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OSE_1310_part3_Layout 1 10/7/13 10:33 AM Page 118 BEHIND CLOSED DOORS others, such as "prep," "stat" or "code," but since it wasn't directed at her, much less uttered by the surgeon, the discipline form doesn't seem warranted. Perhaps asking to choose different music (with a beat the doc can still dance to) would have been a better solution. My real concern here is, how did the circulator have the time or attention to count the number of four-letter words? When I'm circulating, I'm so busy I can't follow anything that isn't a surgeon's request or a patient's monitor. If it's not patient-care related, iTune it all out. D ear Paula, One day a stranger with a clipboard shows up in the OR where I'm circulating. She's there to audit my performance. I asked the young lady how long she'd worked surgery. Never, she said. She'd been an oncology nurse for a year and before that was getting her master's. How can a new graduate with no OR experience audit a field she knows nothing about? It's like when the nurses who write the standards we have to follow haven't worked in an OR since the '90s. It makes me wonder, who's in charge here? — Watching the Watchers D ear Watching, Back when I was an OR educator, another nurse snapped that those who can't handle surgical nursing anymore get a sit-down job or teach. At the time I was insulted, but now I see his point. 1 1 8 O U T PAT I E N T S U R G E R Y M A G A Z I N E O N L I N E | O C T O B E R 2013

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