Been a nurse over 10 years. Best advice I can give is to get up and move the moment you are cleared to! Don't take the stronger pain meds if you don't need them. They can and do cause side effects like constipation and worst.
Be kind to all the staff and don't be a creep and hit on the female nurses or CNA's. It's a hard enough job without harrassment.
Also pay attention to what everyone tells you and keep notes...it's easy to be distracted and get home and not have a clue your discharge instructions even though you were told. Good luck!
As an outdoor craplete opioids stunted my career. I never took them until I did for a severe injury and they damaged me and my career. Now I don't take them at all. I wasn't competitive for years after "the incident". Rectal ruin can happen quickly with only a few doses. Like I say, never liked them, never took them, took them in desperation and my whole O ring got blown out. There it hung, dilapidated like a wizards sleeve. The damage to my outdoor competitive crapping career was possibly over. But with enough years and physical therapy I'm proud to say I'm at the top of my game and the head of the circuit. There's a chapter in my book about it entitled The Devils Concrete.