huckfinn

huckfinn specializes in All Surgical Specialties.

Latest Activity

1. Nervous About Weekends & Call

   huckfinn replied to IsseyM's topic in Operating Room

   IsseyM- I agree with TakeTwo. The charge nurse will not let you get into trouble. Unless that person has a cowboy/girl mentality about emergencies. Nobody wants to get overwhelmed when the case gets tough. Remember your basic knowledge and put i...

2. Nervous About Weekends & Call

   huckfinn replied to IsseyM's topic in Operating Room

   Abdominal Aortic Aneurysm

3. Do you know of anyone who caught a incurable disease in the O.R.?

   huckfinn replied to mikethern's topic in Operating Room

   I know of a CV SurgeryPA who got a blood drop splash in the eye. She was wearing safety glasses with side protectors but somehow the drop got around. The drop was infected with a herpetic virus. It blinded her dominant eye.

4. What are you using for vag preps?

   huckfinn replied to suet's topic in Operating Room

   Technicare is a great bacteriocide. Too good actually. Be sure to wash the vagina out with lots of water or saline after the case or your patient is likely to get a yeast infection. The sustained kill of the prep slows repopulation of normal flora...

5. Guys in Support Hose?

   huckfinn replied to mcknis's topic in Men

   Straight to the bone and wear Kendall knee high TED's when I can get the rep. to comp me some. Too expensive to buy. My legs really feel good after a 10 hour day on an epoxy over concrete OR floor. and now that I think about it I feel real sexy p...

6. Modesty Issues

   huckfinn replied to ToryAdore's topic in Operating Room

   Ferret, OH HO! The double en'tandre. Seriously...major lubrication helps the cath go in easier. Have you ever got the thing halfway in and hit a dry spot? Yes that applies to both situations. OUCH! Incidently, the lubrication/penetration bit ca...

7. Modesty Issues

   huckfinn replied to ToryAdore's topic in Operating Room

   Tory, I'm curious. You are a nurse at only 19years old? That is an amazing accomplishment! So you graduated HS at 16 or 17 and then completed your AD and state boards by 19? Your school must not have had the multi-year waiting period to enroll i...

8. Reprocessing?!???

   huckfinn replied to ortess1971's topic in Operating Room

   Please read the spirited exchange from other members on this very subject. There is also a discussion on the AHVAP website. Remember to think about stringent gov. regs and science. Leave your emotions on the platform this is a wild ride. https://a...

9. Have OR Experience - But No Job!

   huckfinn replied to Surgicell's topic in Operating Room

   Get in contact with the manager of the OR at the place you would like to work. Applications go through HR and end up in the nursing pile, sometimes never to be forwarded to the OR. Get the contact info and make the call. You have everything to gai...

10. What is the purpose of the cap designed on every laparoscopic inst?

    huckfinn replied to inches's topic in Operating Room

    The insuflators have a pressure control mechanism that adjusts the gas volume and pressure dependent on the machine settings. Anyway, have you considered the gas displacment of a 5 or 10 mm instrument? Multiply the length that is actually in the tr...

11. Verbal abuse in the OR

    huckfinn replied to JaneRNBSN's topic in Operating Room

    Joke: Do you know what the first thing a surgeon's spouse does with their a**hole when they wake up in the morning? Dress 'em up and send 'em to work.

12. What is the purpose of the cap designed on every laparoscopic inst?

    huckfinn replied to inches's topic in Operating Room

    For cleaning and steam penetration. The pressure equalization story is crap.

13. Interview question for new grad

    huckfinn replied to NYNewGrad's topic in General Nursing

    Offer them you credentials and additional abilities re: languages and anything else you think of that puts you ahead of the rest and then say you are only looking for day shift employment. If you really feel those are the only hours you are willing ...

14. funniest thing you saw a nurse do.......

    huckfinn replied to cre8tivRN's topic in General Nursing

    In surgery many a nurse will cut the balloon port off of a foley instead of aspirating the fluid out before pulling the cath out. I once saw a nurse pull on the foley and cut the whole thing. Up the cath stub shot into the bladder. Had to delay th...

15. Re-sterilizing Off-pump CABG supplies

    huckfinn replied to poopsiebear's topic in Operating Room

    Oncall, On the reprocessing of items-It is up to the clinical site as to use or not to use. The fact that the FDA certifying the individual items for the number of times it can be used, is a scientifically investigated process. Not just some guy sa...