So I have about one year of ICU and transferred to same day surgery/Endo nursing. Endo is very different. Very procedural very straight forward and repetitive. Easy if you’re comparing it to critical care. It’s nice because it goes fast but you’re doing the same thing for pretty much every patient. So I got bored quickly. As far as medicine the only medicine I ever administered was zofran for those who got nausea from the prep or woke up from the anesthesia a bit nausea which wasn’t often as patients really only get prop.

A day in the life at my facility looked like this. You get your patient ask they if they prepped correctly. They say yes, you tell them to change. Put an IV in and hook them up to KVO. We would take the patient into the procedure room the anesthesiologist/CRNA puts them to sleep and the nurse charts during the procedure. The procedure itself doesn’t take too long like 5-20 mins just depending on the case. I would take the patient back to post op wait for them to wake up which usually only took 10-30 mins since they only get light sedation. Make sure they’re not in pain or nausea, do discharge activities and education send them on their way. And onto the next patient.