one hit wonders

[RNOTODAY, BSN, RN]

I guess you can tell I am having a bad week.....but my question is, how do you become one of those nurses or techs who do the same cases and work with the same docs week in and week out? and on the off chance they need to do something else, they do all but jump up and down saying "i dont do that, etc etc" while others, get bounced around from service to service, surgeon to surgeon and expect to function.....is it seniority? experience, what? i always say if I could just do one service for just 2 weeks, now that I have some experience under my belt and I know what I need to be asking, I swear I would be an expert at it!!! its just hard doing something every 8 weeks and then struggling. then the people who regularly do those cases either complain, or worse, they actually sabotage the case to make it look like the cases shouldnt go on without them....its sad, imo...... input?

[Scrubby]

I guess you can tell I am having a bad week.....but my question is, how do you become one of those nurses or techs who do the same cases and work with the same docs week in and week out? and on the off chance they need to do something else, they do all but jump up and down saying "i dont do that, etc etc" while others, get bounced around from service to service, surgeon to surgeon and expect to function.....is it seniority? experience, what? i always say if I could just do one service for just 2 weeks, now that I have some experience under my belt and I know what I need to be asking, I swear I would be an expert at it!!! its just hard doing something every 8 weeks and then struggling. then the people who regularly do those cases either complain, or worse, they actually sabotage the case to make it look like the cases shouldnt go on without them....its sad, imo...... input?

Yes we have this same issue where I work. I was very lucky because I was doing a six month rotation in hepatobiliary and upper GI and the CN who ran the clinic joined management so I got her job. It is nicer to stay in the same clinical specialty. I can see how frustrating it would be to be a float nurse in the OR and be expected to be able to do everything.

My avice would be to talk to management or whoever is in charge of allocating staff and let them know that you would like to work somewhere on a more permanent basis.

[Rose_Queen, BSN, MSN, RN]

We have that where I work. THose that have been there forever stay in the same specialty whereas those who are newer float between them. What concerns me is that we don't have specialty call, you get called in for anything except open heart. So those that only do general surgery, how well do they know neuro instrumentation or those that only do neuro know ortho stuff?