Chilly_hands

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1. Consents from patients who cannot sign for self

   Chilly_hands replied to Chilly_hands's topic in Operating Room

   We must be spoiled as our docs, surgeons and anes. All get their own consents. :)

2. Consents from patients who cannot sign for self

   Chilly_hands replied to Chilly_hands's topic in Operating Room

   So, anesthesia comes to PAT dept? We are outpatient.

3. Consents from patients who cannot sign for self

   Chilly_hands replied to Chilly_hands's topic in Operating Room

   We do have phone numbers, etc., but I am asking, does your facility have all this done prior to day of surgery and what department handles this? Ours has the surgeon consent, done through surgeon office. Then there is anesthesia consent (anes must ...

4. Consents from patients who cannot sign for self

   Chilly_hands replied to Chilly_hands's topic in Operating Room

   I suppose I am not specific enough. At my hospital, preadmission testing calls patients for phone assmt. Then pt comes for labs, etc. surgical consents are signed in provider office or day of surgery. Anes. Consent is signed day of surgery. Hip...

5. Consents from patients who cannot sign for self

   Chilly_hands posted a topic in Operating Room

   Question: how does your surgical department obtain consents for surgery, anesthesia, hippa, consent for treatment at facility? The hospital I work at has several forms for signature for a surgical patient. My biggest issue is the patient who is c...

6. Glen Beck's hospital experience

   Chilly_hands replied to emmycRN's topic in Headlines

   I'm tired of the Glen Beck thing. You can't make all of the people happy all of the time but you can make some of the people happy some of the time. With that said, I'll stop reading the thread and go on back to trying to deliver care to my patient...

7. Glen Beck's hospital experience

   Chilly_hands replied to emmycRN's topic in Headlines

   Here's a silly question. Did Glen Beck actually "write" the article or did someone type what he had spoken? You have to sign in to "hear" the audio and it costs to do that and I'm not that interested. If it were the case that it was him speaking, t...

8. Glen Beck's hospital experience

   Chilly_hands replied to emmycRN's topic in Headlines

   Oh....he also said he was given some medication that began with an N...perhaps Narcan??

9. Glen Beck's hospital experience

   Chilly_hands replied to emmycRN's topic in Headlines

   Regardless of his perception of what took place at the hospital, it's hard for me to fathom that none of the staff, except for one or so, would have given him good care at some point. I think Mr. Beck was anxious and frightened of being in pain and ...

10. Glen Beck's hospital experience

    Chilly_hands replied to emmycRN's topic in Headlines

    I'd be a little concerned his wife would take a guy much bigger than her, in the state he was in, into the shower. Most injuries happen in the home, in the shower. Had he fallen and cracked his head open...Yikes!.

11. Glen Beck's hospital experience

    Chilly_hands replied to emmycRN's topic in Headlines

    I'm a nurse on a short stay unit. Yes, patients having "butt" surgery are discharged the same day and I've never seen one patient in agonizing pain like Mr. Beck. If a patient were in that much pain, he'd be admitted for 23 hour observation. Mr. Be...

12. Surgeons "go ahead" problem ?

    Chilly_hands replied to OR male nurse's topic in Operating Room

    Never once has the patient been drugged before consents has been signed. Usually the Anes. Coordinator speaks to the patients first, then sometime later the surgeon comes in right before taking the patient to OR. The nurse working in the OR and the...

13. Preoperative Warming: Is this routine?

    Chilly_hands replied to jsully13's topic in PACU

    My facility puts warming blankets on preoperatively for surgical procedures lasting an hour or longer to maintain core body temperature. Sounds like a good study. Keep us updated.

14. Surgeons "go ahead" problem ?

    Chilly_hands replied to OR male nurse's topic in Operating Room

    Last year, our facility flooded on the ground floor. Surgery is on the main floor. Due to the problem, we used the holding area for storage and designated several of the pre-op rooms for holding. Now the anesthesiologist and the surgeons all meet ...

15. Patient History & Physicals

    Chilly_hands posted a topic in Operating Room

    Recently the hospital that I work for implemented the surgeons to do H&P's on patients within 30 days of scheduled surgery and then to update the H&P the day of surgery. (Sounds reasonable to me, of course). It's been a little rough to get ...