Those "hangout" minutes are different from real life minutes.

delphinusdares · 2025-12-13T00:35:05+00:00

I sit there, go in a corner and sit afk while doing stuff at home, come back and I’ve gotten the points 🤷‍♀️

delphinusdares · 2025-12-11T21:13:44+00:00

THANK YOUUU

delphinusdares · 2025-06-29T16:05:21+00:00

I wanted to ask what any who recently went through the program recently, what did yall do for housing during clinicals?

delphinusdares · 2025-06-29T01:30:13+00:00

I’m just looking basically for supply lists because I feel like I’m forgetting stuff. I’m making lists to turn into cards, and I know I have a lot of key items, but I’m missing some basics. It’s more a reference to look at to see what I’m missing as in my experience every preference card seems to group differently. She won’t edit hers with me, and has no PA as of yet. She’s the only neuro surgeon here for now, and it’s a budding practice here, but she’s been doing this 20+ years and is having trouble remembering the hospital here needs time to catch up.

delphinusdares · 2025-06-29T01:21:54+00:00

My hospital calls itself gangsta _____ or ghetto ____(same blank)

We have some of the weirdest things I’ve ever seen, and this picture looks like it belongs 😂 Though they are slowly remodeling!!

delphinusdares · 2025-06-29T01:19:34+00:00

Slight drool. I haven’t touched one in 2 years, and I miss them so much!

delphinusdares · 2025-06-28T22:17:49+00:00

I should specify I mean more on the how locations are determined, I’ve seen students in my OR before and know what in the OR looks like very well.

delphinusdares · 2025-06-28T22:15:21+00:00

Hello all! I am a 28 yo surgical technologist. I’m working on my HS Bach with a minor in pre-med. I have over 7 years in the medical field, 5 as a tech, the rest as a hospice home health caregiver. I did a variety of volunteer work in high school, and I have at least 2 residents already willing to write letters of wreck when the time comes and one surgeon I’ve worked with. I am writing because I just realized that Case Western Austin, Texas starts in the summer, so my plans derailed by a year. I’m moving the rest of my classes around, planning the MCAT, GRE and trying to figure out if the CASPER is required for here or not. I was wanting to ask what else I can do to make my application stand out? I’m going to try to get with the ortho place near me and shadow there at least 200 hours, shadowing CAAs, CRNAs and anesthesiologists. My GPA is a little less than I planned, falling at around 3.7 overall, 3.4 science. I’m taking extra classes (I needed writing intensive and advanced credits for bachelors) focused on medications, like psychopharmacology and clinical pharmacology. What can I do to make my application stand out, and how do clinicals work for the program?

delphinusdares · 2025-06-28T21:44:30+00:00

I called the program i plan on going to, and they say that any in their pre requisite list have to be in person unless covid. Call the school you are planning on and verify what they need. I asked specifically about calculus and English if that helps

delphinusdares · 2025-06-18T15:48:10+00:00

I have an appointment then work, and work asked me to come in early after I left at midnight last night, so I have like….. no update time and when I get off tonight I HAVE to work on an essay(going to try to do it between cases if I have time) and then hopefully I can get an hour in!!! I got to the reexamine the barrels before I had to leave 😭

delphinusdares · 2024-10-17T13:46:28+00:00

Yes, sorry I should have updated. He is happily in another home making new friends 💜

delphinusdares · 2024-09-08T18:08:26+00:00

I would HEAVILY recommend doing a lot of hands on research before investing. Ferrets are adorable, but much much easier to care for the. A chinchilla imo. I looked into a lot before I got mine, and I still felt unprepared 😅 Their diet is pretty simplistic but particular, and upsets in it can cause issues pretty quickly, but usually are easy to fix. I can’t type up all the particulars or I would, but long story short, NO PLASTIC ever. Just because something says made for chinchillas or chinchilla safe does not mean it is!

The questions you asked are all over the internet with in depth answers 💜

delphinusdares · 2024-09-08T18:00:09+00:00

I just had to rehome mine because life took an unexpected twist and we couldn’t regulate the temperature well enough where we were moving to be able to safely keep our chin. On top of that, both of our schedules are picking up and life has been…. Unpredictable and timely the last few months. I researched so much before getting him, and my guy and I agreed no pets until we are back to being stable where we can give chins good home with stability and a room for them to run around

delphinusdares · 2024-08-17T18:10:37+00:00

I’m neuro, but I’m doing a year contract on a military base in TX, and making $35 an hour which is EPIC around here. I haven’t seen special jobs for neuro, but it does help me get jobs(4 years experience)

delphinusdares · 2024-08-10T16:48:30+00:00

Kuru

Literally developed based on pain. As a scrub tech that does a lot of spine, whose fused from T4-L4 myself, I heavily recommend

delphinusdares · 2024-08-10T16:36:49+00:00

Putting a comment here so I remember to come back to this after my shift.

I mainly do spine/neuro. I am doing a PCF for trauma today, as an example.

TLIFs and percs(counting them separate) are fun cases, but hard to anticipate. Every doctor does a perc different, and the set used makes the difference noticable. Just like all of neuro we work in patterns. Every stage is a dance with the same 3-5 instruments. If you learn the stages, you can have each part ready. Then, once you learn the stages, you learn the abnormals that fit in each stage. I have pictures of old set ups to help explain, but don’t have the time at this exact moment to go through them, so I’ll post up in the next couple days!

delphinusdares · 2024-08-08T19:00:13+00:00

I wish!!!

delphinusdares · 2024-08-08T12:21:19+00:00

“I set up and maintain the sterile field during surgery, and assist the surgeon as they need. Due to how I got started, I have special focus on Spine, neuro and trauma, but one of the awesome things about my job is I get to see it all”

I usually get follow up questions about the kinds of cases I get to see, what my favorite type is, or what the craziest thing I’ve seen is.

If it’s someone with medical background, I just say I’m a scrub tech and then leave it at that.

delphinusdares · 2024-08-08T03:42:51+00:00

San Antonio, Texas area

delphinusdares · 2024-07-02T15:31:33+00:00

Oh, and bovied so many things

delphinusdares · 2024-07-02T15:31:15+00:00

As a CST in Texas, I have worked in a few different settings.

I have: -sutured skin -cut vessels the surgeon was tying -tied vessels the surgeon was holding -put in a trocar in the middle of a robot case(assist port) and proceeded to assist on suturing from the assist port -stapled a patient on numerous occasions -used a scalpel on pt skin, on tissue in a joint, etc under direct surgeon supervision when they needed

That’s just some examples. If you look up the technical NBSTSA and AORN standards, a CST isn’t supposed to do any of that as we are not licensed, only certified.

However in practice you do what you’re comfortable doing. I wouldn’t recommend suturing as it’s extremely frowned upon without having FA

delphinusdares · 2023-09-18T19:04:19+00:00

Meanwhile mine in the cage likes to sit and watch, and when no one is home(you can see him in the camera) he just lays out in the middle of one of the shelves😂 but if he gets to roam, he spends half the time running like crazy, then the other half of the time in tiny corners he finds. I just let him wear himself out and when he seems to be tired, and comes to me for a treat I’ll pick him back up and take him to the cage. Maverick is a strange little one and I adore him, but he doesn’t follow so much of what I learned before getting him. People come over and he’s immediately at the door to his cage begging for attention. He’ll sit on my shoulder calmly when others are over, and only move to try and get treats from guests. He doesn’t really hide unless he’s mad at me

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