Maybe it's too early

to tell but I went back to work and I think I am going to hate my new job.  I got a locker!  No its actually not that exciting.  I couldn't open the damn thing for 10 minutes and had to ask another nurse for help.  Felt like I was back in high school, although in HS I wouldn't have been trying to get my breast pump to fit in the smallest locker ever!  I got the corner locker and it is a wee bit tight.  I changed into my not so flattering XS unisex scrubs.  The pants are so long I have to hike them up to my bra or I will slip and fall on the backs of them.  Off I go to the freezing cold OR.  After getting lost like 4 times.  I should mention I have no sense of direction.  Steve laughs because every time we leave a movie theatre I turn the wrong way.  I couldn't find my way out of a cardboard box.  It's especially hard working the OR because there are no windows to orient you as to where the hell you could be.  My preceptors are very nice (thank God) and the smells and sights of the OR didn't bother me at all.  Maybe it was a good thing I stopped and had that egg mcmuffin and coke on the way into work.  My preceptor told me her last 3 students passed out.  I never felt the slightest bit sick and I saw some major stuff that first day.  This job is not conducive at all to breastfeeding so that sucks.  I was engorged the entire day and ended up pumping on the locker room floor in a shower stall.  So what does an OR nurse do?  I had no clue.  The only time I was in an OR was when I was a patient and I was asleep. 

Basically, you are a gopher.  You have to prepare the room and count all the instruments with the scrub tech, meet the pt. and make sure they understand their surgery and that the consents are signed. Once the case starts you have to go and get the Docs anything they need.  Which literally could be 1 of 3,759 items.  I'm exaggerating but only by a little.  There are tons and tons of things they could need and unless you know exactly where it is, Good Luck.  And even if you do know where it is and you go and get it in 5.7 seconds it' still took you too long because these surgeons have no freakin' patience!  You are answering the phone, calling the blood bank, entering orders and getting orders barked at ya' every 2 minutes.  You are also entering in the computer everything used and writing it own on your papers with the counts. The counts are super duper important!  I'm sure we have all heard horror stories of things getting left behind.  So to get an accurate count you need to get a little dirty.  Dirty meaning putting on an arm glove and going through the bloody surgical garbage and counting pads and sponges.  All in all it's a pretty good time (I'm kidding) But I should mention the pros seeing that are only 2.  The XS scrubs I take and there's no need to do your hair because you have a cap on.  Did I mention how cold it is?  Nose sniffling cold.  I need a new job!  

All kidding aside, I am thankful for OR nurses.  They are very important especially when it is your loved one on the table.  I am just not cut out for it.  I already miss the patients and you need to be very assertive to be an OR nurse and I am not.  I hate confrontation.  And I really don't want to work with surgeons  Sorry to my surgeon friends but you must know how you or some of your friends behave themselves.  I have toddlers at home for crying out loud!  I don't need to have that crap at work.