Could you use a bit of workplace humor with your occupational insight on this chilly, between-the-holidays Thursday? In the December issue of Outpatient Surgery Magazine, two experienced RNs reflect on the lighter side of surgery and discuss the glue that holds your facility together: team spirit and charged batteries.
Speaker and author Karyn Buxman, RN, MSN, CSP, CPAE, is no stranger to joking on the job. After all, there's no humor anywhere like a surgical staff's humor. It has the potential to build strong teams, as long as everyone's under the tent. "Insider humor, so inclusive if you're part of the group, can be tremendously exclusionary if you're not," she writes in her "Amazed & Amused" column.
Paula Watkins, RN, CNOR, our favorite traveling nurse from Arkansas, is on the team, but the gods of OR equipment were not smiling on her during a recent ortho case. "Without batteries, you've got no toys," she writes in "Behind Closed Doors", "and without toys, you can't do surgery."
David Bernard
