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  1. Well... I GOT IT!!!

    divokevan posted a topic in Aesthetics

    After working for two and a half years in an operating room and being charge nurse and begging to be in our few plastic surgery rooms all the time.... I GOT IT! I'm going to start as an...

  2. Need more advice asap!! OR vs aesthetics

    divokevan replied to hopfrogger's topic in Aesthetics

    Okay, I know this was a year ago, but you can't be slow in the OR. It is the most stressful job I have ever had! Just because there is only one patient at a time doesn't mean you don't

  3. Well... I GOT IT!!!

    divokevan replied to divokevan's topic in Aesthetics

    I've planned on doing this for a while now so I have set up my experience to look good to these types of jobs. I worked in a GI office for a while then went to surgery at a large hospital for 2.5...

  4. Outpatient Surgery Baby! A transfer of happiness!

    divokevan posted a topic in Operating Room

    Hi, I started my nursing career in a place I always thought I wanted to go, THE OR! This was about a year and a half ago. Now, I should mention, I was from an outpatient surgery center prior to...

  5. OR RN work schedule?

    divokevan replied to linguine's topic in Operating Room

    I work Monday through Friday: no holidays or weekends. I work 10 hours/ day, op, so I get one day off a week. I can request the day or have it rotated. Some days I get off early if I want to because...

  6. frustrations

    divokevan replied to cyncopia's topic in Operating Room

    Bwuahahaha! Don't you worry you're little self about that! Plenty of stupid things you'll do in your first 6 months... at least thats been my experience so far! I'm 8 months in, two weeks on my own...

  7. Nursing Student Wanting OR, Should I Get A Floor Tech Position?

    divokevan replied to redraider1977's topic in Operating Room

    YES! And this is why... When I was a nursing student, I started out as a floor tech then used that experience to get a job in an out pt. surgery center (ASC). This was affiliated with a bigger...

  8. How long does it take to love your OR job????

    divokevan posted a topic in Operating Room

    I'll admit that I shouldn't have expected the big bad OR to be the same as my outpatient ASC clinic. I'm just having trouble being new in such an unfamiliar environment. Its hard enough being a total...

  9. Sharp/Instrument Count Question

    divokevan replied to BeanRN's topic in Operating Room

    I messed up big time today on a count. The thing was, when I was doing my first count, we counted open blades but there were two unopened blades on the field that I didn't put up (against my better...

  10. How long does it take to love your OR job????

    divokevan replied to divokevan's topic in Operating Room

    To PetiteOpRN, You're right. I'm going to give it time. I prob wont quit I just had a loooong day when I posted. I'm just going through the, "is this really what I'm going to do for the rest of my...

  11. New to the OR

    divokevan replied to lesliehaynes0625's topic in Operating Room

    Hey! Congrats on the new position! Anyways, I just got hired in an OR 3 months ago. I would agree that you need to make a routine especially at first when you feel very task oriented as I do now....

  12. Advice for surviving OR consortium!!

    divokevan posted a topic in Operating Room

    Hello! I just graduated in December and my first job hit the mark in the operating room, the only place I have ever wanted to work. Now, I have worked in a small surgery/ procedure center, but...

  13. Advice for surviving OR consortium!!

    divokevan replied to divokevan's topic in Operating Room

    Phew... Well I finally relaxed enough on the field to think things through and take my time. While I have little blunders here and there, I'm experiencing waaaay less "tunnel vision". I like all of...

  14. Advice for surviving OR consortium!!

    divokevan replied to divokevan's topic in Operating Room

    Wow! I need to get an iphone with my new paychecks if you can easily type all that on it! Anyways, since I've had a couple of hours to debrief by working out, shopping and ... tanning :-(... I've...

  15. Advice for surviving OR consortium!!

    divokevan replied to divokevan's topic in Operating Room

    Yeah thanks for the pointers. Good to know even experienced RN's forget the small stuff sometimes. Next week we're scrubbing and we'll be doing that for 4 weeks. Hopefully, that's enough time to take...

  16. 2009 On-Call Pay Scales

    divokevan replied to openheartmary's topic in Operating Room

    4.50/hr plus time and a half with 4 hour min in WA state per

  17. Interview Shadow Day

    divokevan replied to LoriNJ's topic in First Year After Licensure

    Yeah I just did that. I graduated in December 09 (a couple of months ago) and have tried to make my application competitive for the OR since I started the program. However, to do the OR interviews, I...

  18. Student Nurses in OR???

    divokevan replied to catherine_cardella's topic in Operating Room

    I too am starting to think about a nurse-tech position in the OR at one of the local hospitals in Seattle. I don't know what they do that's different from the usual tasks of the SSA's so we'll see!...

  19. Best way to get into consortium

    divokevan posted a topic in Operating Room

    Hello, Background: Right now, I work in an ambulatory surgery center as a GI and OR/CS tech. My goal was to get some OR experience with people that would work with my schedule while I'm in school. I...

  20. Is nursing school done yet?

    divokevan replied to divokevan's topic in General Students

    Haha! It is a form of torture! I can't wait to leave my house, clinical, school 10mile radius! Maybe one day I'll even get my hair cut and get some new threads! I am a monster! Plus, right now its all...

  21. Is nursing school done yet?

    divokevan posted a topic in General Students

    As I sit here in my last few weeks of third quarter, I couldn't help but wonder if there are any other students out there going crazy in nursing school! I mean, I have a while to go and I already have...

  22. No one is answering questions from those wanting to learn about your field!

    divokevan posted a topic in Research

    Not to be rude, but I've noticed when people inquire about your work as research nurses, you don't post responses. I want to know what you do and what education it takes to get there! Don't be so...

  23. Formulating Healthcare Clinics for the Gay Community

    divokevan posted a topic in Nurse Practitioners, NP

    Hey there ARNP's! I was just wondering, as a nurse practitioner, does your scope of practice allow you to formulate various community sections of healthcare? As a nursing student in Seattle, I noticed...

  24. Formulating Healthcare Clinics for the Gay Community

    divokevan replied to divokevan's topic in Nurse Practitioners, NP

    What a great response! I think that any minority facing a health disparity should be focused on in terms of getting people to a place to discuss health problems, phychosocial support etc... This is...

  25. Formulating Healthcare Clinics for the Gay Community

    divokevan replied to divokevan's topic in Nurse Practitioners, NP

    That's so great that there really is a niche for this kind of healthcare, I've known I couldn't just stop at my RN and I've always been really interested in community health and the whole aspect of...