RMH_RN_EMT

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1. How to become an OR nurse

   RMH_RN_EMT replied to 1102RN's topic in Operating Room

   Just apply to your hospital periop service. If they hire you, they should give you at least a six month orientation in which you will learn equiptment, instruments, procedures, positioning ect... In my dept you dont have to have extra schooling, but...

2. Circulator Nurse?

   RMH_RN_EMT replied to IlovenursingRN's topic in Operating Room

   Do you have a thick skin??? You need one!! OR nurses and techs can be brutal! Not to mention the surgeons. I can't tell you how many times I cried during my first few months. Everyday I was ready to quit, but I hung in there and in the end I enjoy my...

3. Does this happen to anyone else? (female cath)

   RMH_RN_EMT replied to studentnurse2012's topic in General Students

   My first experience putting in a f/c was the same. It was on an obese older woman (60's maybe) and she wasn't being very cooperative. I had my instructor and another student helping to hold back her pannis but I still couldn't see very well and misse...