Norfolk General Hospital School of Nursing - PRN Yearbook (Norfolk, VA)

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ff' Isn't this ridiculous? I'll contaminate myself as soon as I set-up anyway. That doctor neveri He needs 51! S satisfied with 50 hemastats. perabkzy fy? 00122 The swinging doors marked Surgery, No Admit- tance we met with hesitation, yet with marked eager- ness. Stepping into the operating room greens with cap, mask and conductive shoes, we immediately found our places as operating room nurses. Within two days after beginning this specialty,we were no longer observers. With rapidity we were swept into the active, precise functioning as scrub nurses and circulating nurses for the surgeons. No longer did we have to see sketches of the bodies' interior. There we saw it in action, felt its pathology, and better understood its mystery. Efficiency, speed, and accuracy developed steadily. Minor set ups to major ones soon afforded no difference in these three important characteristics of a well- functioning O.R. nurse. Recovery room experience was included in the O.R. education. There we learned skilled and precise im- mediate post-operative care, with knowledge and ex- perience in handling of complications arising. As we left this specialty, we took with us a sounder knowledge of anatomy and physiology, a prime under- standing of surgical procedures, concerning operative andpost-operative complications. Also, with these, we took with us stronger stomachs, burning ears Cand two hemastats eachl. 33 Irrigate q5minutes until clear.

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