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I completely agree with everything that has been said. Why apply for a job that you know you will not be able to perform, and why should your coworkers have to do your job for you? If you are not capable to save a life because of your religion then.....why are you in nursing at all?. Nursing is about the patient,not your religion. I say find another career.

Thank You Ladies!! I just applied to a mother-baby position and it requires no prior nursing experience. I will do that if hired and then transition to L/D....Wish me luck!!! :)

To all L/D nurses I have this question. How did you get hire to the L/D unit without having the experience? I am a new grad who got hired immediately after graduating to the or without experience. I thought it would give me enough experience to later transition to L/D department. It has been 6 months but I hate it there. I want to try to go to L/D but all the hospitals require at least one year experience...... I don't understand, how did the nurses there get their experience in the first place?. Please help!!! and thank you!

Congratulations to both of you..however you might want to read what another nurse using this same sit e had to say about her trying to get a job in another unit with no success. The or will only prepare you for the or and very little nursing goes on, you do more mechanical work than actual nursing. You plug machines in, you move heavy equipment, you position patients on the table, you place ground pads ans scd's on your patient, you document on a computer and you run,jump,sit,lay,etc when your tech tells you to or the doctor. you spend your day facilitating instruments and other things for the tech and the doctor and very little time doing actual nursing. Even the accuchecks are done by anesthesia, apparently in the or nurses are not even capable of checking a blood sugar. You spend your day pluging and unpluging,hawling machinery around as well as or beds,and not much else. Like you both I recently graduated as an RN as was given the opportunity to work in the OR...I hate it, the worse mistake i have evr done, i dont even remember most medications now, you will never again have the opportunity to even come up with a careplan or even think. all you do is follow commands....dont do it!!!

I have to tell you I was in your shoes about 4 months ago. I just recently graduated as an RN in April and was hired an an OR nurse.I spent about a month reading this very same site and trying to understand what I was getting myself into. I am not trying to insult anybody out there but OR nursing is not for everyone. First of all you will spend your day reading preference cards and running around getting things for the tech who will say to you....You guys are the OR *******, you are the doctors ******* and you are our *******....and you know what....it is true! your day starts with your morning meeting around the core desk to get your assignment,then you run to your room to get preference cards to get an idea of what to get for the case but the catch is.... you have not idea of what it is you are supposed to get, then you start connecting things in your room(you spend most of the day trying to figure out where to plug things so it all runs smoothly)....no nursing yet! then you turn every single thing on to make sure it all works..bovie,suction, storz tower ,etc....does any of this sound like anything you learned in school?....anyway then you run to see your patient for about 15 minutes you make sure all signatures are in the chart, make sure blood is available etc(only part of the day where some nursing applies) the you take your pt back to the room. Anesthesia does all the work(iv, antibiotics,give blood ,etc) you only watch them at work. then when the doctor comes in after positioning you get to call a time out, they start, and you start documenting on the computer(no time to watch anything) then the tech starts asking for things, you get to run around the or like a mad woman and after it is all done you get to do it all over again....sounds like fun? not for me , my advise dont do it!!!! good luck!