samswim4

samswim4

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About samswim4

samswim4 has 5 years experience and specializes in Operating Room.


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  1. Who Runs Your Operating Room?

    We have just implemented the charge triad team which includes the nurse-in-charge, anesthesia-in-charge, and the surgeon-in-charge. The nurse and anesthesiologist are the primary board runners with back up from the surgeon in the event there is a maj...
  2. cautery smoke evacuation

    Our OR currently uses the Buffalo Filter. It's only used by two of our surgeons on their cytoreduction cases curently. We are looking to trial the plumepen as well as the plumeport that is used in laparoscopic cases. It's actually a great smoke evacu...
  3. Passing the CNOR exam!

    Congrats! What a relief!!
  4. Scrubbing

    Our organization is about an 80/20 split. All of our RN's are trained to scrub all cases except for hearts, as they have there own team.
  5. Which Job to take?

    If you are looking to move up the management ladder, I would highly recommend the ANM position. That position will give you the opportunity to lead staff and also will give you the opportunity to learn what it takes to manage a unit, ie. staffing, bu...
  6. A Day in the Life of an OR Charge Nurse

    Sounds EXACTLY like my day. "I love my job..."
  7. Vocera or Alternative?

    My OR is exactly like Sweet Roses, except for our PCAs and anesthesia techs carry pagers and their pagers numbers are written on the boards of each OR. Works great, except for when my charge phone is ringing non-stop.
  8. Preparing for the CNOR

    I used the CCI flash cards as well as the CCI app for iPhones. The app gives you about 120 questions based on the CNOR exam. It really was a great tool. I studied for a couple of weeks and did fine. Study the AORN standards as well, because those sta...
  9. Help!! Nursing management salaries...

    Not knowing your salary it would be tough to tell. I would say $30k under your salary. What did you decide?!
  10. I don't understand why there's a question!!! If she wants to advance and needs a masters to do it, then why hasn't she. She's not going to get into management if she doesn't have a masters degree. Seems pretty simple to me...just saying. P.S. That wo...
  11. Any black male nurses out there?

    I think that's the question of the century! It shouldn't matter, but if you look at the percentage rate of African-Americans in nursing...and then look at the percentage of AA males in nursing, it's pretty disparaging. Race shouldn't matter, but when...
  12. Nurse with potty mouth.

    It's hard not to notice an unprofessional "professional."
  13. Nurse with potty mouth.

    Since when did it become O.K. for a "professional" nurse to curse in the work environment?! Why is this tolerated? There is no excuse for any staff member to curse in front of patients and family members. Clearly it shows that the person is incompete...
  14. Tired of bedside nursing

    Oh wow...you have so many different opportunities I don't know where to begin!!! You can come to the OR.
  15. Any black male nurses out there?

    I'm a newly graduated black male RN in South Carolina! In my graduating class, there were 90 of us, and I was the only AA male to graduate. The semester before me there were two. I am now working in the midst of my New Grad Orientation in the Operati...