Hi all...

Hello, I am new today to site. Wondering if there are many travel RN's on this site?:nurse-sun:

Welcome to the site, kb! Yeah, there are quite a few travel nurses, but some (!) of them seem to mainly lurk. Hope you don't turn into one of them!

Since you are new here, can you tell us a little about yourself? How long have you been a nurse? Do you have a specialty?

:60: Welcome to the site.

Welcome to the site!

I believe Amanda, one of the Admin's is a former traveler....... :notworthy:

Hi, thanks...I don't think I will be lurking around much due to working too much to be online. Again, thanks for the info!

I know you may be working alot, but drop by when you are able. We'd still love to hear from you. It doesn't have to be daily or anything.

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Hi, To answer your original question about my background... started young in RN school ( my mom was an OB nurse ) and graduated college 1985. Grew up in N.W. Michigan and worked at trauma center there until 2006. I have been an OR nurse since 1990. I have been traveling for almost four years and so far, I still enjoy it. Hope to see you all on the site too and ask anything about surgery if you want and I will try to be of assistance for those type of questions.

kbtravel, do you ever "scrub-in" or mostly Circulate?

Hi, I sometimes have the opportunity to scrub but not often unfortunately because I love to scrub. Most hospitals use surgical techs for scrub role but a few hospitals have all RN's for scrub and circulate roles.

kbtravel wrote:Hi, I sometimes have the opportunity to scrub but not often unfortunately because I love to scrub. Most hospitals use surgical techs for scrub role but a few hospitals have all RN's for scrub and circulate roles.

I was a scrub tech [CST] for three years. Upon completing ADN & passing NCLEX I left the OR to work 64 bed Telemetry Unit at the same Medical Center. Then, went to work in the ICU at another Medical Center. A few years later ended up back at the same OR where I was a scrub tech. They gave me more stable hours while going through RN-BSN program. I worked in the OR as an RN for over six years before going back to the ICU via the Army Nurse Corps.

As an OR RN, I would often scrub in when we were short of techs had enough Circulators. Sometimes I would even be the primary scrub setting up the back table, mayo stand, and passing instruments. For those new scrub techs that did not know from the past it kind of freaked them out since most of the OR RNs rarely scrubbed in, and if they did it was usually only to retract.

I'm happy working in critical care these days but in another life it would have been cool to be an RN First Assist.