I don't feel like a grown up
i've just done 3 straight shifts so I'm feeling a little frazzled.
and i think it showed today when i was working on the plastic lists.
I've never liked plastics very much, and I know that may sound odd to some of the readers here giving the fact that I was raised on Plastic Surgery back in the winter of 2006.
I don't like plastics because the expected turnaround on the cases is targeted without care (or in some cases to the direct detriment) of the the staff who crew the theatres.
A good friend of mine, Ewa, left plastics after several years purely for this reason in the way that you as scrub staff and charge nurses were ALWAYS having to scrounge, beg and steal equipment to perform the simplest of cases.
That is a regular occurrence in plastics.
In main theatres, with the likes of neuro, ortho and general surgeries the equipment is always there. But I think the powers-that-be see Plastics as the poor relation to the other specialties and are not as forthcoming with supplies as they could be.
Case in point to this theory came today when we ran out of surgical gowns and had to scrounge them from other theatres. We could not run our list because we did not have gowns.
That's like saying a cab company cannot open for the day because it has no gas in its car's tanks.
This is a BASIC requirement for surgery globally.
In the end the list, overbooked as usual, overran and the Day Unit went onto answer phone as a result and we as scrub staff had a devil of a time trying to return our last patient to the Unit.
I did get exasperated down the phone at one nurse, and I'm scared that I come across as emotionally stunted or unable to take criticism.
I know that I talk too fast and that people can't understand me half the time. It's SOOOOOOOOO frustrating to repeat myself because of my dysfluency I'm never sure if the repeated words will 'make it out alive' (so to speak) which is why I get frustrated when my fluency is misunderstood or ignored.
And combine my dysfluency with physical tiredness and I can get a short fuse.
I just hope people in work don't think less of me.
I'm trying you know?
I try really hard every day. I'd just like to have a day where everything is there and works, and the pressures put upon the theatre crews isn't excessive.
I don't know, I think I should just hope I'm not assigned to plastic theatres too often in the future.
and i think it showed today when i was working on the plastic lists.
I've never liked plastics very much, and I know that may sound odd to some of the readers here giving the fact that I was raised on Plastic Surgery back in the winter of 2006.
I don't like plastics because the expected turnaround on the cases is targeted without care (or in some cases to the direct detriment) of the the staff who crew the theatres.
A good friend of mine, Ewa, left plastics after several years purely for this reason in the way that you as scrub staff and charge nurses were ALWAYS having to scrounge, beg and steal equipment to perform the simplest of cases.
That is a regular occurrence in plastics.
In main theatres, with the likes of neuro, ortho and general surgeries the equipment is always there. But I think the powers-that-be see Plastics as the poor relation to the other specialties and are not as forthcoming with supplies as they could be.
Case in point to this theory came today when we ran out of surgical gowns and had to scrounge them from other theatres. We could not run our list because we did not have gowns.
That's like saying a cab company cannot open for the day because it has no gas in its car's tanks.
This is a BASIC requirement for surgery globally.
In the end the list, overbooked as usual, overran and the Day Unit went onto answer phone as a result and we as scrub staff had a devil of a time trying to return our last patient to the Unit.
I did get exasperated down the phone at one nurse, and I'm scared that I come across as emotionally stunted or unable to take criticism.
I know that I talk too fast and that people can't understand me half the time. It's SOOOOOOOOO frustrating to repeat myself because of my dysfluency I'm never sure if the repeated words will 'make it out alive' (so to speak) which is why I get frustrated when my fluency is misunderstood or ignored.
And combine my dysfluency with physical tiredness and I can get a short fuse.
I just hope people in work don't think less of me.
I'm trying you know?
I try really hard every day. I'd just like to have a day where everything is there and works, and the pressures put upon the theatre crews isn't excessive.
I don't know, I think I should just hope I'm not assigned to plastic theatres too often in the future.