What is the hardest part of becoming an Operating Room Nurse and what is the hardest part of being a Perioperative Room Nurse Is there any change in experience when transition from a Registered Nurse with either an associate or bachelor's degrees to a Perioperative Room Nurse?

I am a high school senior and already applied and accepted by the University of Texas Rio Grande Valley. I am planning to go into the nursing pathway, and I am also interested in the nursing specialty of becoming an Operating Room Nurse. The reason why I am so interested is because when I was eleven years old, I contracted appendicitis and had to get it surgically removed before it killed me. This soon caused me to have an interest in the nursing field because of the nurses who took care of me after my procedure to remove my appendix, and I become interested in the operating room ever since when I grew older. In addition, I did my research when I was and currently am part of the volunteer program at Doctor Hospital at Renaissance where I partook since Freshman year of high school and I was stationed in various departments such as Rehab Center, Patient Experience, Medical Telemetry, Rehab Department, Outpatient Center in Gastroenterology, and Employee Education department during my participation in the volunteer program. I have learned a lot of information about the hospital setting by shadowing the hospital staff, but have ultimately decided to go into the Nursing pathway and specifically the operating room and I am wondering if there is something's I should know about before going into this pathway and following my career goal specialty of an Operating Room Nurse?

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