Which specialty in the OR?

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Which OR specialty you would consider to be the most interesting and challenging?

Specializes in OR Hearts 10.

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Hearts of course!!!

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Currently CV & cath lab staff get an extra 7% because we have to take about 4 times as much call as everyone else. The word is that will stop for new members next month, Hoping no one leaves as that $$ is a good incentive to get folks on the :heartbeatTeam.

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At my hospital, a major ivy league institution in the Northeast, the top paying specialties are CVOR, Vascular, and Neuro. All three of these specialties cover their own call and get the specialty call rate of $10.50 an hour to hold the beeper. I am a new grad out of college for 2 years and made $71,000 last year due to the call pay and the overtime that all of us on the Neuro team make. The only down side is that we are a small team 4 nurses and 2 surgical technologist, who cover 6 surgeons and generally work around 50+ hours a week. We circulators generally get pulled if there is an add on or an emergent crani as our surgeons want one of their team members to scrub their cases. Keep in mind this is not typical of many different hospitals, at least in regards to neuro, as I have been told by many of the travelers. I have looked at other jobs but have found that I would take a pay cut in order to leave.

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As a scrub tech I always enjoyed doing big ortho fracture cases, each one different and it is really fun to figure out where all the pieces go. Another one that I enjoy doing are the spine cases. Especially spinal fusions. I do enjoy doing neuro, but unfortunatly I haven't been in on a crani case in several years, since I now live in a very rural area :( I really enjoyed the big vascular cases such as AAA, but fem pops were way too fiddly for me. Of course the big abd. cases are really fun, especally the big exonerations...not good for the pt, but very interesting to see the anatomy. I now am at a little hospital that does a lot of ACLs, spine and totals. I miss the big cases, but I got a job there as a new grad RN, so I will take it(and I'll still get to scrub and take scrub call!)

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Specializes in O.R., ED, M/S.
If anything, I would say ortho is the same thing all the time...especially total joints. I feel like I'm in an assembly line when I'm in a joint room. It's the same thing over and over again.

Agree totally with you. I don't like total joints at all. They are the same over and over. I like trauma ortho. Like a jig saw puzzle.

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