Calling all OR nurses
Calling all OR nurses out there. What are the pros and cons of your job and do you like it? What are the hours like? How did you feel when you started out and how’s it going? What’s the work life balance like?
A little background on me. I’m currently a new grad nurse. I graduated in December and started working nights on a med surg unit (not my ideal speciality that I wanted to go into but I basically settled and wanted to get some experience) I did 3 months of nights and I really couldn’t do it. I was like a zombie and literally slept my life away those 3 months. I didn’t really spend time with my family that’s how disconnected and depressed I was. I decided to switch to day shift. Overall I feel so much better mentally but I still dread going to work and days is an absolute shit show of how busy it is. Not to mention juggling tasks while having six patients, which I feel is so unsafe. I’m still looking for other jobs in which I’m interested in because I’m not fully happy at my job and if an opportunity comes my way Im open to it. One of the specialities I was interested in while I was in nursing school was OR, but I wasn’t really exposed to it much since I only had a shadow day for school. I recently went to a nearby hospital that was offering an OR event basically giving more information of how the operating room works because not a lot of nursing schools cover that part of nursing. I really enjoyed it. I asked to shadow a couple more times just to see if I would actually like being an OR nurse. So OR nurses could you please give me some more info of how your type of nursing is like?