Hi, I am a nurse myself for a long time, this question is to all you nurse practitioners for my daughter who is in her first year of college, wanting pre-med, she also wants information on NP's or PA's, would love to hear more positives or negatives, I work with PA's in OR area, how tough is it to get into PA programs? Is there more flexibility for NP's???
Hi I have worked in a same day surgery area for a long time, from my experience don't worry about discharge instructions because individual surgeons in my experience write out what they want their discharge instructions to include. our unit has some common instructions for all patients, such as no alcohol or driving or making important decisions for 24 hrs, then depending on type of surgery there are specific instr for gyn, orthopedic, eye, neuro, etc. I believe your unit will have discharge instructions for you to follow. Good luck