ArmyMomJo

Possible opportunity to get a job right after graduation in the OR, which I think I could like, but feel I may get stuck there and not be able to get back out on the med/surg floor. Will I lose all those skills I have just learned in school while on the med/surg floor or should I bite the bullet and go for the OR position. Please help from those who have been in my position. What are your opinions?

Thanks for the heads up. I am still a nursing student and it just made sense to not try to kill them before they could get better.

At clinicals this last week, an alcoholic was admitted and made to go cold turkey. It seemed to me that giving him a drink would have taken the edge off instead of putting him into DT's and making his life completely miserable. This is his 6th time in the hospital for over drinking and his liver is pretty much gone. Probably won't make it in again. What do you think of a physician writing for an alcoholic beverage?