Katri

I work in an OR with 16 rooms so we are wide open most days... Our orientation requires that we rotate through the services including Ortho, Neuro, Open Heart, Urology, General and GYN, we also go through the Recovery Room, Holding area and our Central Processing dept... the services we spend 2-3 weeks in then a few days in RR, Holding and CIPD. We are assigned a preceptor for each service with checklist to be completed by us and the preceptor. We also have tests on things like Asepsis, Counts, the Steris, Autoclaves, and general disinfection...We always have the opportunity to talk with the Educ Director to let her know what we feel we are missing or what we are needing and she comes around and seeks us out to see if we are doing ok and feeling comfortable... Does this help at all??? LOL Good luck

I worked as an LPN for several years before going back to school for my RN... before LPN i was a CNA....It doesnt matter what title you hold as long as you are competent and love what you do. Granted I can now do or have to do alot more than I did as an LPN...but in the end there is only one thing that matters to all of us and that is the patients safety and well-being.... and as I had always heard.. just because someone has RN behind their name doesnt mean that they are a Real Nurse.... some of the best nurses I have worked with are LPN's... and as for student nurses... we all had to learn at some point.