MS*OR*RN

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1. OR nurses & students

   MS*OR*RN replied to RNin2007's topic in Operating Room

   I agree that sometimes there are just too many "extra " people in the OR. As an example in my Or the other day and I had to refuse to take a Nursing student, and unfortunate as it was, the student was present to see me refuses to take her. Let me...

2. new rn

   MS*OR*RN replied to Elizabeth19's topic in Operating Room

   Tely can be a very fast paced place and you will learn a lot, A lot of hospitals will not take a new RN there either. Learn this special area not like you are going to be leaving soon, but as if this is the only thing that you want to do. If you hav...

3. new rn

   MS*OR*RN replied to Elizabeth19's topic in Operating Room

   My backgroung is from tele/stepdown/interventional cardiology. I never really spent anytime on M/S floor.

4. new rn

   MS*OR*RN replied to Elizabeth19's topic in Operating Room

   I agree, I think everyone should work on a floor/unit before coming to the OR. It can be a tough environment to work in. The floor/unit can teach you so many things. I also think that sometimes it is easily forgotten how hard it can be to work on th...

5. New OR RN needs help

   MS*OR*RN replied to RollingThunder's topic in Operating Room

   Bravo on passing your boards!!! The OR can be a very intimadating place, it's very busy, always changing and you will feel "edgey" almost all the time. I've been in the OR for 15 months, I had a formal 7 month peri-op internship at a large teach...

6. call pay

   MS*OR*RN replied to callbabe's topic in Operating Room

   I work in a larger OR in the Metro Detroit area, we get 4.00 an hour to carry the pager and time and a half if we are called in, we are paid a 4 hour minimum.

7. being an OR nurse

   MS*OR*RN replied to spinyerselfdizy's topic in Operating Room

   I came off a Cardiac/Stepdown unit, I was there for appox. 3 years. We were all ACLS, ran our own codes ( no code teams ), but I found that I really needed to do one on one care and ICU was not an option at the other hospital that I worked at. ( anot...

8. being an OR nurse

   MS*OR*RN replied to spinyerselfdizy's topic in Operating Room

   I love the OR, I couldn't imagine being anywhere else.

9. Allmost killed a patient by medication

   MS*OR*RN replied to Great Dane's topic in General Nursing

   Med errors happen and need to be delt with as soon as they are noticed or occur. The pt is our main concern, deal with that first..inform Dr....pharmacy, etc. Treat, observe whatever it takes. Then figure out why it happened,usually it is a system p...