Nurse Sasha

I love OR, calming my patient's fears, getting them properly positioned, foley inserted, prepped and draped. I love being a part of helping to save a trauma patient, what a rewarding feeling!

You cannot be a doormat unless you lie down. Perhaps you should stop agreeing to work overtime all the time. Don't apologize,just say that you can't stay late today.

You are on target there! Although it is a generalization and I am sure there are exceptions - I agree with you especially about the Orthopedic surgeons; in our town, the ortho and heart surgeons both win the bad reputation award for short fuses and m...

Before giving up totally on the OR, I suggest you consider a different specialty area. Some specialties are more difficult to love than others for various reasons ; surgeons and staff culture,etc.. For example in our house the cardiac and orthopedic ...

I'm sorry that you are having this bad experience. Though you and your fellow orientees have mentioned this to the educator, things have only lightened up a bit. You said that you didn't want to make things uncomfortable; yet - this person has alrea...

How about planning a special celebrate CST week where you have a special surprise for them each day? One day you could have a Make you own ice cream sundae party with all the sundae toppings and ice cream. Another day you could have gift cards for St...

Check out AORN.org for information on the Perioperative nurse's professional organization. The Annual AORN national conference hosts a student education session for student nurses at their expo each year. You can find info on the website - is there a...

Approach the team leader of the service you are interested in, and express your interest and desire to be a part of the team. Offer to help the team leader with any tasks that are needed. Ask the charge nurse to assign you to those rooms when possibl...

Hang in there, as others have stated it does take time to be comfortable in the OR (actually most new areas/jobs). Actually many ORs find the Nov. & Dec. Extremely busy times so you actually jumped in at the wildest time of the year - no wonder y...

Welcome to the OR ! It is the most exciting place to work that I have found in 41 years of nursing! Rose has given you some great advice! I would also recommend that you check out AORN , I have found it to be a great networking opportunity and a grea...

I have been in the OR for 28 years, and I have only seen this done once as the patient requested it due to her back problems. I would not be comfortable with this practice at all, and would consult with AORN regarding this practice. I would have a d...

Be patient, OR is very different and everyone takes time to adjust and learn! I borrowed a text book from one of our CSTs to study at home when I started in the OR, and it was so helpful to learn the instruments and read about suture and surgical pro...

If your hospital has similar nurse patient ratios with these same requirements and responsibilities on all units; perhaps you need to seriously consider leaving the institution - not just this unit. I have worked med - surg floors for years, but have...

The four hospitals in my area all use RN circulating nurses and CSTs to scrub. We have several nurses who have previous scrub tech experience who will scrub in when we are short staffed. Because of the salary difference, the hospitals don't want to p...

Document this - bullying, and public humiliation is not acceptable. Disruptive behavior should not be tolerated, and is a patient safety issue. A hospital that tolerates this physician behavior is in fact promoting this as acceptable! Write her up, t...

If your real goal is am OR position, you should focus on that. Make an appointment with the nurse manager of your OR to introduce yourself and find out if there are any open positions in the department. Ask how you could qualify for a job there, and ...

I think you would be justified in discussing this with the physician at the next visit. This is not acceptable care in my opinion, certainly advocate for your family member as well as the other patients who are subjected to this sub standard practice...

I have no experience in the home Heath field, never considered it an option. That being said; I would not complete any charting on another nurse's work that I did not observe. That seems to be falsifying medical records to me which seems to be a liab...

Don't jump ship again so quickly - it takes time to get more comfortable in the bigger OR settings with the more complex cases. The more you do them the more confident you will become and one day soon it will be like the light bulb clicks and you sud...