Don't Choke On It

Just a little rant.

So in my previous post, I mentioned how I have been spending a lot of time in OR 4.  THIS IS NOT WHAT I SIGNED UP FOR.  One big reason why I work in this freaking huge hospital is for the variety.  I like being able to do lots of different surgeries and working with different doctors in different specialties.  I like to be versatile and learn new things.  But, no.  I am in OR 4 almost every day.  I have to work full-time, and I really don't want to spend 30+ hours per week in the robot room! 

The other thing is, that no one wants to train on it.  So I'm stuck in there almost every day because the other scrubs just don't want to do it.  Maybe they don't have the opportunity, but I'm pretty sure it's because they refuse.  What if I refuse to go in there?  What then?  I'd get some disciplinary action, I'm sure.  But I'm seriously going nuts in there.

It wasn't too bad from 3pm-6pm (Robby was my nurse again), but after I came back from dinner, Steve was my nurse.  Things were complicated, and the surgeon had to keep scrubbing in and breaking scrub to go back to the console and scrubbing back in, then having to do a cysto which I had to help with, making me 'dirty,' so I was trying to keep my clean and dirty areas separate, and Steve totally contaminated the table I needed to do my final sutures and dressings and stuff.  No, he couldn't contaminate the stuff I didn't need; he had to screw up the one table I would use for sure.  Then I had to ask him several times for different things, then we had to get an x-ray, then Pete (the Nurse Practitioner) had to leave, so I was the left to put on the patient's dressings.  As I was trying to, the orderlies come in and start trying to take off the drapes and cover up the patient, and then the patient started waking up with her drapes still on, and then I ended up accidently cutting the TLS drain so that only 1 cm of drain was actually outside of the body.  By that time, the patient was mostly awake and extubated, so we couldn't very well put her back under to replace the drain.  Yes, a few choice words flew at that time.

When we were done, several nurses and techs came in to help us clean up.  That's nice, but that also says that a) they didn't have assignments, and b) they didn't want to train.  No one does, so that leaves those of us who do know how to do it as the chumps.  In OR 4 constantly.  Totally screwed. 

I'm so over it.