For those of you who aren't theatre savy, to scrub in is a process in which you prepare yourself for an operation. You might have seen parts of it portrayed in movies or medical shows where you see the surgeon scrubbing the heck out of his hands.
So it is easy for you to follow, I'll show you what it means to scrub in in a graphically and highly stylised manner.
Yeah - that's how you do it... sort of.
When you are scrubbed in, you are sterile from the neck down - and you have to stay that way.
You cannot touch anything that is not sterile. So if you have an itch - you have to deal with it.
Also, when you're scrubbed in, everything seems to jump out at you - trying to break your sterility.
So you pretty much have to be on your guard all the time and never lose focus.
Before I was able to scrub in, my job was separating the paper from the plastic which held the instruments. The hospital likes to recycle everything. I'm pretty good at it now.
Now I am in my final week and I've gotten to do HEAPS of stuff. It's so great. I feel really good about becoming a theatre nurse now - eeyay!
I would talk about some of the procedures I've seen but they're pretty gory - like when I saw all these cysts and then the surgeon accidentally popped one and it explo- ... sorry.
My apologies also for the long gap in between posts. I thought once study was over I could find more time to blog - but working 10 hours a day kinda takes it out of you (this post also took a lot longer than I anticipated). All I wanna do is sleep and eat mountains of food and read volume upon volume of Immortal Rain. Ohhhhhhhh so good.
I'll finish this post with a picture of what I looked like after spotting a real hottie who was assisting the surgeon during a procedure.
I never saw him again after that *sniff* Oh well, I move on quickly ;D
Oh and here's a picture of me as Nurse Caz - the super hero. She's armed with the Mood-Launcher. Awesome.
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