Sezza83 BSN, RN

OR and Midwifery

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About Sezza83

Sezza83 has 6 years experience as a BSN, RN and specializes in OR and Midwifery.


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    Going to L&D

    I work both in the OR and L&D but in Australia with 2 partime jobs in 2 different hospitals. I was a OR nurse first for many years then after having my daughter decided to go back and do midwifery. I really enjoy working both areas. I get hands ...
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    Perioperative Nurse Surgeon's Assistant

    I think at this point in time the career opportunities just aren't here in Australia. Shame really. I really enjoy assisting and I'm sure plenty of surgeons would prefer an experienced theatre nurse than a 1st year resident who doesn't know how to ...
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    Perioperative Nurse Surgeon's Assistant

    I also wonder if you'd need medicare and prescribing rights? Who pays you? The surgeon, hospital, private health company?
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    Perioperative Nurse Surgeon's Assistant

    Here is the course: http://courses.scu.edu.au/courses/master-of-advanced-health-practice/2014 It's a master's degree. I looked in to it but figured it wasn't worth it because I don't know if you'd get a job.
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    Advantage and disadvantages of theatre nursing

    Advantage: one pt at a time. The feeling of fixing they're problems. 99% of the time it's a very controlled environment, even in emergencies very rarely do I feel overwhelmed unlike the ward where one little hiccup can stuff your whole shift up. D...
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    Advantage and disadvantages of theatre nursing

    Haha. What country are you from OP? OR nursing is often referred as theatre nursing in NZ/Australia/UK. Anyway I'm a "theatre" nurse in Australia for the last 10ish years. What's it like? Love it. I'm a circulator/scrub nurse. It's nothing like ...
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    How many codes happen in a PACU?

    The only codes we broadcast are neonatal codes blues and major hemorrhages. Basically so a neonatologist can come in and NICU is aware. And if the patient is bleeding the pathologist can run urgent bloods and start preparing blood products. Other tha...
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    US male nurse interested in moving to Australia

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    Big Mistakes to avoid while circulating...?

    Never open implants (or anything expensive for that matter)without showing the surgeon first. Do not rely on the rep that the joint implant is the right one or size because once they're open there is no way the company will take them back so someone ...
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    Common nicknames for hospital items.

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    How many of you both circulate AND scrub?

    No such thing as a scrub tech in Australia so we take scrubbing and circulating in turns. I love to be scrubbed in, nothing like a good old AAA repair first thing in the morning :)
  12. Similarly, my husband works in lab with scientists from all over the world: Haiti, Italy, France, Spain, New Zealand, Japan etc... Not only did they have to become extremely fluent in English, they had to learn perfect grammar writing scientific arti...
  13. Thanks very much for your replies!
  14. Sadly it's standard in Australia. 2 shifts, 3 if you're lucky!
  15. Ok so I'm a nurse in Australia. I have been in the OR for 6 years & I love it. I'm intrigued as to how the OR is different compared to Australia. We have 3 nurses to a OR for all cases. 2 are scrub/circulating nurses who will take turns in scrub...