Operating Room

It is recommended that you do not have valuable items/money with you in the OR Department. The time before surgery is best spent helping to prep the patient. This is a good time to practice bladder catheterization, IV's and NG insertions (ask the circulating nurse if you may do these procedures). Scrub suits are NOT to be worn out of the Surgery Department. If you must leave the OR, change back into your street clothes. If you are leaving the Surgery Department for a short period and plan on returning for a case, put a long lab coat over your scrub suit and then CHANGE INTO A NEW SCRUB SUIT before going back to the operating room. The OR staff reserves the right to correct your surgical or sterile technique if necessary as it is their responsibility that correct technique be maintained in the Surgery Department.