TravORNurse

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1. "Nurses Are So Mean"

   TravORNurse replied to Ruby Vee's topic in Patient, Colleague Relations

   Nurses are seen as mean because they are. I've been in the field for 10 years now and have seen that no-one will screw you faster then another nurse. I heard somewhere that if one person says...

2. Mount St. Mary's College LA - Accelerated BSN 2010

   TravORNurse replied to BNice74's topic in California Nursing

   Can anyone tell me how to make a new post on here? I cant find anything about how to start a

3. The BEST Companies

   TravORNurse replied to silly1982's topic in Travel

4. Banner Good Samaritan

   TravORNurse replied to momofsix's topic in Arizona Nursing

   I don't know about L&D, but I had a very bad experience working in the OR of this

5. TNAA (Travel nurse across america) company

   TravORNurse replied to Beneficence's topic in Travel

   I have worked for this company. They are great as long as nothing goes wrong at the hospital. I recently had a contract canceled for attitude by a hospital where I wouldn't get breaks until after 7...

6. Verbal Abuse from surgeons in the OR

   TravORNurse replied to spineCNOR's topic in Operating Room

   When that happens to me I ask them if their fingers are broken. Sometimes they push to see how far they can push you or how far you will go to please them. If you have anesthesia techs in your...

7. Count Sheet help

   TravORNurse replied to tareq's topic in Operating Room

   No, we don't keep count sheets in the pt chart. If the count is off from the initial count I might keep them to send to sterile processing so they know what was missing to start with. That way they...

8. Verbal Abuse from surgeons in the OR

   TravORNurse replied to spineCNOR's topic in Operating Room

   There is usually a board of Dr.s that deal with bad/poor behavior from surgeons. If you can find out who deals with that kind of behavior from Dr.'s at your facility maybe you can put something...

9. Preparing the room with MRSA patients

   TravORNurse replied to Jane1988's topic in Operating Room

   In most of the hospitals I've been to, we wear personal protective equipment while dealing with a MRSA pt. Most of the MRSA cases are scheduled for the end of the day so the rooms can be terminally...

10. Count Sheet help

    TravORNurse replied to tareq's topic in Operating Room

    I've worked as a traveling nurse in 6 ORs and in 3 as staff. At all of the facilities we used the instrument processing sheets that came with the sets also. If there was something missing or extra...

11. Do You Circulate All Specialties At Your Facility?

    TravORNurse replied to IsseyM's topic in Operating Room

    During my time as staff with a hospital, I worked the evening shift. Because the evening people couldn't specialize, we did everything. I think it made me a stronger nurse because now I circulate...

12. Am I being blackballed?

    TravORNurse replied to GadgetRN71's topic in Operating Room

    While you were working with them, did they give you evaluations of your work? Either when you were being precepted or yearly. If they did and it said you were acceptable, and you saved them, you...

13. Has anyone worked in the OR at Stanford?

    TravORNurse posted a topic in General Nursing

    I am having a horrible experience in the OR at Stanford. I have gotten no support from the administrative/supervisory staff and it seems like the nurses just want to pick eachother apart. I have...

14. Would you want your children to go into nursing?

    TravORNurse replied to 2rntish's topic in General Nursing

    Absolutely not. I have worked in many areas in many different professional roles and never have experienced the level of back stabbing and poor leadership that I've seen while in the medical field....

15. Stanford hospital - your experience as new grad?

    TravORNurse replied to smile123's topic in California Nursing