Saturday, March 13, 2010

O.R nursing -- who knew!

This past week, I did my rotation in the Operating Room. I didn't really know what I was going to see and kinda thought it might be a little boring, even though I like the Discovery Health channel. Blood and guts are thrilling to me..haha. But, it wasn't boring at all.
"Candace" and I went on the same day. When the nurse manager/educator led us to the board (which showcases what operations were taking place and which nurse was in that room), there was a room that had some pediatric patients. Since "Candace" is interested in working in peds, I said she could take that room. I ended up in an ortho room, which was cool.

In the first case, it was a femur fracture that hadn't healed. They were just taking bone marrow from the patient's iliac crest, which contains a great amount of bone marrow. Bone marrow produces new red blood cells, which promotes growth. Growth promotes healing. So, hopefully, all will go well with that patient.

The next patient had a simple knee arthroscopy. Arthroscopy is a minimal invasive procedure in which they use an arthroscope, a type of endoscope that is inserted into the joint through a small incision. He actually had a tear of the meniscus in the knee so they fixed that too. Boring, atleast to me.

I came into the middle of a surgery in which they were going in to fix a fractured humerus and walked into the arm split right open, flesh, muscle and all. They had to put in screws and everything.

But, the highlight of my day was a bilateral knee replacement. OMG! It was bone being sawed off, flesh that looked like chicken bits flying everywhere..it was AWESOME! I mean, when they lifted the leg up..it was like BAM!! Man..it was great. I can show you better than I can tell you so check out this video!

I never considered O.R as an option for nursing..but while I am still so in love with cardiac nursing, the O.R. is definitely an interesting option :)

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