How late do your surgeons do electives?

[linda2097]

We have one surgeon who often does elective cases from 7am all the way to 1am. How late does your OR allow surgeons to book elective surgeries?

[Aneroo, LPN]

Our hospital is all about "customer service" and the docs fall under that heading! They get free food and sodas in a lounge that is much nicer than ours with a big screen plasma TV (we get vending machines and the institutional TV bolted to the wall). You can really see where the priorities lie.

Do you work at the same hospital as me? LOL Same here.

We'll do cases so long as we have staff.

[Sheila S]

We have one surgeon who often does elective cases from 7am all the way to 1am. How late does your OR allow surgeons to book elective surgeries?

[fracturenurse]

Our hospital is all about "customer service" and the docs fall under that heading! They get free food and sodas in a lounge that is much nicer than ours with a big screen plasma TV (we get vending machines and the institutional TV bolted to the wall). You can really see where the priorities lie.

At least you get a TV. We don't even get that. We had a radio-but now that's gone too.

We try to wrap up our cases by 1900. Most of our staff leaves at that time. We only have the capacity to run 4 rooms at 1500 and that always causes grief. Anesthesia always wants to run more rooms but we never have the staff. If a surgeon was scheduled to follow in a 5th room, they get bumped. It can really be a paine!

[elcue]

They do whatever they want, whenever they want to do it. If they want to start before our 0730 start of business, they allow them to post an early start & the staff assigned to that room must come in early to do the case. If they post a 6-hour spine for 4pm, that's business as usual, and if there's not enough scheduled staff there, the call team comes in to finish the schedule. The docs' lounge is fully stocked with beverages, snacks and hot meals - oh, and a vibrating leather recliner (swear it's true...) from which to veiw the large plasma screen permanently tuned to ESPN or Fox Oh, how I miss the more egalitarian, collegial atmosphere of a teaching hospital.