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OR nursing is ... weird. A lot of turn and burn for the rooms, sure you have just one patient at a time but you can spend more time setting up and breaking down a room than the patient spends in surgery. High stress, high burnout. I loved it for the four months or so I did it until I needed a surgery, then everything soured. Very ugly culture in the OR at some places. They don't like a new trainee getting hurt. I ended up leaving and finding an LTC employer willing to work around the surgery I needed. Fantastic decision. Higher pay, better benefits, but I do miss the OR a bit. Looks like a great situation for anyone with experience, but you have to wonder why they have such a hard time filling spots.

I learn very quickly so it felt easy to me by two months. Much more so by four. I ended up leaving because I unexpectedly needed a surgery, but definitely will consider getting back into OR once I heal up. I found another job willing to work around my schedule and limitations with a raise so what's a nurse to do! fast cases are always a blur because of the demands of charting and quick turn around, but once you begin to see that all cases have a same basic skeleton to them of actions it gets repetitive and easy. Then you start writing down what is absolutely necessary to chart and catching up / efficiently pre-charting non-specific details, etc. it gets easier.

It set a bad precedent that this person did not do hard time for what amounted to profusely negligent homicide.

New grad nurse here. Run, don't walk, and go sign the OR contract as quickly as possible. Safest bet for your license, guaranteed breaks, work/life balance is amazing, the job is dead easy once you get the hang of it, orientation is LONG, and it is one of the #1 specialties for lucrative travel contracts.

Honestly, toughen the hell up. This generation has become offended by everything. Everyone has turned into a little dictator that demands everyone bow at their feet cater to their every need. Ban me if you want for saying it, but the culture that pushes this insane nonsense is ruining societies the world over. No wonder people live in terror of offending each other and no one knows how to form a decent human relationship anymore. They live in a perpetual world of false persecution cooked up by deluded minds.

I've had patients under MAC anesthesia get an erection just from surgical prep in cysto. It's can be an entirely involuntary reaction.

Thanks. On a good note, it makes me a better nurse, and I never would have been able to have the beautiful family I have without the medical retirement from the military and decade I spent recovering. Silver lining!!

A PA missed something the radiologist later caught on an X-ray when I was in the service. By then it was too late. I nearly lost my arm and will be in horrific pain the rest of my life. I was in my twenties and it destroyed my life. I'm lucky I didn't kill myself from the pain of my nerves dying and the subsequent CRPS Everything is great until the unicorn patient walks in, then mid levels kill or maim people because they cannot be expected to reasonably catch those rare cases that require an intimate understanding of every aspect of the human body down to the level of minutia.

I eat one large meal a day when working, and one or two 100-150 calorie snacks. On off days I eat two large meals. I don't drink anything but water, black coffee, and drinks that use stevia or sugar alcohols as sweeteners. How can I do it? As others have said I eat whole foods; specifically a strict ketogenic diet that controls my seizures. You almost never get hungry when you eat high fiber vegetables and satiating quantities of fat. My blood work has never been better. I lost the weight and kept 70% of it off permanently. Four years and running.

No one is going to look down on you. BUTTT…. Self care is so important. For YOU make a game plan and stick to it. Hit the gym, eat only what you cook yourself, cut the carbs waaay down to something more realistic like our ancestors would eat, try intermittent fasting (works great when you’re finally doing shift work), and never drink anything that has a sweetener again. Learning to cook quality gourmet food while in nursing school helped my stress, my performance, and my pocket book.

They’re provided in the Operating Room, for sanitation purposes. It should really be that way in all units, but it is not. That said, a hospital will only buy uncomfortable awful scrubs and not the nice stuff I like.

Just throwing this out there, but I would initiate a workplace harassment claim with HR based on disability immediately.

When nurses at the hospital I was doing clinicals at last year started telling me that 8 patients was the new norm with mandating every week, I instantly said "not for me." No, and hell no. I’m too physically disabled and old to wreck what is left of my body and risk my license over the penny pinchers in charge of hospitals squeezing every last cent they can out of nursing staff willing to be abused by unsafe staffing practices.

I did run into this in school… one of my preceptors had about a year of experience BUT she was a DEMSN graduate from a top school and was sharp as a tack. Honestly she did a great job, almost as good as another preceptor that had a decade of experience.

You just proved my point. People with this sort of irrational mentality are the reason jobs such as police and military eventually had to be legally prevented from striking. People care more about their ideology than the safety of society.

People tend to have emotion driven strong reactions to this topic that give precedence to their personal reservations versus rational discourse. I was discussing this matter recently with someone at a social gathering (their spouse is an OR nurse) and I made the following points: Surgeries have to continue, someone has to staff the trauma room, what if your loved one is involved in a traffic accident? Hospitals are financially penalized for not negotiating with striking nurses when they have to pay crisis contract rates, the nurse crossing strike lines is actually helping the strikers. The individual was so invested in their emotional reaction to the matter that they were incapable of rationalizing. Their arguments back were "the doctors can do everything for the surgery" to which I informed them it doesn’t work that way. They can’t do their job without nurses. Then they simply stated it would be necessary for their loved one to just die. That was the point when I realized that some people are so brainwashed that they cannot be reasoned with. So I personally have no problem with a nurse crossing the lines. We need healthcare to continue. I just think we should make the hospitals pay through the nose for those travelers so they have a reason to be reasonable in their negotiations with striking staff.

Something I try to remind myself, that I hope other new nurses make their mantra: "be the change you want to see in the world." Got this.

Well, truthfully, I specifically targeted OR after shadowing it because I realized it was the best possible choice for someone with my issue. Aside from that, I am open and up front about my diagnosis. I can’t hide it for very long, I’m very "Sheldon Cooper"~ish. I make it a point in my interactions with others to regularly receive feedback on my interactions and am 100% blunt to ensure I have not unintentionally offended anyone in interactions if I have a tinge of doubt. I also set ground rules by encouraging people to directly and clearly tell me any time that I have said or done something that might have been considered rude or crass to ensure that I know and can modify my behavior, because I am clear with them that if this occurs it is not intentional. I make it fairly clear early on that I am incapable of processing subtext and take everything literally. I also personally am incapable of lying and will avoid direct questions that make me uncomfortable if the situation is not one that requires my input for work related reasons. I think the most valuable lesson I can share is to set realistic expectations, communicate clearly, and have them teach back that they understand where you are coming from. ——- Edit: LOL, case in point, it took me an hour to realize I should have thanked you for asking. Thank you.

I’m older and my body hurts. I’m willing to pay upwards of $120 for a good comfortable top, pants, and jacket.

ROFL. Sure. LOL

What on earth is wrong with your school?

Start reading now. Also, Aleks is a great resource for self teaching Chemistry before you start.

The most important lesson is to know who funded a study. Always read the conflict of interests statement. Research can be, and has been, manipulated for end purposes. The number of journals that have been caught peer reviewing AI generated nonsense is shameful. Here’s a great NPR article as an example: https://www.npr.org/sections/thetwo-way/2016/09/13/493739074/50-years-ago-sugar-industry-quietly-paid-scientists-to-point-blame-at-fat Another great article from Nature: https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-021-01436-7

Fellow high functioning ASD here. This is a specific reason I accepted an offer to work the operating room. No shame in playing to your strengths.

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