cmars555

Ok so here is my situation. I am a nursing student in the fourth year of my program doing my final focus at the OR. I am almost always in ortho, doing cases such as total hips and knees. I also spend a some days in ophthamology and 2 days in plastics. I have been there for two months, and have been getting the sense that I am not catching on fast enough. So far I have only scrubbed by myself once which was for a bilateral breast reduction. The other two students who are in the OR have both spent all their time in gyne, plastics, and general. They are both able to regularly scrub by themselves at this point. I had thought that the reason I was not scrubbing by myself is because I am in ortho and ophthamology and those are more complicated in general. My preceptor today told me I'm not doing as well as the others. Then she told me to scrub in for an eye operation and I was extremely nervous the whole case. The problem is I am almost done, only five shifts left. I had thought I was doing fine until now and was planning on trying to go into the OR, but now am not sure. I'm just wondering if there is anyone else who struggled a bit at first, but then got the hang of it later? When days are good I really like the OR, but if I don't have a penchant for it maybe I should move on. Can anyone relate to this? Some guidance would be much appreciated! C

Hi! I'm a nursing student currently doing my final focus in the OR. I have been there about two months now and have so far been only in Ortho, mostly doing total hips and knees, much to the chagrin of many physicians. It's a very steep learning curve and I feel like a fool often, but I'm beginning to get the hang of things. My question however pertains to getting fat and blood on my gloves, which makes them super slippery, which causes me to take a second to pick up the instruments, which adds to the glares i get by the people who are not happy about having a student in ortho. Does anyone have a trick for decreasing the slipperiness of my gloves? I try to clean them off but once the fat gets on them it takes awhile to get it off. I did warn you this might be a stupid question! Any advice would be very appreciated. Thank you for your time. C.