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Ok, I have an interview at a pediatric dental and oral surgery center tomorrow. They provide pt's with anesthesia and need nurses on staff. They said they want to cross train the nurse they hire for pre-op, or, and pacu.

My question is this:

Would this look like good experience? or would it just look like I worked in a dentists office??

My future career goals are OR nursing, or Nurse Practitioner. I'm not real interested in hospital medsurg.

I don't want to give up the job i have now if this wouldn't likely help me in an OR job later on. But it sounds like it would be good......

Thanks!

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anybody?? i looked it up in my NPA an nurses in texas can take orders from dentists...

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Can you stay where you are and keep trying for an OR job? You do not necessarily need experience to start in the OR...My local hospital is hiring new grads in droves because they actually prefer a new nurse that they can shape and mold to meet their needs. Is the dental surgery center in a hospital? How will they train you for PACU, OR and pre-op? If it's in a practice that does other general surgeries besides oral I think you should go for it...If it's just all dental I am not sure if that would translate to an actual OR.

*I am just trying to help because I saw that you didn't have any responses. If anyone disagrees with my advice please feel free to correct me.

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no its just oral, i am questioning it too. my local hospitals are either not taking new grads or prefer bsn's. i have an adn now. the next new grad hiring will be for this winter, i think im just going to start looking into that again : /

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Funny, I think I have the interview at same place, but on Monday. I wondered the same thing. How will working in dental surgery translate into anything acute?

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BTW, how was the interview? Do you know if pay is decent?

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i didn't end up going, did you?

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Yes, but nothing came of it. A friend of mine with dental experience was called for a working interview. She didn't have a good experience with it. They told her she wasn't a good fit, but then asked her to work prn for them. She turned them down. She refused to give profofol because she didn't draw up the dose, didn't know the right dose, and wasn't familiar with it. They seemed to get upset with her about that. I don't blame her for not doing it. She just got her license and doesn't want to lose it.

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Specializes in ICU, ER, EP,.

HOLY crap no!!! As an ICU nurse, pushing propofol was taken away from us because of the rapid onset, the hemodynamic effects and if respiratory couldn't intubate them, we were bagging them for 10 minutes.

I mean no offense, but a new nurse, with no ability to decipher the good from the bad, has no business with propofol.

Any doubts about why this would have caused you to loose this shinny new license, look up the CRNA boards and search diprovan. I have an extremely high comfort level after 16 years of ICU with it and would NEVER push it in a dentists office, especially if you are not skilled at ACLS and know what an APACHE score is and when to refuse.

please research this further, your friend was VERY wise to refuse. This is how people die.

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