Thursday, May 24, 2012

First day of "independent" practice

Overall, a good day. Started out kind of rocky, but things smoothed out and went well.
My boyfriend lost his name badge and spent 20 minutes looking for it when we should've been on the road to work. So I did not get to work as early as I would've liked. I was not late, but I had no extra time to look things over.
The night staff set up the rooms so the first case of the day should be ready to go, except for opening supplies and instrumentation and setting up the sterile field. The cases got switched and there is not a mechanism in place to make sure the room is checked for the appropriate equipment and supplies. The OR table was set up wrong and our case cart was missing many items. I had to call for equipment, grab the positioning devices and my scrub called CS for supplies needed. Overall, we were only 9 minutes late into the room.

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