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Thanks for all the responses. We are also a teaching center and so far everyone is sooooo nice! Even the surgeons are nice and ready to teach (so far) and I can't wait to see what else I have coming in the future with this job. Thanks for the congratulations btw!

Not in Charlotte, I'm in Winston Salem. I'm a week in so far and it's great! Good luck to you also!

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Hello fellow nurses! Feels great to join the community of RNs! I'm bran new, NCLEX passed a little over one week ago :-) I will be starting in an OR training program at a level 1 trauma center where I will learn to circulate and scrub (we rotate through each service then will be placed in the service of our choice, if able, at the end of training). I am looking forward to this new journey...to prepare appropriately I have purchased required text books for the program but I would like to know from current OR RNs what else I might find helpful starting out in the OR??? Any materials that will be helpful? And most certainly any words of advice about anything....maybe things you wished you had known when you were bran new in the OR? Thanks so much :-)

Hello, I am a 2nd semester nursing student at a local community college. I will begin my clinical rotation at a very well known teaching hospital in the area - on the cardiac/thoracic floor. Took the tour of the unit on Friday and to put it simply, I am scared to death of this unit. Crash carts and chest tubes everywhere and the hospital itself is soo intimidating. I know, with this being a teaching hospital, that I have been presented with an amazing learning opportunity, and I am greatful for this. However, I dont feel adequate (just yet) to take care of such critical patients. I guess what I am looking for is some advice about how to handle the intimidation of this unit....how to overcome this fear of "cardiac unit". I enjoyed cardiac sections in my other classes (A&P, Fundamentals of RN) but all I can think about is what if my pt codes and I dont respond right? That freaks me out! I started my first clinical rotation at a smaller (but very busy) hospital that did your "routine" scheduled surgeries. I wasnt exposed the "real hospital" enviroment until now. I feel that I have a good instructor, but Im afraid she expects me to know more than what I do. At this point, I know I am overwhelmed, theres no questions about that, but Im scared...like I dont want to this roataion Im so scared. But I know I have to. Maybe it is fear of the unknown? Maybe it is lack of self confidence in my nursing knowledge? Any advice, tips, past/present experiences would be greatly appreciated! Thank you.