rooms. Why can't the universal remote?
• I enjoy my patients' company more once they're anesthetized.
• A surgeon might be right or wrong, but is never in doubt.
• Silk tape. It's the duct tape of the OR. There's no problem it can't
fix. I've even thought about using it on my mouth in certain situa-
tions.
• When the accreditation surveyors are coming, the place goes the
usual crazy. An organization you paid money to is visiting to fine you
for the way you've always been doing things. It's like paying someone
to beat you up.
• Nothing says professional like the threadbare, ill-fitting, color-
mismatched outfits we scrounge around for every morning.
• Listening to someone lecture on the importance of hand hygiene,
then watching them lick their fingertip to distribute printed materials,
has impressed upon me the importance of carrying hand sanitizer.
• Why do the plaques posted by the OR doors include the numbers in
Braille?
• A lot of us were subjected to intimidation, lies, withheld informa-
tion and other forms of occupational hazing when we were starting
out. I'd like to say that was the past, but the practice continues. Under
the bus is no place to learn. We're nurses, not mechanics.
• Young nurse, be sure to listen more and talk less. And this is very
important: Don't ever sit down during a case. You're not the circulator
yet.
• "Don't trip on that cord." "I won't, I saw it from the floor where I
landed." The equipment we use to treat patients sure does a number
on us providers.
• You might be an OR nurse if you can look at a naked body and
think, "Parts is parts."
• To separate your personal life from work, you first have to have
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