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  1. Sterile nacl or h2o???

    neither...I am talking about during surgical procedures. What do you irrigate the wounds with?
  2. Sterile nacl or h2o???

    hi. I was trained that we give sterile water for cancer cases (breast, etc...) Something about being hypotonic and its effect on lingering cells. I tried giving water at my new job and they thought I was crazy. Wouldn't take it...and started to ques...
  3. Can you ever go from a big OR to a small OR and be happy?

    lmao!!! I had to keep looking at the name to make sure I didn't write the post gadgetrn !! Started in a LARGE inner city hospital. 22 rooms....complete chaos 24/7. High stress, overworked, understaffed, can't get instruments, shoddy preference car...
  4. How long do o.r. nurses with experience orientate for on the average at your place. My new place also does ortho, which I have never done. Just curious.
  5. Karmanos interview

    10,000 dollars??? You are for sure selling your soul for 10 g's.
  6. Death in the OR vs. ICU

    I would love to hear the answer on this....cause it is quite apparent that death in the o.r. is not cool. Whenever someone is going "bad" they want to ship them asap to icu.
  7. Karmanos interview

    congrats to you...hopefully you will be making a little more than a dmc start. Karmanos is separate from the DMC.
  8. Where have you found missing countable items?

    cottonoid stuck to shoe raytech inside a glove finger (how/why I don't know) cottonoid got sucked up inside suction canister My least favorite though is when I had 1 too many raytecs. We finally came to conclusion that it was left in kickbucket from...
  9. New Grad to the OR....good decision?

    I knew in school I wanted to be in the o.r. My mission was to bypass the floor all together. It was very difficult, but I found a place to take me right after school and five years later, never not once have regretted by decision. I was a nurse te...
  10. hello...been doing the main o.r. thing for 5 years. pretty much seen it all. Getting tired of the overtime, call, weekends,etc... We turn into a trauma center on offshifts but we aren't and we don't staff as such either. I am thinking of making the...
  11. are c sections a norm?

    hello, work in a 22 room BUSY o.r., but all c sections are done in the the "woman's hospital" attached to our facility. How do other hospitals work c sections. Do they have their own wing on the L&D floor or do they bring them down/up to main o....
  12. for those of you who work offshifts...

    starting from Saturday morning through Monday 7 a.m. there is only 1 nurse and 1 tech on so she is the charge nurse. We are not a trauma o.r., but it is constant. There is no down time. There are times I walk in at 7a.m. saturday and there are 8 BO...
  13. my hospital has been bought by vanguard

    ha! that is a pretty nasty entrance isn't it? I just see them cutting back on benefits and medical costing us more etc....to boost their profits cause that's the name of the game...for profit hospital.
  14. for those of you who work offshifts...

    so normally I work days, but as of late I have been scheduled afternoons and midnights on the weekends cause there is no one else to do it. Well, anyway this past Saturday I clocked in at 10:45p.m. to find that there was a case going on. Fine...my is...
  15. my hospital has been bought by vanguard

    so, the detroit medical center has been bought out by vanguard. Anyone have any experience or heard of experiences. I am know there is going to be lots of equipment bought, remodeling, blah blah. My concern is how will my time off be affected, my 4...