ShannonRN2010

I have worked as both a circulator and a PACU nurse...both have their own challenges. I prefer to circulate...but I have been pulled to recovery and pre-op as well to work

I would have done the same thing!!

I learned real quick like to not as the male scrub tech "Do you want me to hold your thing?" when assisting him tie in (the card on the exterior of the gown.)

I will be starting my final year as an undergrad student. I am finishing my BSN in less than 9 months!!! I start this fall semester with a 3.33 GPA

One of the funniest quotes ever: You know you're a nurse when you've seen more memberes than a prostitute! I think I just got used to it. I mean, when you remember that what you're doing is helping someone who needs help, it helps. I mean, its normal to feel that way. We are conditioned to veiw nudity in a certain manner, but in health care all that flies out the window!

I can honestly say, everyday I leave work, I feel like my nursing skills are challenged. Its a very assessment oriented area. You have to be on your A game with assessment skills! I don't doubt that you will be like me, I was a floor nurse and an LTC nurse before this, so medicating with the order of fentanyl 25mcg q5min X8 doses, freaked me out! srsly! medicating so heavily is what I have had the hardest time with.

I was a newish RN with LTC experience and about 8 years LPN experience. I am suppose to be a circulator, however, I have been in PACU for five months and I think that I have functioned well. I carry my own load okay. I would like to get more experience with critical patients because that just scares me a little.

Every child that we see gets versed and a fair share have sevo. That being said, some kids act better than others. I keep hearing that how a kid goes to sleep is how they wake up... I have learned (in 5 short months) to expect the unexpected with kids... I hate kid's day BTW.

My understanding is that where I work, yes the OR must hold until a spot opens up in PACU. Of course, when that happens, they all come out of the woodwork to help PACU get them moved out.

I did that schedule for a bout 9 months while my mom took chemo....I was never so glad to be off that shift in my life! (made good shift diff though!)

THere are a lot of pre-op check offs, allergies, site marking, consent verification, patient verification, pre-op antibiotics according to the SCIP protocol, labs, cardiac clearence. I am still fairly new to the OR area, but I think all of these are pretty important to the well being of the patient. I know nothing else to help ya out! Sorry!

A writer....I'll do that someday...

COngrats!!!!

I would teach him that rate of pain is the 5th vital sign. Then I would have him review histories of patients that are on chronic pain management. If all else fails, throw out the whole "Would you want your grandfather/mother ect. laying here in this condition, noone asking them if they hurt?" How do we know they hurt if we don't ask them...nursing school didn't teach me mind reading at all!

My LPN education was amazing! It was hard and it challenged me. I was more than prepared for the workforce and eventually RN school. In fact, if it hadn't have been for the level of education that I got from my LPN school, I would have been lost in RN school. The school I went to is known in this area as the best LPN school around and that they produce high quality nurses...which is why I went there.