Who’s In Charge?
scrub nurse
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a nurse who handles sterile equipment while assisting a surgeon during a surgical operation.
I am convinced that the scrub nurse is the most powerful person in an operating theater. They know where everyone and everything is. They have seen more surgeons operate than any of us can imagine.
They help the surgeon, but do not perform the surgery.
They inform the care and procedure, but do not perform the surgery.
They offer assistance, but do not perform the surgery.
The operating theater simply couldn’t function without them.
When The Boy & The Brother were younger I was the surgeon in the operating theater that is their lives. I was in charge. I did all the things. Not only did I do all of the things, I did them faster and better than anyone else could do, than anyone else could ever do. I know my children better than anyone else after all.
Then I met two people who know my children way better than I know them. I tried to keep being the surgeon. It ended badly. There are new surgeons now, albeit part time.
In matters of physical care, The Boy has become the surgeon. So I have became the scrub nurse.
I help The Boy, but I do not do the tasks.
I inform the process and procedure, but I do not do the tasks.
I offer assistance, but I do not do the tasks.
It takes work to remember that I am no longer the surgeon, and to remember that my goal as scrub nurse is to help to produce an excellent surgeon, one who knows that he is part of a team in need of help, information and assistance.
By The Parent
- 31, Aug, 2018
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