I Hate...

I hate the stupid surgeons! I hate hate hate hate hate!!! It in turn, make me hate my job. Please hurry, Jeff. I don't know how much longer I can continue this way.

Let me blog this down so I'll remember this forever & it'll serve as a reminder not to step into this line again! I was just too tired to do so yesterday.

We had 10 cases in the afternoon. The turnover rate is fast, about 15 mins for the simpler case & 30 mins for the 2 procedures in 1. Usually sister will assign 3 nurses so we can be in time to scrub & prepare our trolley. But we're working 8 to 5 pm. If there're 3 nurses, 1 can go home while the other 2 stay to finish the list. 2 can go home if the on call nurse can come over but there were a few other theatres still running by 5 pm & the on call nurse couldn't come over. So me & a senior stayed back. Imagine having 3 nurses, so I'll take case no. 1, 4, 7 & 10. If there're 2 only, I'll take 1, 3, 5, 7 & 9 so it means a lot a lot of rushing about.

I just finished a 15 mins case, my partner scrubbed for the next 15 mins case & I have to scrub for the 30 mins case next. So I had 15 mins to do all the following. I pushed my used trolley & practically ran to the decontamination area, dumped my instruments there, ran back to theatre with my trolley, help to circulate for my partner, then ran into the preparation room to open my sterile things & ran to the induction room to check the patient is the correct 1 & prepare the paper work. The case was just finishing inside the theatre & I ran to scrub. Becoz it was the 30 mins case, I had a huge mountain of instruments to prepare & I'll get sacarstic remarks or even worse, yelled at if I'm not outside, cleaning the operation area & had the patient drapped by the time the surgeon is scrubbed up. I did manage to prepare everything in time which I didn't know how I did it.

Then, after that, it was the same thing again. I cleared my trolley, rushed back to theatre to circulate for my partner. YOU (the assistant who wasn't scrubbed up) sit there like a block of wood while we were so damn busy. YOU, wanted me put drops for the next patient. Then, the least YOU can do is call out & ask me to do it. YOU don't even have to say please. What pissed me off was, YOU, decided it was ok for YOU to TAP ME ON THE SHOULDER SEVERAL TIMES WITH A PEN while I was busy doing my things & said, "Put drops for the patient."

I tell you, IT IS NOT OK!!! IT WAS SO DAMN RUDE!!! It wasn't becoz I was busy. I could still squeeze in that few seconds to put the drops. BUT IT IS NOT OK TO TAP MY SHOULDER SEVERAL TIMES WITH YOUR STUPID PEN!!!

Surprised that this is happening? I assure you I'm telling no lies. This is exactly what happened to me. What's more surprising? Spoiled rotten surgeons screaming at you becoz you were 1 second too slow in passing the instrument coz it got stuck in the casing? Or you got screamed at becoz the instrument they insist on using is being used by another surgeon which in the 1st place belongs to that other surgeon?

So what if you've got higher qualifications? So what if your position is much higher than mine? You may be learned but what do your actions tell about you? If anybody wants to join nursing, my advise is, DON'T. Unless you're sure this is what you want to put up with. Believe me, what I said here is just the tip of the iceberg.