The Pros and Cons of OR nursing?

[ChrissyRN13]

I am currently a new RN, who has about 6 months experience on a Med-Surg unit. So to be completely honest, I AM OVER IT! I love my patients and what I do, its the disregard from higher ups that I dont like. My hospital is currently building two more floors even though we are severely understaffed and by understaffed, I mean my co-worker has had 9 patients, another nurse had close to 14 before they sent someone to help her. My hospital dont care about how that affects the nurses. In nursing school my instructor always drilled in our heads, its easy to get another job, its hard to get your license back if you lose it and that if we feel an assignment is unsafe just say no. At this point Im exhausted with having 6-7 patients with NO AIDE. So Im interested in doing something else, like OR nursing. So my question to all the OR nurses out there, what are the pros and cons of being a OR nurse?

[Rose_Queen, BSN, MSN, RN]

Chrissy, head on over to the OR forum and check out the FAQs tab and articles tab. Lots of information there.

[Argo]

There are a lot of cons to Med surg that do not exist in OR nursing. The ones that DO exist that are the same are the management issues. Managers are the same regardless of what department they are over and their purpose is also the same, keep the kids and the budget in line. Now there are good managers and bad managers but they come in both Medsurg and OR formats.....