Hospital VS Ambulatory Surgery Center (in-office)

Hospitals & Ambulatory Centers (in-office) are very different. I want to discuss the differences between the two from my personal experience in clinical.

Clinical. Week 9. Semester 5.

I finished out my week at the Ambulatory Orthopedic Surgery Center! It was such a wonderful experience!! I loved it there.

Clinical. Week 8. Part 1. Semester 5.

Going to the orthopedic ambulatory surgery center today was an awesome change of pace. Straight off the bat, they were so welcoming of me. They didn’t assume I knew things, they asked me what I knew, what I have done, what I was comfortable with, would I like to first scrub, could I open stuff, etc. My tech put me straight into it & let me scrub in & open up the case & set it up even though I didn’t know what I was doing. I just made sure to ask how they did things & what they preferred. It is definitely a different world there…