This semester has truly been a semester of both learning and reflection. I am extremely grateful to have completed my practicum in the Operating Room at Southern New Hampshire Medical Center. I believe that after 4 years of nursing school I have finally found what I want to be doing within the nursing field: being a circulating nurse in the operating room until I go back to school and get further education to teach future nurses. This semester has been full of ups and downs in relation to my practicum, however I would not change the experiences I have gained this semester for the world. At the beginning of the semester I had very broad and few objectives and goals because I want to get a feel for the operating room before I decided to make
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Sue was my main preceptor and I am so glad I was able to spend time with her in the operating room. She has been a nurse for over 35 years and this year will be entering into her 30th year of OR nursing, which seems incredible to me. She has inspired me with her wealth of knowledge and eagerness to teach me. Kelly offered to be my alternate preceptor and I cannot imagine my semester going as smoothly as it did without her being there and being a part of my learning experience. I hope to take what both have taught me and apply that to my own vision and style of being an operating room nurse. Continuing on this thought, I feel I have changed my practice of nursing because of the practicum. I feel I have learned to be more organized and concise when caring for my patients and have developed different ways to give report when bringing a patient from the pre-op area to the operating room and from the operating room to the post anesthesia care unit. I also have learned to go with the flow, which is something I have changed in my practice. As a person I like to have a very concrete plan of what is happening during the day and try to plan out my shift. However, I know with the operating room things can change in an instance and I feel I have learned to let things happen and go with the flow. I feel that my practice will always have changes to them based off of experiences and new
Sue was my main preceptor and I am so glad I was able to spend time with her in the operating room. She has been a nurse for over 35 years and this year will be entering into her 30th year of OR nursing, which seems incredible to me. She has inspired me with her wealth of knowledge and eagerness to teach me. Kelly offered to be my alternate preceptor and I cannot imagine my semester going as smoothly as it did without her being there and being a part of my learning experience. I hope to take what both have taught me and apply that to my own vision and style of being an operating room nurse. Continuing on this thought, I feel I have changed my practice of nursing because of the practicum. I feel I have learned to be more organized and concise when caring for my patients and have developed different ways to give report when bringing a patient from the pre-op area to the operating room and from the operating room to the post anesthesia care unit. I also have learned to go with the flow, which is something I have changed in my practice. As a person I like to have a very concrete plan of what is happening during the day and try to plan out my shift. However, I know with the operating room things can change in an instance and I feel I have learned to let things happen and go with the flow. I feel that my practice will always have changes to them based off of experiences and new