OR Blues(long)

[Windyhill, BSN]

So a couple of anesthesiologists were picking on me during orientation, one of them I responded back to.. the other one I didnt. I already had one year of operating room experience when I went to another facility, so during training, they

were telling me how to prep surgeries that I already knew how to prep, and I let them for the most part...well one day out of the blue I got an email saying that I was schedueled for a coaching session on orientation.

The session was about how I shouldnt push my ideas on others, and how I shouldnt tell the physicians how to do their job. I wasnt doing any of these things, and when I mentioned it, he said that he had a list of things that I was doing. The list was not even accurate.

So I decided to leave that OR. The very next day they gave my position to someone else that was already there. I feel like it was done on purpose to make me vacate the position.

I left the previous job, because of bullying and lies being told about me to management from the educator nurse. Is the OR just not for me?

[Windyhill, BSN]

I was also told that the coach told the supervisors to watch me. I wish the coaching was about how to handle being bullied by doctors, and nurses, when no one else will do anything.

[Argo]

There is an old saying or two about this. Something about pointing fingers, one is away from you and three are back at you.....

If this has happened to you not only once but TWICE I A ROW. I think you should focus on trying to see what others are looking at when they are looking at YOU.

Take my advice how you want but i have worked in surgery for 18 years, 10 as a RN. I travel and have been in numerous facilities without ever having these issues.

[springchick1, ADN, RN]

Just because you have experience doesn't mean that what you are doing is the correct way to do it. We get employees that have "experience" and are impossible to train because they get defensive when they are being taught.

Just because someone was hired the day after you left doesn't mean that was you spot they filled. HR takes forever, even for internal applicants. It doesn't happen overnight. Take a long hard look at your attitude and how you may be coming across to coworkers. You may find some of your answers there.

[sop832]

Hmmm.. Why is an anesthesiologist criticizing your prep? And how is that telling the physician what to do? If you're on orientation, where was your preceptor? It sounds to me like you're well out of there.

[GadgetRN71, ASN, RN]

I know it can be frustrating to be told how to do something when you know how to do it correctly or have experience. I recently started a job at a surgery center. I have 10 years experience as an OR nurse and 7 as a surgical tech. When I started, I had people telling me things I knew. I choose to pick my battles..meaning that if I was being told something patently wrong or unsafe, I would say something but if was a matter of preference for that facility, I would just go along with it on orientation. Once you are more established there, you can develop your own ways of doing things.