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Getting a phone call from my manager while at home is never fun, curious as to how my evening will unfold I answer, they were letting me know I was going to be doing an organ harvesting this evening and…

Finishing up my evening in the operating room usually consists of walking around and pickup up everyone’s trash they left behind from the day and putting it up properly. Inside my mind making voodoo dolls for every staff member who…

Personal care assistants in the operating room are workers who assist the room in getting items to the room that are necessary for the next case, as well as running cultures and helping clean up the rooms. Having a motivated…

Coming into each facility as a traveler, the first week feels like walking into the hunger games. You are lined up against all the group of people you start with and scaled on your strengths and weaknesses. You are then…

Finishing a long day in the OR, winding down at the desk with co-workers, trading stories from the day, feeling so glad it is almost over. When the dreaded words walk through the door “I have a add on”. It’s…

This particular travel shift I am working mid-shift 10-10:30, which means I am the break and lunch bitch. Some days this can be a slight break, others a nightmare. Arriving to see three morning breaks, and I began my day.…

This particular day I arrive to the OR board pondering my assignment for the day. Scan the board looking for my magnet, seeing where my destiny is. Found it, Plastic Surgeon Dr L’s room, now looking for the other pieces…

Before my traveling days I enjoy the daily grind in preop and OR at my local surgery center. Come in bright and early, get out early if the schedules light. Administration is always recruiting new surgeons to get more volume,…

It’s almost a universal look and agreement in the Travel OR nursing world, nobody likes to work with GYN. The dread that I feel when I see that I am assigned to a GYN room for the day. I wonder…

Arriving to work just in the nick of time, feeling so proud of beating the punch clock only to arrive the The Board to not see my name anywhere. Like damn, am I not even suppose to work today? Well…