BridgetJones

BridgetJones has 3 years experience and specializes in LTAC, OR.

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1. Do you write medication orders?

   BridgetJones replied to Ilovethe80s's topic in Operating Room

   Not sure why you would need to when the physician is the one who is actually administering the medication to the patient. We just chart what meds we dispensed to the field. X-ray and specimen orders we put in the computer as verbal orders.

2. More funny statements by surgeons

   BridgetJones replied to canesdukegirl's topic in Operating Room

   Maybe not totally on topic with this thread but I thought it was funny... Surgeon: Can we have a couple stools over here, please? (Referring to the rolling things you sit on.) ::pause:: I like the soft brown ones. Me: Sorry, all we have are the tarry...

3. Which specialty in the OR?

   BridgetJones replied to ruralgirl08's topic in Operating Room

   I'm in peds and I love it! I get lots of variety doing neonates up to 18-year-olds, and everything from cranis and spines to ear tubes.

4. Death in the OR vs. ICU

   BridgetJones replied to straycat123's topic in Operating Room

   I've had one patient code and die in the OR (s/p AAA repair, general surgeon wanted to do a "decompressive laparotomy"). I had only been off orientation a short time and the nurse in charge was not an experienced charge nurse. The next day she told m...

5. OR Pet peeves

   BridgetJones replied to MsLeylaBar's topic in Operating Room

   When anesthesia asks you to get them another bag of LR when you're all the way across the room doing something else. Seriously, if the patient is stable they can get it themselves!

6. What is the best shoes for the OR?

   BridgetJones replied to ShannonRN2010's topic in Operating Room

   I wear MBTs, the Mary Jane kind. They are SO comfortable!

7. OR Pet peeves

   BridgetJones replied to MsLeylaBar's topic in Operating Room

   When a surgeon or resident's pager goes off the second they scrub and they want you to fish it out of their back pocket and answer it before you do anything else. Surgeons who bug me about answering their pager and then sigh and roll their eyes when ...

8. Statements taken completely out of context...and are FUNNY!

   BridgetJones replied to canesdukegirl's topic in Operating Room

   Oh no Canes, no offense whatsoever! I was wishing I had something funny to post too, but I don't right at the moment. It takes more than a joke about screwing to offend an OR nurse...

9. I've had it with bedside nursing! What else can I do?

   BridgetJones replied to PCU_RN9's topic in Career Support

   Have you thought about the OR? One patient at a time, you always have lift help and there are a lot more options for shifts...lots of 8-hour days available. :-) Even better is peds OR where most of the patients are small-ish. I hated floor nursing to...

10. What's your story? Why did you take up nursing?

    BridgetJones replied to Joe V's topic in General Nursing

    I was seriously obsessed with the show ER when I was in high school and I wanted to be just like Abby Lockhart. Don't know if I thought I would snag Noah Wyle or what, but here I am in nursing (but working in the OR and not about to date a doctor).

11. Question about desaturation during induction

    BridgetJones replied to BridgetJones's topic in CRNA

    It's been a while now, but I'm pretty sure there was no end title CO2. As far as anesthesiologists doing cases by themselves goes, we have a couple "cowboys" but most of them are really good about asking for help when things start to get hairy (usual...

12. Question about desaturation during induction

    BridgetJones replied to BridgetJones's topic in CRNA

    Makes sense!

13. Question about desaturation during induction

    BridgetJones replied to BridgetJones's topic in CRNA

    Yeah, it was an uncuffed ET and the kid had some lung problems and had come down on bi-pap. I guess I was just uncomfortable because a lot of the other staff aren't confident in this particular provider and I wasn't sure how long a baby could tolerat...

14. Question about desaturation during induction

    BridgetJones replied to BridgetJones's topic in CRNA

    I called into a room I had just been in where I knew there was a peds high risk anesthesiologist and asked if she could please come in and make sure things where ok. I felt bad asking her to leave the patient in there, but they were in the middle of ...

15. Question about desaturation during induction

    BridgetJones posted a topic in CRNA

    Hi everyone, I'm a ciculator in the OR and I was hoping to run a situation I had recently past some anesthesia professionals. I was doing a case on a 3 or 4 kilo NICU kid with some chronic lung issues with an anesthesiologist who is fresh out of fell...