If you’ve ever wondered what it’s like being a surgical nurse, Pascha brings us on a tour of a typical day.
As a registered nurse who works in the operating room as a clinical coordinator, Pascha has been in the operating room for six years now. And she has worked at Adventist HealthCare Shady Grove Medical Center for over 20 years.
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Video Transcription
Why did you decide to become a nurse?
I decided to become a nurse because I really wanted a tangible way to help people and to show that I cared, and be able to relieve their suffering, and just to really be around people and be able to help them.
What’s it like working in the OR (operating room)?
Yeah well I mean they used to call it an operating theatre, I mean I think they still do in Europe and I mean it is. It‘s like a performance, everybody has their role that they play and everyone knows it, its like a dance. Even from when you see someone scrubbing, put their gown on, their gloves on, do their little spin, and each surgery has sort of its own rhythm and way of moving through, and it you know once you learn those rhythms, it’s the same kind of dance every single time. That’s how it should be.
What’s it like working as a nurse?
I’m just really happy to serve people and I feel like privileged that you know that you come here and have your surgery here and let us take care of you, and trust us to take care of you.
And also our surgeons here are incredible so I would say like if you need to have emergency surgery, hands down, they’re so good our hospital surgeons so I do feel like I’m part of a team that is excellent, like really excellent, at what we do here in the community.
If you come here you’re gonna be taken care of, we’re gonna take care of your spiritual health and your mental health and your physical health, your full person.