Comments on: How to do the best job as a surgical nurse – from a surgeon

By: NursesPTO

NursesPTO — Fri, 20 Nov 2009 12:59:02 +0000

[...] under Nursing This entry is part 2 of 2 in the series Being the best nurseBeing the best nurseHow to do the best job as a surgical nurse – from a surgeonScrub nurse tips When I read Rachael’s new post on how to be a better scrub nurse, it got me [...]

By: NursesPTO

NursesPTO — Wed, 04 Nov 2009 13:14:12 +0000

[...] I really don’t know much about these nurses. We rarely ever see them, and in ICU it is typically not a good thing when an OR nurse is the one bringing your patient back from the OR because it could only mean one of two things, either they were too sick to go to recovery or they were coding in the OR and were rushed back to the unit so as not to count against the surgeon’s statistics…Either way, we prefer not to see them I know they do wonderful things in the OR and have to deal with the wrath of surgeons, so for this I commend them. BTW, you can read about what it takes to be a good surgical nurse from our very own Dr. Rachael Keilin:Surgical nursing tips. [...]

By: jennifer smith

jennifer smith — Sun, 01 Nov 2009 00:41:20 +0000

How come you never bought me beer….hmmmmphhh..lol. I have to agree with what you said here.. ANTICIPATION! I was lucky enough to be trained by “yoda” of the scrub world, Carl. He was the king of anticipation and in the height of a trauma stayed so calm. His surgeon never had to wait for him to get another (insert what might be needed here).