Operating room nurse for seven years. Works in the scrub, scout and anaesthetic nurse role. Favourite specialities include cardiac and neurosurgery. I am interested in doing trauma in the future. I enjoy education and humanitarian work.
I am responsible for teaching a new nurse to scrub, gown and glove. Last week I gave the new nurse the hospital policy on scrubbing, gowning and gloving and also asked her to read the section on this...
Hi everyone I would love to hear about how you orientate new nurses to your departments. For instance, is there a certain structure that you follow? Do you have a checklist that you use? I have...
As mentioned before by other people before there are distinct roles in the operating room - the scout nurse, scrub nurse and anaesthetic nurse. Depending on where you work some of these roles may...
That is interesting CIRQL8 what you have said about calling in a second on-call team. So does that mean you have two on-call teams on all the time? How many staff do you have working in your OR? Our...
Hi everyone I have been an operating room nurse for nearly eight years. I really enjoy what I do but I have had dreadful call ins over the last month. Over one weekend I worked an extra 20 hours on...