ORJUNKIE

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1. OR Student Experience

   ORJUNKIE replied to WI-RN2be's topic in Operating Room

   Bummer! Love to hear from you. Get it a rest and try again later! Sometimes you just have to regroup! Take care - Carrie

2. Surgical Cap

   ORJUNKIE replied to Ritara's topic in Operating Room

   AORN won't support use of these caps unless you can prove that there is no increase in infection rate. They are concerned that you can't monitor if people are washing them ... Hate to be a bummer, but JCAHO creamed us on this one.

3. Sterile field monitored constantly? Define please

   ORJUNKIE replied to Hannah Rose's topic in Operating Room

   AORN standards are the recognized authority for periop nursing. They prescribe that someone must be in any room that has been opened for a procedure to ensure that no contamination has occurred. This can be someone who remains sterile or not. Use thi...

4. RNFA 'S

   ORJUNKIE replied to CATHY RNFA's topic in Operating Room

   I think that there has not been a good job in the education of what CRNFA really means. This is a big bone of contention where I work because a few people attended a TWO week course (and they really think they are qualified to be consultant assistant...

5. Circulators

   ORJUNKIE replied to StudentSandra's topic in Operating Room

   At the risk of insulting many good CSTs, in 22 years of OR nursing, I've yet to find one who remotely had the amount of education equivalent to that of an RN. The scrub nurse role is primarily technical in nature and many an RN cannot do it well. How...

6. Occurence Reports

   ORJUNKIE replied to Hannah Rose's topic in Operating Room

   I have been advised that you chart that which you "invasively" do to the patient. In the instance of the armboard, if there is no apparent injury to the extremity, an incident report would suffice. This would then be available for later issues of con...

7. Laporoscopic to Open cases

   ORJUNKIE replied to EvanovichRN's topic in Operating Room

   We have worked diligently with our physicians to promote efficient yet effective use of resources, including number of instruments opened for cases. To get to that point, we established "constituency" teams of physicians, key OR staff, representativ...

8. What are specific duties for the scrub...

   ORJUNKIE replied to KarenHalse's topic in Operating Room

   You're experiencing one of our age old conflicts in the OR! Sometimes, you even hear of the opposite happening and it will be that the RN takes advantage of the ORT, which is just as big of a problem. As our peers have indicated, the key to a smooth...

9. OR Student Experience

   ORJUNKIE replied to WI-RN2be's topic in Operating Room

   The time is "long overdue" to disband the notion that going straight to the OR after school will harm your nursing abilities should you decide to move back to floor nursing. (although most folks never go back once they get a GOOD taste of the OR) Yo...