Students: This woman is speaking the truth! She is a lifesaver while you’re in clinicals! She is also a lifesaver when you’re done with clinicals! She may not be your instructor physically… but she is here virtually. THE best in the business! Thanks Kat!!
Im going to be starting classes soon. And I only have one concern that I haven't seen anyone really cover.. I sometimes get eczema on my hands for numerous reasons.. usually it's my diet and can keep it under control.. any tips to protect my hands from scrubbing in all day? Thanks and I love your videos BTW they've really inspired me to continue chasing my goals!
I used to deal with fairly severe eczema myself. It took radically changing my diet to get it under control. Specifically watching processed sugar intake and processed foods in general, this includes alcohol, absolutely no alcohol! I now stick with a higher protein, fatty fish specifically, whole food diet and things are going much better. You may also want to get tested for allergies. Hope this helps, best of luck.
Do you have scrub nurses at your job? I can’t tell if I should just be a scrub nurse or scrub tech? I want more money and be on the line passing and touching instruments and be able to hold some tissues and retractors. I do not want to be a nurse circulator fyi. At my hospital we have Scrub techs and the nurse circulators in charge of them. I really don’t know?
They are the same thing. Yes nurses can be a scrub. The term scrub nurses extended back to wartime when women nurses could not work on the ships so they then were used in the OR as Operating Room Technicians (ORT). This then became Certified ORT (CORT). Today we are known as CST, TS-C (depends on the test you took, NBSTSA or NCCT),ST. You can become a Registered Nurse RN-CST. I hope that this helps
Students: This woman is speaking the truth! She is a lifesaver while you’re in clinicals! She is also a lifesaver when you’re done with clinicals! She may not be your instructor physically… but she is here virtually. THE best in the business! Thanks Kat!!
Lmaoooo LILLY! 😂 you're one of my first few students I mentored! And now look at u! All certified! ❤
My journey into the Surg Techs life begins tomorrow
Wishing you the best. I start my ST classes on the 21st.
Good luck! My school starts in 5 weeks and I can't wait!
Your videos are really helping me with the decision to proceed in this field, thank you ❤
I had an interview at a hospital for an OR position as a surgery service assistant
Couldn’t have said it better😊
can you do a video dedicated to exam prep, what focus on, study tips, etc?!?!?!? THX!
@Surgicaltechgeek Do you mind sharing what school did you go to for Surgical Technology?
Im going to be starting classes soon. And I only have one concern that I haven't seen anyone really cover.. I sometimes get eczema on my hands for numerous reasons.. usually it's my diet and can keep it under control.. any tips to protect my hands from scrubbing in all day? Thanks and I love your videos BTW they've really inspired me to continue chasing my goals!
I used to deal with fairly severe eczema myself. It took radically changing my diet to get it under control. Specifically watching processed sugar intake and processed foods in general, this includes alcohol, absolutely no alcohol! I now stick with a higher protein, fatty fish specifically, whole food diet and things are going much better. You may also want to get tested for allergies. Hope this helps, best of luck.
Do you have scrub nurses? I’m an OR nurse in the PH and we don’t have surg techs here so i’m a little confused
Do you have scrub nurses at your job? I can’t tell if I should just be a scrub nurse or scrub tech? I want more money and be on the line passing and touching instruments and be able to hold some tissues and retractors.
I do not want to be a nurse circulator fyi.
At my hospital we have Scrub techs and the nurse circulators in charge of them.
I really don’t know?
They are the same thing. Yes nurses can be a scrub. The term scrub nurses extended back to wartime when women nurses could not work on the ships so they then were used in the OR as Operating Room Technicians (ORT). This then became Certified ORT (CORT). Today we are known as CST, TS-C (depends on the test you took, NBSTSA or NCCT),ST. You can become a Registered Nurse RN-CST. I hope that this helps
Are you still going to nursing school?