The Labor and Delivery (L&D) department at the University of Chicago Medical Center is staffed 24/7 with a mix of RNs and surgical technicians. There are a limited number of surgical technicians available to scrub for all emergency cesarean sections (C-sections). The patient population sometimes includes high-risk patients, necessitating the availability of highly-skilled nursing staff particularly trained to perform emergency C-sections. Therefore, a decision was made to train all RNs in the role of the scrub nurse. Many of these nurses had some prior training for the role of the circulating nurse during a C-section procedure.
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