Principles of Surgery

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Content Page (i) Introduction Page 3 (ii) Reflection 3, 4 (iii) Description 4 (iv) Feelings 7 (v) Evaluation 8 (a) Bad Points (b) Good Points (vi) Analysis 8 (vii) Conclusion 8 (viii) Reference List 9 Introduction As part of this assignment I will be looking at how effective I was able to work as Scrub ODP/Circulator within a surgical team in a Peri-operative environment. As a scrub pr... ... middle of paper ... ...ly nervous as I had to ensure that I didn't make any more mistakes. I was left alone with the scrub nurse as the HCA went to get instruments, the irrigation fluid was about to finish and I have already kept another warm saline to be used,I plugged the drain into the saline bag to be used but the fluid did not came out due to it's twisted port. Mr. J now was shouting 'Saline please', 'Saline please' I am getting really cross. He know seems really irritated with my presence. I applied pressure to the bag using hands till there was new bag used. He asked the matron to be seen and told her about having 'staffs & students' who are not capable of running a theatre on it's standards. The complaining followed during all the operating lists. But I ensured during the lists, the swab count was correct, instruments and needles were correct. Counts are undertaken to

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