Nscorpiored

Nscorpiored BSN

Operating Room

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About Nscorpiored

Nscorpiored has 8 years experience as a BSN and specializes in Operating Room.


Operating Room/Surgical Services Nurse

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  1. Travel Nursing (Operating Room)

    Agreed! It's so much to learn and you have to hit the ground running it's unfair how they expect OR nurses to come in, know everything, and be comfortable doing it. I would say that is my blessing at my current staff position. It's a teach...
  2. Travel Nursing (Operating Room)

    Do you feel that you will pursue contracts solely for orthopaedics or trying again to work in an OR with various specialties
  3. Travel Nursing (Operating Room)

    Is this a travel contract??? Because I enjoy Ortho/Neuro as I move further into my career I plan to more than likely do solely Orthopedic Surgery/OR PRN/Per Diem
  4. Travel Nursing (Operating Room)

    Interesting because travel nurses have told me that you need to skilled in, of course, the basics, neuro/ortho/general/robotics/gynecology/cysto (I do all of these in rotation but my main service line is Neuro/Ortho) and CVOR Are you able to gi...
  5. Is seeing a pt in Preop really a must for OR nurses??

    VERY! At my hospital the CRNA/AA/PA brings the patient back to the OR but only after the OR nurse has seen, interviewed, signed off on the patient. Those few minutes have helped me determine what type of anesthesia they need/want, implants, alle...
  6. Yeah I can see the dilemma Then I would say working in a surgery center would be best instead of an acute setting...because call is apart of OR life...and unless they are willing to work with you (my job I think gives me about 30 to 45 minutes to ge...
  7. Sorry you will have to take the advice of others and just do ambulatory/surgery centers (and even they sometimes have to do urgent/emergent cases)...the only other option I have heard of is if you have done a certain amount of years (25 years or more...
  8. Are you seeing changes due to Covid?

    Yes! They have cancelled all elective surgeries emergent/urgent only. We come in the morning and have more than 20 surgeries, by 730 am the surgeries are cut down to less than 10 Speaking for myself due to having previous nursing experience I have t...
  9. How can I land an OR Job?

    Well let me just update all of you because I didn't mean to quote myself LOL It's a lot of hard work but it's proven to be even harder since Covid-19 hit my orientation has been majorly effected On one hand, I am getting a well rounded orientation si...
  10. Periop 101 Final Exam Advice? (2018 / 2017?)

    Well it's official I passed the PeriOp 101 Final Exam and I am now looking forward to my rotations for the next 6 to 9 months. As for the final exam To the poster who said it wasn't as bad as they thought it was going to be. I would have to agree to ...
  11. How can I land an OR Job?

    Congratulations and my program started in October so in a matter of a month I will be taking the Periop 101 Final Exam...I am now on week 2 of didactic/computer modules...we are rotating in and out of the OR to learn instruments, scrubbing in and out...
  12. On call policies

    My previous place of employment had a policy in place that nurses who have been in the OR for 25 years or more did not have to take call My present place of employment, the educators explained to me unless they are needed due to a shortage on the flo...
  13. Is Periop 101 needed?

    I am finding that it does come in handy because it allows for you to learn at your own pace, it specifies in great details why you do what you do and the reasoning behind each aspect, in addition there is information and training you wouldn't receive...
  14. Periop 101

    Look into Emory they do their PeriOperative 101 Nurse Residency around February/March, June/July, and September/October; Grady Memorial is Level 1 Trauma but I saw their job openings for the PeriOperative 101 Program listed around February/March (nev...
  15. How can I land an OR Job?

    What helped me land my first OR PeriOp 101 was the following: 1. Looking in to Indeed, creating job alerts at local hospitals, and being proactive. I would spend days at the computer looking for openings and putting my application (sometimes it worke...