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I have been an OR Director, circulator/staff nurse. I know from experience it takes time to train a new OR nurse. Some young nurses find the Operating Room to be a foreign land. I have always heard that a nurse is a nurse. Any nurse can go any where in the hospital and work. Wrong, An OR nurse has to know so much more, he/she must be alert at all times, anticipating needs of all the Operating Room Personnel and especially the patient. If you are asked to float to the Operating Room for the first time, you would be totally lost. If you were asked to float to a unit you would be a little frightened but you would be able to take care of patient without too much help. Not in the Operating Room. There is equipment, instruments, procedures, positioning for different procedures, prepping, the list goes on. Operating Room nurses are very hard to come by, personnally I feel we are needy for responses, in the Operating Room you don't receive much patient time. Instead the patient is totally dependent on you to take care of them while they are asleep. At no other time in nursing will you be handed a life to care far personnally. Take the challenge it is very rewarding.

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need help filling out the competency expectations Core 13:( I am lost.I am totally lost. I can't believe that I must do this after 26 years of nursing.