calliesmom96

calliesmom96 specializes in Med/Surge, Operating Room.

Latest Activity

1. How do I get a Cali liscense?

   calliesmom96 replied to FutureNurse2B's topic in Travel

   Good luck with getting the California license. I applied for one last September and I still don't have it. I've had to send in fingerprint cards 3 different times, and I'm still not sure if they've accepted the latest ones. I recently received a lett...

2. Perioperative Nurse Intern......

   calliesmom96 replied to LuvScrubs2's topic in Operating Room

   I did an OR nursing internship at Lehigh Valley Hospital in Allentown. It was an 18-week course, during which we learned to both circulate and scrub. If you made it through the course, and not everyone did, you were guaranteed a job, although not a p...

3. OR Pet peeves

   calliesmom96 replied to MsLeylaBar's topic in Operating Room

   I have a couple of pet peeves. First is when the ST saves all the sponges until the end, then throws them all at once into the kick bucket and announces they are ready to count. 2nd peeve is having the surgeon and all the residents and med students d...

4. Have any OR Travelers taken the PBDS?

   calliesmom96 replied to calliesmom96's topic in Travel

   I am with TGHealthcare out of Omaha, and have a really awesome recruiter, Melissa, who got me my assignment going to Oklahoma City next week. This will be my first time traveling, and I think it was kind of difficult getting an assignment. There was ...

5. Have any OR Travelers taken the PBDS?

   calliesmom96 posted a topic in Travel

   I've been an OR nurse for over 3 years (worked med/surg for 16 years before that), and I'm about to start my first travel assignment. I found out I have to take the PBDS, and am a bit nervous about it. I see other people mention it for Med/surg, Crit...