oriented as I do now. There is less chance to mess up this way. I made a lit...

12. Advice for surviving OR consortium!!

    divokevan replied to divokevan's topic in Operating Room

    Phew... Well I finally relaxed enough on the field to think things through and take my time. While I have little blunders here and there, I'm experiencing waaaay less "tunnel vision". I like all of the advice about being slow actually being quick. I ...

13. Advice for surviving OR consortium!!

    divokevan replied to divokevan's topic in Operating Room

    Wow! I need to get an iphone with my new paychecks if you can easily type all that on it! Anyways, since I've had a couple of hours to debrief by working out, shopping and ... tanning :-(... I've gotten a little perspective. Hopefully all of these s...

14. Advice for surviving OR consortium!!

    divokevan replied to divokevan's topic in Operating Room

    Yeah thanks for the pointers. Good to know even experienced RN's forget the small stuff sometimes. Next week we're scrubbing and we'll be doing that for 4 weeks. Hopefully, that's enough time to take in enough to do it. After that, we circulate for 1...

15. Advice for surviving OR consortium!!

    divokevan posted a topic in Operating Room

    Hello! I just graduated in December and my first job hit the mark in the operating room, the only place I have ever wanted to work. Now, I have worked in a small surgery/ procedure center, but honey... let me tell ya' this is NOT the same! So far, i...