Marisaej

I used to work in busy trauma hospital, now in smaller hospital with only cold cases. I love the fact that in OR I constantly have to think on my feet, innovate, anticipate and be one step ahead of anything that can happen. Adrenaline junkie through and through. I love the fact that I can become so comfortable with a surgeon or anesthetist that I can anticipate needs before they even ask for something. Standing next to a table with an abdomen open and a surgeon up to his elbows trying to tie of a bleeder, and he knows he can trust me to just put out his hand and I will have the next instrument there, is quite a thrill. And knowing that I am an integral part in ensuring the patients survival. Love it!

I agree that you have to be assertive. Also be able to function independently, trust your own jugement and be very orginased. I am blessed with a very good visual memory, so that I can send my circular nurse or students to exactly the correct cupboard or shelf for a specific item. In the end, you either love OR or you hate it...very few are ambivilent...

I am lucky enough to be in the position of having 21 day's vacation leave plus 12 day's public holiday's each year. After 10 years service in my current position another 5 day's was added!! Bonus! You may be expected to do after hours call on public holiday's, but these are usually devided equally amongst the team. I try to schedule my leave in 2 week increments every 4-6 mnths to try and reduce the amount of burnout that is so common in OT.

Hi. Am a registered Nurse from South Africa. What would you like to know?

work in small hospital in south africa. Walk in one morning at 2am. whole family. on way for holiday and just wanted to get check up to make sure nothing was going to spoil the holiday.. the dr on call admitted both children for observation for the night...

Was standing in OR few weeks back, breaking pieces of bone graft up, thinking about the barbeque I would be having that night. Or watching a educational dvd on hip replacements while cooking dinner.. my friends were horrified.. Have also found myself expounding to patients on how beautiful and pink their granulating bedsores were.. have you ever commented on how beautifull an organ(liver,pancreas,gallbladder) looked, and meening it sincerely? Ohh man I have it bad..

I work in OR, Where very funny things come out post op:lol2::lol2:One patient was trying with all her might to get up out of bed, took 2 people to restrain her.. the reason? she was convinced she had to go out and buy some socks! IMEDIATLY!! Did not help when one of the surgeons came by and told her that the shop down the road had a sale on socks!!

can be very disconcertening!! prepped male pt for urology surgery only to find small black spider(with possability of turning into turantula!!)

Absolutely true!!!! of the male computers. Mine is deffinatly female. Simple, easy to use, and usually two steps ahead of the pack!!

Had a patient on night duty once who kept on making sugestive comments just to get a blush out of me. He was about 55-60 yrs old. One morning, as I was doing medication rounds he walked up to me and said. Am wearing my white t-shirt today. White for a virgin...It's a very old t-shirt...I could not help laughing at him, and he stopped trying to make me blush after that

While on night duty, at about 3 in the morning, one of our patients passed away. The charge siser had to call a porter to come and take the deceased to the morgue. She gave her name, and the patients name, and was very surprised to receive a rude comment and the phone put down in her ear. She was Sister Fox, and the patient, coincidently, was mr. Wolf...