Sardonic Nurse replied to erirn's topic in Operating Room
I often feel the same way you do. I have been doing this job for 3.5 years now, I only circulate, sometimes I don't know all the instrumentation, and although I am in charge at night, my scrub techs...
Tonight I came in to relieve someone in a laparoscopic case and noticed that the screen was right over the back table. I almost freaked but this was the position in which the surgeon could see best....
Ok, so I know that nurses who scrub make better circulators. However, I took the periop 101 course right out of nursing school and was never taught how to scrub. Many of the nurses here, especially...