michele742

Since I graduated nursing school, I networked very hard to get a position in the OR. Since I started this journey a few years ago, the OR was the only place I wanted to be. Now, I am in full swing in the OR with preceptors and I can tell you, your...

Hi there :) I am an amateur, as I just started in the OR right out of nursing school on July 8th. However, as a circulator in the OR we check in the patient at pre-op and when the case is over we move with anesthesia with the patient to PACU and giv...

Oh no! I'm so sorry Whoops Well, let me tell you...just from the sound of it...sounds like their 'periop' program is nonexistent. Having said that, I immediately felt like it was their failure in not training you that lead to this...NOT YOURS!! ...

I'm a new OR nurse, just out of school too! I have been in the periop 101 program for one month now. For the first month we did nothing but bookwork and meetings to go over the bookwork. Everything from sterile technique to putting items on the fi...

I am a brand new OR nurse (graduated May 2013) and we are being taught "Circulating" only. We have plenty of surgical techs and they are the ones who scrub in. We are a 528 bed facility and we only use the techs for scrubbing in a case.

I passed my NCLEX...cut me off at 110 questions. I only used Saunders. I opted out of Kaplan too...too expensive for my blood

I am also a brand new RN...just passed my boards last week and was hired for an OR periop program. I'm very excited :) But, I must admit, I have absolutely no idea what language you all are speaking in...other than supine and trocar...lol...but tha...

Hi all :) I am a brand new RN grad (ADN) and I was just offered a position as an OR nurse in a perioperative program for one of my local hospitals. I worked tirelessly behind the scenes...contacting the nurse educator for the OR, the hiring manager...

CONGRATULATIONS!!!! I just got 'pinned' on April 29th and I also have been offered an RN position in the OR :) They are waiting for me to pass my boards but as the OR hiring manager said, "You're in! Now we are just waiting for you to take the boa...

Hi all! Update :) I have been formally offered a job in the OR!! They are holding it for me until I pass my NCLEX. So, looks like I will be an OR nurse. I'm very excited! So, off to the OR boards I go...but again, thank you for all your feedbac...

Hello there! I am currently in an RN program for my ADN. I graduate in May. I worked at ** ******** in the OR as a PCT for 6 months and I most recently worked as a PCT in Neurology at **** Clinic for 6 months (resigned to finish out my last term i...

Hi all :) So, here I am graduating on Monday with my ADN...based on your feedback and my own research, I decided that becoming an LNC or Case Manager from home would have to wait. So, I decided to stick with what I love, the OR. I have had two in...

Thank you all so very much! Oh, and for the poster who seemed harsh...didn't bother me in the least :) Trust me...I have very thick skin and I am secure in my reasons for wanting to be a nurse that I don't feel I have to work on the floor to prove my...

Hi all :) I'm a nursing student in my first term and just wanted to thank you for all the feedback on this thread. Right now I am trying to get into the OR as an ACP while in school. I LOVE OR/PACU. I worked a stint in OR/PACU some time ago and lo...

I'm a nursing student in my first term and I decided to go to a hospital job fair today. It was quite the eye opener!! RN's who passed NCLEX last May and beyond STILL looking for a nursing position. I know I am jumping the gun, but I really want t...

I am just curious about something...when I worked as a patient technician in OR/PACU, I remember sitting around chit chatting with some of the nurses and one nurse was talking about the worst surgery she had ever been on was a D&C for an ectopic ...

Hi Jess :) I think a lot of us that were on this thread have been hanging over at the facebook page more...look me up and I will send you the link to the page: Michele Holt . :)

I'm so sorry you didn't get in this time Shiverphone If this is something you really want to do then you need to keep at it. I couldn't go first time around back in 2003...here it is 8 years later and I am finishing what I started. I know it's dis...

I think I found you! I sent a request :)

Chzwoman - lol!!:) Don't you go there sister! We are in!!! Besides, the email is directly from her...I was thinking that it probably was sent through email because of the time constraints and her being on vacation. Just my guess...I also am guessing...

BTW Chzwoman....THANK YOU SO MUCH!!! If not for you, I would still be waiting for the letter in the mail instead of checking my email. You are WONDERFUL :) I look forward to meeting all of you! Congrats everyone!

Me TOO!!! CONGRATS EVERYONE! my score was 205.34

No :) But I did take Microbiology this summer at the downtown campus.

I think you will be fine :) Honestly, I think you are in there with your points. :) Of course, only the letter will tell...but unless the cutoff has jumped dramatically for some reason (in which I would be denied as well), I believe you did well :)

I was going through some quotes and I love these: In the end, a person is only known by the impact they have on others. - Jim Stovall Continuous effort---not strength or intelligence--is the key to unlocking our potential. -Winston Churchill ...