life as a staff nurse! well ive started my job now in theatres and am about to go into my third week. ive had very mixed feelings really but probably not unlike every other person in my group! i hated it the first week but once id gotten settled in the second week was much better.
my pin number came through yesterday so im really pleased about that and am looking forward to being paid at the end of the month
so il update this diary as i go along in my new career as a qualified staff nurse!
--- RGN at last : ) now all the stress was worth it!!!!
Re: life as a staff nurse! well my third week as a staff nurse is over and im enjoying it more and more been scrubbing up this week and the operations were: Vericose veins, anal wart removal and inguinal hernia repair. im doing more each week and that is a confidence boost but i still have a long way to go before i master the art of being a confident scrub nurse
--- RGN at last : ) now all the stress was worth it!!!!
Re: life as a staff nurse! lol i know it wasnt the most pleasent of things but hey somebodies got to do it lol had a stressful day on thursday, a snappy surgeon returned from his holiday and just keep snapping on at me which i really dont need when im trying 110% to pre empt what they are doing and what instruments they will need next etc.!! so im just going to keep my head down and get on with it and also try to toughen myself up.
--- RGN at last : ) now all the stress was worth it!!!!
Re: life as a staff nurse! been in my job for 5 full weeks now. iam enjoying it but find it stressfull. i always feel like every day is a battle for me to get to the next level, which i have to say i didnt think id be doing as much as iam doing 5 weeks ago so i suppose that shows how far ive come in my scrubbing tecnique. nobody ever said it was gonna be easy so il just keep going with the flow of things
--- RGN at last : ) now all the stress was worth it!!!!
Re: life as a staff nurse! been working in theatres for 6 weeks now, starting to feel much more comfortable and im pleased with the amount of operations i now feel comfortable doing
this is some of the operations i can scrub for on my own,
hernia (Inguinal, umbilical and incisional)
anal warts stoma's,
varicose veins,
laparoscopic choleycystectomy,
EUA and drainage of sinus.
actually doesnt seem that much when its written in a list but it feels like loads when your doing two or three procedures in a shift.
think il be moving over to bigger operations next week so im kacking it a bit but im sure il be fine
--- RGN at last : ) now all the stress was worth it!!!!
Re: life as a staff nurse! sounds like you've made the transition really well suzie from student to staff nurse. well done it must be hard to be wearing a student uniform one day and a staff nurse one the next all of a sudden! you're doing really well hope i am as good as you when i walk into my first job. xxx
life as a staff nurse!
and inguinal hernia repair. im doing more each week and that is a confidence boost but i still have a long way to go before i master the art of being a confident scrub nurse 
had a stressful day on thursday, a snappy surgeon returned from his holiday and just keep snapping on at me which i really dont need when im trying 110% to pre empt what they are doing and what instruments they will need next etc.!! so im just going to keep my head down and get on with it and also try to toughen myself up. 
