Surgery Department at OSF St. Joseph Medical Center<\/a>.<\/p>\nSurgery nurse, Faith Frankeberger,\u00a0RN, BSN,\u00a0CNOR, took time to sit down and provide some insight into the department.<\/p>\n
The Team<\/h3>\n
The Surgery Department includes nurses, technicians, anesthesiologists, and surgeons from various specialties like Orthopedics, Neurology, Urology, and more! The members of the department work closely as a team whether performing everyday tasks or during emergent situations – always making patients and their safety a top priority. With so many staff members involved in each surgical case, communication amongst all staff is vital to the patient\u2019s safe care, and the team at OSF St. Joseph Medical Center does this extremely well!<\/p>\n
\u201cThe OR does not operate like they portray on television medical dramas. It is a very controlled environment with a lot of highly trained staff who are excellent at what they do,\u201d stated Faith.<\/p>\n
So what does a day in the life of a Surgery nurse entail? Let us enlighten you.<\/p>\n
A Day in the Life<\/h3>\n
Faith arrives in the Operating Room (OR) at 6 a.m. to set up their morning surgery cases. She attends a quick briefing at 6:30 a.m. to review the caseload for the day, and then returns to the OR. She then begins to open supplies and retrieve medication for the morning surgeries, ensuring the surgeon and technicians will have everything they need to begin in a timely matter.<\/p>\n
After speaking with the patient and asking appropriate safety questions, the surgical nurse will take the patient back to the OR. Once in the room the circulating nurse will assist the anesthetist in positioning the patient, applying monitors, and during the intubation process. After the patient is asleep the nurse will continue with additional positioning related to the specific procedure and\u00a0prepping the surgical area to decrease the risk of infection.<\/p>\n
While the procedure is in progress, the nurse does the majority of the charting and assists with specimens, labs, ordering and checking any necessary blood products, and retrieving additional supplies. The overall sterility and safety of the patient during the procedure is monitored for the entirety of the case.<\/p>\n
Once the case is finished, the nurses will relay the report to the Recovery Room nurse, complete the patient\u2019s chart, and then head back to the OR to clean and get ready for the next surgery. Faith\u2019s schedule varies anywhere from one very long case to three or four shorter cases in an eight-hour period.<\/p>\n
\u201cIt all gets done at a very fast pace, but it gets done with the help of everyone,\u201d said Faith.<\/p>\n
Behind Closed Doors<\/h3>\n
Surgery\u00a0seems to be a place of\u00a0uncertainty,\u00a0because it is closed off from the rest of the hospital in its own area with “Restricted” signs and locked doors. But behind those closed doors is a team of nurses, scrub technicians, ancillary staff, surgeons, and\u00a0anesthesia personnel\u00a0who have the warmest of hearts and who\u00a0do\u00a0their best every day to make\u00a0each patient feel safe, loved, and cared for.<\/p>\n
\u201cMost of our patients\u00a0may not\u00a0remember those who cared for them\u00a0during surgery and that’s ok,\u201d says Faith. \u201cWe want our patients to take with them the memory\u00a0of feeling\u00a0comfortable and safe.\u201d<\/p>\n
Photo: From top left is James Haggins, Patient transporter\/Surgical aid; Marni Woolridge, RN; Ivy Wiley, Surgical tech; Crystal Cargill, RN, Recovery; and Faith Frankeberger,\u00a0RN, BSN,\u00a0CNOR.<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Few people can say they\u2019ve seen firsthand what goes on in a surgery room. If you\u2019ve had a surgery performed, you were probably asleep and missed all the action. There\u2019s a good chance the image you have in your head is something similar to the chaos and drama portrayed in Grey\u2019s Anatomy. We\u2019re here to […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":14,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_lmt_disableupdate":"","_lmt_disable":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[176],"tags":[153],"coauthors":[704],"class_list":["post-736","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-careers","tag-behind-the-scenes"],"yoast_head":"\n
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Few people can say they\u2019ve seen firsthand what goes on in a surgery room.<\/p>\n