skydancer7 BSN, RN

Hello all, I want to get my vascular access certification. I am looking at their website, vacert.org but not finding anything in the way of study materials. Just an outline of test content. Can any of you help point me in the direction of some goo...

Hello! I have the opportunity to shadow a hospice nurse tomorrow. I have been a nurse for 7 years. I work at a hospital in med-surg currently, and the company has two hospice house locations. I don't know a ton about it, except that after seeing t...

I second the operating room circulator idea. I have been an OR nurse for 10 years. You do a brief patient interview and the rest of the time the patient is usually asleep. You do have to deal with surgeons, though, and they can be major stinkers a...

Hi all, eye surgery clinic circulating/scrubbing experiences? I have been an OR nurse for 10 years and have done some ophthalmology scattered in with other main OR cases back in the day, but this job I am about to get an offer for is 3 ORs and one L...

I know, I totally used to have the same reaction. I guess I got used to eyeballs over time ? Thanks for the Alexander's idea, I will try and find a copy asap!

CONGRATS, so glad you will be able to transfer! Sounds like that might work out best for you. Wishing you the best! Wish I would have gotten out of the OR sooner, but it got me to where I am today, so there's that ?

Hello again, I just re-read your initial post. If you have until end of June and are able to focus on just one specialty area, you might be okay! Is it the "right" specialty for you? Hard to know. But a year of OR experience is a solid stepping s...

Hello! I SO feel your pain. I have been in the OR almost 10 years now, though it seems like only yesterday I was brand new and terrified. How is the culture? Are surgeons overall respectful or are you being condescended to and talked down to all ...

Hello all, I am an RN with 10 years experience, been applying for 2-3 weeks now. I have had one interview, they checked references. A week later, no reply. Talked with HR at two other places, they say they will get back to me.... Are they just so ...

This makes sense. My area is not covid-flooded yet; we acted early and our curve is a lot flatter than places like NY, so census is VERY low especially for surgeries, and with OR being my specialty, no one wants me right now. I decided to stay in s...

WOW!. What a mess. Maybe I should not have taken leave from school after all... I have until tomorrow to change my mind ?

Thank you, that's really good to know and confirms what I was thinking is happening. It's kind of ironic and too bad; when they need help the most, it's hardest to get folks on-boarded. Put me in coach, I'm ready!

I am wondering the same. I haven only seen one ad for Oregon, a company I have never heard of called ALC staffing which has a one-star review on Google and no other web presence besides a shoddy website. Would love to hear which REPUTABLE agencies a...

Thank you. Wondering how hospitals are staffing up for this. It's about to blow up in my area, I am just waiting for the ads for crisis nurses needed but haven't seen anything yet. I guess I will start contacting hospitals. Don't want to get back...

Hello, I have an interview in a week for a level 1 trauma center hospital apheresis nurse position. They do total plasma exchange, extracorporeal photopheresis, LDL pheresis, stem cell collections, CAR-T collections, RBC exchange (for example for si...

YES circulators absolutely are supposed to do their own pre-op interview and intake. It is abbreviated compared to the admission intake, but should involve introductions, name and date of birth, allergies, metal in the body, hearing aids/contact lens...

He wasn't doing his job. He did not introduce himself. He did not do an appropriate pre-op interview and assessment. Sounds like he wore an outdoor jacket into an OR. Regardless of gender, this RN did not behave in a professional manner. I have ...

Male or female, I would also have been uncomfortable with a circulator who did not establish some base level of rapport, check my wrist band, and ask me all the questions that have already been asked 3 times by everyone else. There is more to being ...

Life is too short to be so miserable. I completely understand. I also became severely depressed during nursing school and was making myself physically, mentally, emotionally ill trying to do the job after I graduated. I ended up in the operating r...

OP, I am concerned about your negative self-talk. Would you speak to a friend the way you are speaking to yourself? If you saw a colleague forget to log off, would you say "wow, you are a FAILURE and should just quit right now." We don't talk to oth...

My same day surgery center was 10 hour shifts. HOWEVER!!!! If surgeries are running late, you could be there 3-4 hours past the end of your shift. There is no night shift to take over; you leave when surgeries are done and patients are discharged. ...

I would quit IMMEDIATELY, no 2 week notice. This is UNSAFE, and I usually don't recommend quitting without 2 week notice, except in situations like these where it is unsafe and you are being so obviously screwed over. I would simply call or email s...

Nope nope nope. Because a) not relevant to the job position, unless you are trying to get hired as a model or actor b) increases the chance of discrimination bases upon looks c) distracts from important points of your resume, such as your actual sk...

I disagree with requiring med/surg first; they are too different. I started immediately in the operating room. However, the place I started had an AORN periop 101 training program that lasted 6 months. That is what's most important, in my experien...

Glad you have received such wonderful support here! I have had preceptors like that and at a certain point I confronted one. I said "it seems like you are pretty upset that you are stuck precepting me today. How about I go talk to the manager abou...