Celebrating Nurses’ Monumental Impact
There is a myriad of ways to participate in National Nurses Week, which is celebrated May 6-12, from honoring your staff RNs with a gift or event to taking steps to let...
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By: John Kelly, IV
Published: 3/4/2015
Since we moved out of our main hospital to a freestanding surgery center, efficiency is better, start times are more predictable and anesthesia is really bringing their "A" game. Trouble is I have to work like a jackrabbit on steroids. If I don't enter the room for my last case before 3 p.m., I am threatened to take my last case to that dreaded abyss known as the main hospital. Great: teaching is drop-kicked, I have enough caffeine in my body to make Mrs. Olson (the "Folgers Coffee Woman") envious and lunch is reduced to 3 cashews. The pressure to perform is packaged into several segments:
Brotherly love
Like any new endeavor, the surgicenter is indeed a work in progress. I am certain that in time the kinks will be resolved and end times will become much more compatible with predictions. In the meantime, I have trained my identical twin brother (good-looking guy) to run my second room. He is a lawyer, but boy he does a wicked good cuff repair!
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