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HobgoblinKhanate t1_j1yqfat wrote

Reply to comment by ryanveilleux1 in How do shifts work on really long medical operations? by TerjiD

What’s a scrub?

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Idgie-Threadgoode t1_j20lrez wrote

A scrub is a guy who can’t get no love from me, hangin out the passenger side of his best friend’s ride tryin’ to holla at me.

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Sylvurphlame t1_j1zrhoe wrote

You can have nurses scrub in and assist directly with the surgery as the other redditor said.

Also some hospitals will employ surgical technologist “scrub techs” who help the surgeons manage instrumentation and sterile equipment but these techs will not be nurses themselves. The nurses in these cases will just be circulators who document and grab extra supplies and generally keep the room running smoothly.

At my hospital we have several nurses who were originally surg techs and have kept up their credentials. They’ll sub in when needed but we typically have separate scrub techs and circulator nurses.

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