Personality qualities of the good circulating RN

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Just as post has said, please enlighten me on the major personality qualities of the good circulator. Know they are different from the regular bedside RN in some ways. Thank you!

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Wow. Beautiful. I love it already. Thanks for directing me!

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*Be quick, agile and a good memory of where things are.

*Know your stuff. Know the cases, what you need and extra items for those just-in-case moments. Knowledge of OR policy and procedures.

*Ability to roll with the punches.

*Snake handling, learn how to do it! Bring your finest flute but prepare to get bitten!

*Good sense of humor, don't be too uptight about things. Learn to laugh.

*Be helpful to others, clear off the top of the case cart for your scrub, answer the resident's pager when you can even if you don't have to, be conservative when you can.

*Accept help from others and give help to others. Don't be one of those people who can't be helped because you'd rather do it yourself. People love watching these people fail and grovel for help after you've tried offering several times. Also, if you never help out, people will resent having to help you. This makes you look much better than drowning in a CF case and having to beg people to whom you have denied help in the past. We are all a team, sometimes you have to suck it up! Develop a safety net of your peers!

There are a lot of strong personalities in the OR and you have to learn to be one yourself. Don't get walked on, you have to be able to stand up for yourself and your patient's. If you have no backbone and the surgeon is barking at you to do something unsafe you can't just do it without question. You have to be able to swallow your pride and do what is right and in the long run the OR team will respect you for being a professional nurse. It is hard to balance out all of these qualities sometimes but the best circulators I have ever known had all of these qualities. :redbeathe:redpinkhe:redbeathe:redpinkhe:redbeathe:redpinkhe:redbeathe:redpinkhe:redbeathe:redpinkhe:redbeathe:redpinkhe

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Thank you! I want to be in the OR so much.

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