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beanal

Perioperative Nursing

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About beanal

beanal specializes in Perioperative Nursing.


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  1. Sell Your Nursing Knowledge

    Believe it or not there are people on the internet who actually are educated and have credentials. If a nurse is honest and has valuable and credible information to share with the public what better way to do it than by writing an ebook. Researchers...
  2. Sell Your Nursing Knowledge

    When you first start writing for hire you may only get $10 an article. But if you are writing about a health related topic that you are very familiar with you can write an article in about 15 minutes. If you look for IM forums on google then you can ...
  3. Electrical safety in operating Room

    Re: electrical safety: Also do a visual inspection of the electrical cords of all OR equipment prior to use. Especially the OR table cord as sometimes the cord will be underneath the foot of the table and when the table is locked the cord is cut and ...
  4. What do you think of a NEW RN trying the OR?

    I think it is OK for a new grad to start in the OR as long as you have an good solid orientation with a nurse educator. I don't agree with new grads being shuffled around from nurse to nurse for the orientation process. It's confusing and potentially...
  5. Just got hired!!

    Congratulations! If I had one piece of advice it would be to know your OR hospital policies and procedures very well. Also read AORN (American Operating Room Nursing) Standards. If you are going to be mentored by many different nurses throughout your...
  6. Sell Your Nursing Knowledge

    Students would not be able to sell these types of articles as they are only 400-600 words and are written for the lay person on health care related topics. I have written on various subjects such as diabetes, heart disease, high blood pressure and mi...
  7. Sell Your Nursing Knowledge

    Anyone out there frustrated with their present nursing job? I was there a few years ago and then started writing health care related articles online for internet marketers. You can supplement your nursing income writing 400-600 word articles. There ...
  8. SOOO sick of my job already!!

    As as a nurse you have options. For example if you know how to write you could write some articles for online marketers. There are literally hundreds of people who have health related websites who are looking for fresh and unique content to put on t...
  9. Advanced Practice Nursing in the OR

    I use to be a CRNFA before they had this official certification. It was so much fun and in my opinion is much better than being a PA as you just get to operate all day long. It was a blast and so exciting! One day you will be assisting with a craniot...
  10. Foley Balloon Test

    It depends on the patient as to whether or not I check the balloon. Most patients I do check the ballon but I don't for patients with a hx of BPH as it is hard enough to try to get the foley inserted with an enlarged prostate. I don't want to take th...
  11. Why Black Eyes?

    I heard of a patient going blind in one eye when a first assistant was using a Deaver for abdominal surgery retraction. The assistants elbow was resting on the eye of the patient for an extended period of time and the patient was briused and subseque...
  12. Advice from circulating nurses...

    Shadowing an experienced OR nurse for a day who loves to teach will be an invaluable experience and will allow you to better understand the perioperative role. If you are able to observe just be sure you are paired with a nurse who enjoys teaching as...
  13. Our hospital has 16 OR's, 8 nurse managers and 7 coordinators not including the OR director, asst. director and VP. One of our nurse managers shared in the locker room that she has "never worked so little and gotten paid so much." This made the nurse...
  14. AORN has a great video on OR fires that was produced a few years ago. Just contact them and they will send you a copy. It very informative and very well done.
  15. Verbal Abuse from surgeons in the OR

    Our OR management and administrators pays lip service to having zero tolerance for verbal abuse from anyone not just surgeons. I think this year since one of the patient safety goals deals with verbal abuse that the university hospital will start to ...