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What was then called a "Surgical Orderly" I had to ensure all bodily waste including urine and feces were removed. Pubic shaved if indicated.
Ensure suture kits were complete and assembled to the EXACT specifications of the surgeons.
Sterilized surgical instruments, read the specific surgeries scheduled and ensuring instruments were packaged perfectly for the surgery scheduled. There was a triple check system for doing this. First myself, 2nd.with a rotating surgical nurse. 3rd,in concert with the surgical supervisor. There was NO margin for error, one missing instrument could put a patients life at risk.
I would keep forgetting to mask and glove up as I entered the surgical unit. My supervisor, the surgical nurses, t he surgeons would SCREAM at me.
Tempers flaired easily, being the bottom of the totem pole, I got the brunt of it.
The day I gave notice the surgical supervisor looked disappointed, "We were hoping to train you to be a circulating surgical nurse" ( I was shocked, turns out they actually liked me)
Ensure suture kits were complete and assembled to the EXACT specifications of the surgeons.
Sterilized surgical instruments, read the specific surgeries scheduled and ensuring instruments were packaged perfectly for the surgery scheduled. There was a triple check system for doing this. First myself, 2nd.with a rotating surgical nurse. 3rd,in concert with the surgical supervisor. There was NO margin for error, one missing instrument could put a patients life at risk.
I would keep forgetting to mask and glove up as I entered the surgical unit. My supervisor, the surgical nurses, t he surgeons would SCREAM at me.
Tempers flaired easily, being the bottom of the totem pole, I got the brunt of it.
The day I gave notice the surgical supervisor looked disappointed, "We were hoping to train you to be a circulating surgical nurse" ( I was shocked, turns out they actually liked me)