LAM2010 BSN

LAM2010 has 14 years experience as a BSN and specializes in O.R. Nursing - ENT, CTC, Vasc..

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1. Circulator scrub training

   LAM2010 replied to JenniJean14's topic in Operating Room

   I work for a VA that required circulators to learn how to scrub. At the moment, that training is on hold for new-to-us circulators, because a lot of the experienced circ-scrub RNs still felt like the half-a**ED training we got isn't fair. Scrub tec...

2. Advice for A New RN in the OR

   LAM2010 replied to dparasiliti's topic in Operating Room

   We had an OR nurse who was actually a NP, she just decided she liked the OR work. But after awhile she got a job as a NP for the anesthesia department. Also, our surgeons use PAs and NPs in their clinics but also bring them to the OR as assistants,...

3. Skin antisepsis guides

   LAM2010 replied to kdstewart's topic in Operating Room

   - AORN guidelines or articles - Textbook - Alexander's "Care of the Patient in Surgery" - Berry and Kohn's "Operating Room Technique" Maybe some Elsevier modules on your facility's education intranet? Access research journals ab...

4. Periop101

   LAM2010 replied to hearte's topic in Operating Room

   I got a job as an OR nurse as a new grad because I had done a management clinical with their director and so they got to know what kind of nurse and coworker/team member I'd be. You could maybe get a job at the facility that's not in OR, then try to...

5. Surgical Techs Running O.R. Board?

   LAM2010 replied to LAM2010's topic in Operating Room

   Thanks for the responses. Someday soon I guess I'll have more curious questions about weird stuff we do. LOL.

6. Hospitals who count all instruments on all surgical cases

   LAM2010 replied to LAM2010's topic in Operating Room

   Thanks for the replies. I agree, it sure does take up time. We're trying to standardize a "flow" so we can try to stay within our turnover times. It's stressful.

7. Hospitals who count all instruments on all surgical cases

   LAM2010 posted a topic in Operating Room

   Yes, I am asking, ALL cases? Even cataracts. Is your hospital counting everything that touches the patient? Ours is making us.

8. Surgical Techs Running O.R. Board?

   LAM2010 replied to LAM2010's topic in Operating Room

   I couldn't find anything anywhere else so I brought it here. 😁 I don't see a problem with it but some RNs have a problem with it because "it's not in their (STs) scope of practice". And then I wonder, "am I not informed enough about my scope of pra...

9. Surgical Techs Running O.R. Board?

   LAM2010 posted a topic in Operating Room

   I'm a surgical RN, I circulate and scrub. CSTs (or just STs) are now learning to run our O.R. board. where I work. Typically an RN has done it. A group of them rotate weeks, they do a week at a time. The "board runner" RNs were called "charge". S...

10. Newbie OR Nurse

    LAM2010 replied to LJOHRrn's topic in Operating Room

    It will get better. 12 weeks is not enough time to feel 100% proficient. If you know your way around the O.R. and everyone's names, you're set! (Sort of, haha. You know where to go for help). The rest comes with time. Even 6 to 9 months isn't l...

11. Thinking of being a circulator?...Think twice.

    LAM2010 replied to OR Dude's topic in Operating Room

    Becoming an OR nurse (circulator, anyway) DOES have to be considered carefully. It's not easy and after orientation is over, you either love it or you hate it. I know how the OP feels; in my career there have been a handful of scrubs that gave me c...

12. Where do OR nurses go?

    LAM2010 replied to learningnurse's topic in Operating Room

    Clinical Nurse Leaders or whatever they're called - My O.R. has one of those. She was a Clinical Facilitator until she got her degree, and now she is a CNL. I don't know if my brain could handle that right now, I'm going through a little burn-out ....

13. Bair Hugger and Safety Belt

    LAM2010 replied to SQueenRN's topic in Operating Room

    You know, we always have this debate where I work, and I've been putting the belt under the Bair blanket and then I just keep my eye on the Bair blanket to see if it's slipping (it never does). We do have metal belt clips, and I've never felt one ge...

14. Can't get my foot in the OR door, help!

    LAM2010 replied to ylime92's topic in Operating Room

    Can you ask to observe in the O.R. where you work? Everywhere I've worked will let a nurse observe in the O.R. If not on your own scheduled shifts (if you ever have slow days, lol...), maybe on an off day? Then, you will have your face in there. ...

15. OR sabotage? Or Not....

    LAM2010 replied to strive's topic in Operating Room

    Sometimes people think "throwing you to the wolves" helps you learn. Looking back, it helped me, LOL. Although I would never do it to anyone I was in charge of... When I first started in the O.R. I was also just out of nursing school, and for the ...