Everyone in this room is an O.R. nurse, just curious what TYPE of O.R. nursing you guys do? I am at a small hospital so we do genereral surgery (lap chole, hernia, bowel obstruction, etc) and Ortho cases such as ankle fx, removal hardware, knee/shoulder arthroscopy, etc.
In a few years I hope to work in plastics ( I did my preceptorship at a HUGE University campus, UMASS Memorial Center , and did plastics, ortho, neuro, and some ENT cases). Also did some cardiac which I do not like..haha I love plastics though.
I am very strong in general, and I also do pretty well in gyn, although I hate that service. I can get by in most other services with the more basic procedures except for hearts. I've never even seen one, but I do sometimes work with the CV surgeons when they do thoracotomies or AAA repairs. The longer I work in the OR, the more I want to become well rounded so that I can go into any room and do any case.
I do everything but robots and hearts/thoracic. My main area is trauma ortho and trauma neuro. I do a lot of bowel, choles, appys, cystos, and facial fractures. Can you tell I work after hours?
Specializes in Trauma Surgery, Nursing Management.
I used to do lots of sports med surgery, but that gets really boring. Then I did mostly trauma. My favorite is a big ex-lap surgery! LOVE IT! I also like doing surg/onc.
I do mostly thoracic, some general and bits of cardiac, vascular and ortho spine. Thoracic is the service I started in and I love it the most. I scrub and circulate. Still have more services to learn because I take general call I also need to be well rounded.
I am not on a team and I told my job I don't want to be. I do it all, I might go from general to ortho to neuro to cysto in one day. I don't see how some nurses like seeing the same thing day in and day out. I get bored really quick. My floor has: ortho, neuro, cysto, general, some plastics,robots, rare gyn, breasts, and l and d cases. ENT and bari cases were moved we are supposed to start doing livers. We have a floor specially for breast, one specifically for gyn. Across the street is outpatient cases. My facility is huge and has a place for everything. CVOR is on my floor but they have their own team and so does the eyes. WE dont get to scrub just circulate.
lockheart678
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I am very strong in general, and I also do pretty well in gyn, although I hate that service. I can get by in most other services with the more basic procedures except for hearts. I've never even seen one, but I do sometimes work with the CV surgeons when they do thoracotomies or AAA repairs. The longer I work in the OR, the more I want to become well rounded so that I can go into any room and do any case.