Kaiser Volunteering / Nurse Shadowing: The First Night on call (#4)

After Christina and I finished eating and talking in the staff lounge room we headed back to the PACU (recovery room). While we were in the recovery room, we waited for patients to come out of surgery because after the patients surgery is finished they are sent to the recovery room to be cared for by nurses. While the nurses were preparing for the patient to come, Christina and I got to watch the surgery being done on the patient that shortly would be sent to PACU. We watched it on a monitor. Every room in the hospital that performs surgery has a camera installed to show the nurses what kind of surgery is being done to the patients and when the patient will be sent to the PACU. This lets the nurses know that a patient is coming in and means that they need to prepare for that patient. It was something very new for me to see so i thought it was very interesting how fast the patients are sent to the recovery room right after surgery. Christina and i got the chance to watch a hip replacement on the monitor and i was shocked. It did not gross me out. I thought it was very interesting how calm the surgeons were and how they finished the job so efficiently. Next thing you know the lady that was being worked on was in the recovery room right after her surgery and was cared for by our mentors.