ShariDCST

ShariDCST

CST in general surgery, LDRs, & podiatry

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About ShariDCST

ShariDCST specializes in CST in general surgery, LDRs, & podiatry.


I was an LPN student in 1977 and '78. Unable to finish due to complications of pregnancy. EMT later, and then CST for 15 years from 1993 to now. Now retired due to R Rotator Cuff injury leaving severely decreased ROM in right arm permanently.

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  1. Curious - Who is "dianah" and why is she editing my page? The bottom of my page says "Last edit by dianah on Mar 1 : Reason: misspelling, add comment". I put that there myself when I corrected something - but my name isn't "dianah"....
  2. Feeling light headed while scrubbing

    Speaking from two different angles here. One involved 2 years of Air Force Jr ROTC in High School, involving lots of marching and mostly standing in formations outside for long periods of time. The first rule we learned was to not lock your knees whi...
  3. I worked in many different sizes and types of facilities, from 3 OR county hospitals, to major metro teaching hospitals to a private 2 OR surgery center, and about everything in between. (I wasn't a "job hopper" ~ I worked as a "temp" or Traveling Te...
  4. OR call

    Wow. To be perfectly honest, it sounds like a disaster waiting to happen. It looks like there are two options. Either Adminstration keeps on blindly as they are, simply hoping nothing bad ever happens to anyone, and putting their necks out for troubl...
  5. OR call

    Curious ~ what makes the difference between a weekend that has scheduled call and one that doesn't? Now, before anyone says "it means one weekend is covered and one isn't" that's not at all what I mean. Obviously if some weekends have been scheduled,...
  6. Patient complaints after being in stirrups

    I was a CST for a group of 12 Podiatric Surgeons at their surgery center for over 5.years, and for the procedures you mentioned, no stirrup was ever used. In fact, it would have made the whole procedure very awkward and clumsy, and would have served ...
  7. Phrases and puns unique to the OR (Tales of a new OR nurse)

    Most of the time the propofol is known as "Milk of Amnesia"! Great stuff - I have had it myself and it always does the job with no bothersome side effects.
  8. On call... 24 hours??

    Your call requirements depend entirely on the facility where you work, their staffing levels, the kinds of cases and surgeons they have and so on. Every facility has its own quirks and idiosyncracies concerning who takes call, how long, how often, wh...
  9. gowning and gloving technique

    Or you could just open gloves first, putting them on the bottom under the gown. No need then to slide things round, less risk of contamination, and is an easier flow to work from top to bottom. This is the method we were taught by a seasoned OR nurse...
  10. gowning and gloving technique

    Never did it either way actually. There shouldn't be anything on top of your gown at all except a towel before going out to scrub. I always gowned and gloved myself, so gown had to be accessible first (after the sterile towel of course) and gloves we...
  11. "Really...all I need is a bovie and a hemostat"

    I used to scrub at a small county hospital with 4 OR's, one of which was a dedicated eye/cataract room. So we usually just counted the other three. There was a female GYN surgeon who absolutely had to have every posssible instrument in the building f...
  12. What's the weirdest baby name?

    -Working where I do now (since having to retire from the ORs due to several physical limitations which seem to want to stick around permanently) I got a call the other night from an obviously middle-aged sounding woman who needed to speak promptly wi...
  13. What's the weirdest baby name?

    "...wonderful parents..." ????????? That's the most puzzling part of your statement, actually......time to cash yourself a "reality check.":rolleyes:
  14. What's the weirdest baby name?

    She did inform some of the inqusitive folk - "The dash ain't silent!" Too bad she wasn't - silent, that is........
  15. What's the weirdest baby name?

    Oh for goodness sakes - it's "La-ah"! Can't you spell?? :rolleyes: