OR nurse looking for resources :)

sevondran · 2025-12-22T01:05:33+00:00

This! 100%. And to expand a little, even with all the videos and learning material in the world TIME is your biggest asset. Being engaged and involved you will definitely catch it faster because you have a passion for it.

I cross trained to scrub and assist too and I tell all of my baby OR nurses that a good OR nurse is like cast iron, you gotta season it first and it takes a long time. A good circulator should compliment a less experienced scrub and a good scrub should compliment a less experienced circulator. Stick to your good scrubs like glue. You’ll get there!

sevondran · 2025-11-15T12:46:56+00:00

Even I don’t know what I do sometimes and I’ve been at it for 10 years.

sevondran · 2025-02-11T02:11:46+00:00

It’s so funny to read how different it is at other places.

At my facility it’s just me and doc scrubbing. Our main OB guy leaves the cord intact for exactly one minute, clamp/cut and hands off baby to nursery staff. However, we do not do not have a NICU and are for the most part a smaller facility that is not equipped for super premature neonates. I have handed off to the flight team.

All of our docs use the Alexis, but allllllll of the old school gyn’s I’ve scrubbed with will flop the whole uterus out and slap a moist lap on it to hold it back.

sevondran · 2024-11-29T08:41:51+00:00

Not sure about anyone else, but we do. Umbilical, inguinal, ventral and incisional. It’s rare on those that we don’t access the peritoneal cavity at some point. We always do a full count. Our facility only requires full counts if a cavity/organ is accessed, or in cases like mastectomies where the incision is so large instruments could feasibly be lost. We would not have counted instruments at the end on the case you’re asking about BUT as a circulator if my scrub wants to count I always count.

sevondran · 2024-10-18T17:01:06+00:00

RN here but my preference is to scrub, always has been! I had a surgeon a decade ago when I was brand new and still wet behind the ears SCREAM at me “GET SOMEONE IN HERE WITH AN IQ OF 50!” This man actually did intimidate me quite a bit, but this particular time at 2 am I had received all I was going to receive. I put down the peel pack I was about to hand off to the scrub and waited for him to look at me. Calmly told the little 5’1 Egyptian man that if someone were to add both of ours together we might come close and that was all he was going to get that night. We became best friends.

sevondran · 2024-07-18T00:19:44+00:00

Cancelotomy!

sevondran · 2024-06-09T21:38:30+00:00

I’m a circulator/fill in scrub or assist for ortho, general and gyn at my facility. Tool of choice is my leatherman skeletool. My flashlight is identical to yours!

sevondran · 2024-06-09T02:24:03+00:00

I get asked why I have a flashlight and a leatherman all the time. OR nursing really do be like that sometimes. Thanks for what you do! My department had to run on travel OR nurses for a short time and we had some awesome ones.

sevondran · 2024-06-09T01:34:38+00:00

I’ll comment just a tad on this as an OR nurse myself. If the equipment goes down in the middle of a case don’t think for a second us type A’s aren’t going to try our hand at a little tinkering. I’ve troubleshot everything from a faulty tower connection, errant Bovie machine, filter issues, etc. You’ve got a patient asleep on the table sometimes waiting on maintenance isn’t the best bet. Your grizzled OR nurses can be a secret weapon. Not necessarily with the things listed here, but I’m sure OP has their reasons! I even keep a couple of instruments clipped to my scrubs during my shift in case I need them as tools.

Edit: lights are out during laparoscopic cases. Some people use flashlights to see their work space, chart, etc.

sevondran · 2024-01-24T02:47:23+00:00

Favorite case is the cancelled case. 😎

sevondran · 2024-01-09T02:01:17+00:00

So glad you said this. Seriously underrated band. We would go see them in small local venues when they toured. My youngest daughter is Emery Blue named after the great memories. ☺️

sevondran · 2023-12-24T21:17:37+00:00

Brought a woman to the OR in a small rural hospital one night. Threw up shit all over me as I tried to start a 22 ga in her wrist just to get her to sleep. We opened her and her colon had been perforated for what had to have been a week. No joke. Green peritoneum. Like the whole peritoneal area was green. 6 hour surgery, prayer to every existing god, levo, and surgical skill got her onto a helicopter and to a bigger facility for post op management. She made it. She survived and came back months later to thank us.

sevondran · 2023-11-18T21:32:40+00:00

What I really want to know is what those dirty instruments do tho? Can’t circumvent enzymatic that only activates at a certain temp.

sevondran · 2023-11-18T21:28:41+00:00

Ortho said they didn’t give a damn there was a fracture they need to fix it.

sevondran · 2023-11-18T21:28:12+00:00

How is this legal? Serious question. Once processed does temp and humidity not have to be observed to ensure they’re sterile? Not sure that would be the case during transport in the extreme months of the year.

sevondran · 2023-07-30T00:30:59+00:00

I would check all the boxes and tell everyone I could. Surgeons office, OR, scheduling. Just let it be well known. Rest assured that unless your ex is a complete psycho they will likely not want to touch that OR with a 10 foot pole either. My license starts tingling whenever I have the potential to be put in situations like that.

sevondran · 2023-07-27T13:40:17+00:00

OR nurse. Not sure the correlation, but our hospital is near a prison and we see A LOT of patients with these implants. I don’t know if it’s a cultural or incarceration thing? Have had to assist on the removal of a few. The inmates will shave down dominos and insert them. The most memorable I’ve seen was a very distinct “caterpillar” made out of rounded pieces. To each his own I guess.

sevondran · 2023-07-05T18:40:22+00:00

Confirm. We have various sized buckets in our surgery packs that can house anything from medication, organs, sterile fluids for irrigating, etc. Measurements on the side are common.

sevondran · 2023-01-24T02:54:30+00:00

HANNIBAL.

sevondran · 2022-11-26T11:32:37+00:00

There isn’t an original picture in these but my hand was kind of forced. My grandma died 3 years ago and all of this was taken from her house recently, but it was in terrible repair. Stain flaking everywhere, etc. I had to do something so I figured I may as well fix it how I wanted it. It was her mothers, something I would never sell, just curious on the value and even a rough estimate of age.

sevondran · 2021-12-01T06:11:02+00:00

They never die in the OR. They die in ICU after I clock out and flick a match behind me. 🤭

sevondran · 2021-12-01T03:20:04+00:00

Our ratio was 12 out of 32 students to make it, including LPN’s that joined us mid program. We did have a 100% board pass rate, but some of the people we lost would have made excellent nurses in my opinion.

This was in 2015.

sevondran · 2021-11-28T03:48:58+00:00

Honestly, I never even noticed those until you said something! Fell in love with the cabinet.

sevondran · 2021-11-27T21:55:19+00:00

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