odos

odos has 3 years experience and specializes in OR.

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1. military spouse Germany

   odos posted a topic in Government

   My husband is in the air force and we found out we will be locating to Spangdahlem next year. I am a nurse and would like to know how job prospects are in Germany for spouses either in German hospitals or the clinic on base. I know we are within 1.5...

2. Working in the OR during pregnancy

   odos replied to maraORRN's topic in Operating Room

   Talk to radiology about getting a fetal radiology badge in addition to your own radiology badge. According to the department head of the radiology dept of the hospital I work in- when you are pregnant you should be wearing two badges. The fetal bad...

3. New Grad-Hired for OR-Any advice?

   odos replied to rnbb84's topic in Operating Room

   Yes- for most it does take a long time to be completely comfortable. I'd say it took me almost 2 years to really feel confident. Some days will be tough. Remember you have to get along with a team of people so don't take things too personally. Reme...

4. Opportunities for OR Nurses

   odos replied to paul3489's topic in Operating Room

   If you want to be a CRNA don't waste your time in the OR. CRNA schools want you to have critical care experience and OR is not critical care. The OR can lead you to being an RNFA, OR educator, Surgical Rep, OR director and sometimes you can be an N...

5. Choosing a service

   odos replied to hs2005's topic in Operating Room

   I agree with RNOTODAY. Go for general surgery. It'll get you use to the instruments and keeping track of your counts. Plus a lot of call cases are general procedures such as lap choles and lap appys.

6. Circulators-do you ENJOY your position?

   odos replied to luvapug's topic in Operating Room

   You need to give it some time. Don't get me wrong, it can get very boring but it won't be like that every day. Plus, you aren't on your own yet so right now you have that preceptor to make sure everything is done and you may not even realize it's b...

7. Interested in OR for the future

   odos replied to katygw's topic in Operating Room

   My first job out of RN school was in med surg and I lasted about 2 months. It was hell! I cried almost every day. I wanted to be an OR nurse from the very beginning so I was happy to finally land a job as a OR nurse soon after the med surg position...

8. Please HELP!!! I am so confused

   odos replied to elilop's topic in Operating Room

   I think it really depends. There are some ORs that do a lot of ophthalmic procedures so if you took the per diem job it might help you get into an OR that does a lot of eyes and that would be an advantage for you because it is so specialized. The OR...

9. Can you ever go from a big OR to a small OR and be happy?

   odos replied to GadgetRN71's topic in Operating Room

   To answer your question- YES! you can go from a big OR to a small OR and be happy. I went through a similar change. It did get some getting use to though. It took about 3 months for me. It was very hard in the beginning. I missed doing the "big" c...

10. How to become an OR nurse?

    odos replied to chickadeepie's topic in Operating Room

    Talk to the OR director and let them know you are interested in the OR and would like to shadow. Even though you are not an experienced OR nurse- you are an experienced nurse so that always helps. I don't think you'd have to take a class- I'm not su...

11. New grad RN wants to work in OR!

    odos replied to jujubee1's topic in Operating Room

    What I did is I called HR and then asked direct contact information to the OR director or OR manager. That way you can get a feel from HR if the OR is hiring and with the direct contact information you can more easily get in touch with the OR depart...

12. Ball State University MSN

    odos replied to ksteen's topic in NP Students

    I am interested in applying to Ball State's online FNP program. How are the classes conducted? Are there lectures that you download online or is it JUST assigned reading and powerpoints?

13. Will I ever get it?

    odos replied to oscar6802's topic in Operating Room

    Everything will be OK. I am new nurse and new to the OR. I've been in orientation for about 3 months now and only in the last couple of weeks have I started to feel even a little comfortable. My educator told me that it will take about a year until ...

14. Really Wanting To Start Nursing Career In The OR

    odos replied to techraider77's topic in Operating Room

    You should do both! Contact HR/submit your resume and contact the nurse manager. Just because your job searches don't pull up info on any formal internships it may be that the hospitals have them but they just don't do a good job displaying that they...

15. suction canister

    odos posted a topic in Operating Room

    after a surgery was over i attempted to change out a full suction canister but it started to splatter out. an attendant ended up getting it. i'm still orienting so if i come across this situation again. what's the best way to prevent it splattering...