plastic surgery recovery centers

kate930 · Dec 8, 2003

I'd like to go work for one to see if I could get an employee discount... or maybe have my butt-lifted, tummy-tucked and wrinkles minimized as a Christmas bonus for being such a faithful employee!!!

sjoe · Dec 9, 2003

Since your profile does not indicate where you live, it is not possible to give you a specific response.

If you are near a reasonably large city, pick up one of the free weekly newspapers (they usually consider themselves to be counter-culture, but that is questionable) that have a lot of ads for music performances, clubs, "with it" kinds of social activities, and most likely many dozens of pages of display ads for many different kinds of plastic and cosmetic surgeries and treatments.

Call some of these places and ask them what they do with their patients after treatments. Many of them keep their patients on the premises, others send them out for brief after-care stays.

Otherwise, call the offices of some plastic surgeons and ask them.

Some more exclusive and expensive operations are run like resorts, where patients stay for a week or more as they are treated and recover. These might be nice places to work, as well, if you don't mind always dancing to the piper's tune.

hogan4736, BSN, RN · Dec 9, 2003

sjoe,

you get "The Reader" in San Diego...

We have the "New Times"

sister publications...always great reading:cool:

sean

Geeg · Dec 10, 2003

I would want to work in the rec center they show on "Extreme Makeover" (on ABC) looks plush. On second thought, I wouldn't want to deal with all the n/v and having to tell them, repeatedly, how great they are going to look.

robynrn2b · Dec 10, 2003

I think most surgeons have arrangements if you choose to go to a recovery center. I had my surgery a couple weeks ago (re-do) and they do offer it but.....$$$$$

sharann, BSN, RN · Dec 10, 2003

Plastic or no plastic it is still surgery, and many take this too lightly. YOu really need to be careful when you go to work for a private center/surg office. I worked in one when I was young to nursing and even I knew that something was VERY wrong there. This "doctor"(I use the term loosely) was doing procedures in his OR in his office that should have been done with an anesthetist and a general. Instead, this guy did "twilight" which I had to give (Ketamine,Versed,Valium,Demerol...)while I watched the monitors, the airway, and circulated the room. I was the only licenced staff there. I was there 3 times (yes, 3 times) before I wised up and researched this. #1 Ketamine is really consisidered an anesthetic drug, so I shouldn't have given it. Next I found about that the docs office manager (who had no formal healthcare training at all) would scrub, assist, push drugs and recover patients. He also had the scrub tech recover before me.

OH, and after I took ACLS I quit. They had NO O2, NO working crash cart, and the crash meds were all dusty and EXPIRED. I could go on but this was an eye opener. Thank g-d I still have my license, but I worry at times....