Surgery182

Surgery182

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Surgery182 has 2 years experience and specializes in OR.


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  1. A Day in the Life of an OR Charge Nurse

    You're a hero for doing it. They couldn't pay me enough to charge/babysit. Thank you for stepping up and doing it so that others don't have to! It really is a thankless position most of the time.
  2. Austin, TX ORs?

    Anyone have an opinion on what it's like to work for Scott and White or Seton in the Austin area? Planning a move to the area and just curious if one of the hospital systems is better than the other. It appears that both are not for profit hospital...
  3. Comparing A Nurses' Salary

    @RCBR Why would you go to a larger university and pay tens of thousands of dollars to get the same degree that you could have gotten much cheaper at a community college? You can't necessarily argue that you got a better education because the content...
  4. union in Utah

    Hospitals in Utah will be the absolute last ones in the country to allow a Union to enter. Unions are way too much of a threat to IHC and their low hourly rates.
  5. Utah RN pay, Salt Lake City area

    Yes average is $21 an hour. Typically no you will not get paid more for having a bachelors degree although I believe that IHC prefers it to increase their "magnet status." (That last part may not be correct). $62,000 a year average is probably cor...
  6. More funny statements by surgeons

    Distal radius case today...Surgeon says, "How does that shaft look?" Well Doc I don't really swing that way but it looks ok to me.
  7. More funny statements by surgeons

    We are suppose to send all explanted hardware to the pathologist for gross ID. The other day she received some screws in a plastic biohazard bag that had punched through. Today the pathologist called. Pathologist: "Please tell your staff to double...
  8. More funny statements by surgeons

    The other day a resident was feeling a mass and stated, "I've never felt one so big before!" I quickly replied, "That's what she said!"
  9. Utah RN pay, Salt Lake City area

    Here's my take on the whole thing...First, there is no action on the Utah board. Second, just like others have said, it's a supply demand issue. There are nursing schools churning out students like crazy, most of which will work for $15 an hour if ...
  10. new grad, OR

    If you want to do it, then it is possible. It may require flexibility on your part though. Some OR's may not be willing or have the resources to train a new grad or someone new in general to the OR. You may have to move to a place that has a new g...
  11. RN's how much do you make here in Utah?

    You have some good points...it seems like the majority of people here want it both ways though. They want to stay where they like living and get paid more (who wouldn't). I don't see an increase in wages ever happening though because most nurses he...
  12. RN's how much do you make here in Utah?

    The problem with nursing in Utah has two parts. Part 1: there is almost no competition among the hospital systems. IHC is a monopoly and can therefore pay nurses whatever they want, because where else are they going to go; Universtity Hospital who...
  13. How did everyone get into the OR?

    I think one of the keys to getting in to the OR, especially as a new grad, is to start working on that before or during nursing school. Start out as a scrub or an aid. 2 years before I started nursing school I was hired in an OR to work as a nurses a...