I had a weird case. This lady had suffered an intracranial bleed and had held on and held on in a coma on a morphine drip for almost a week. The family had been at her side non-stop and had been trying to get in touch with a son that had been estra...
MelissaRN replied to FirstYear2005's topic in General Nursing
When I was a new orientee I found that I was bored because I was doing things as I learned them and not doing everything at once. Once you get your own assignment and you don't have a preceptor doing things behind the scenes then you'll find that yo...
I'm thinking that perhaps this new nurse isn't ready for a full assignment yet? Yes she didn't do her job correctly and yes she copped an attitude, but why is she made to feel defensive?? I'm sure this isn't the first mistake she's made due to a fu...
MelissaRN replied to TravelerAdvisor's topic in Operating Room
I don't know if this is a true story or urban legend, but I was told a story about this guy that came into a walk in clinic VERY ill with a very high temp and extreme abdominal pain. They did xrays and found the skeleton of a snake and a mouse up hi...
As a nurse we know from schooling what could happen as the result of a clamped off carotid artery (which is what they do during an endarterectomy) so it's essential to know BEFORE leaving the room that the patient wasn't compromised during that time ...
MelissaRN replied to TravelerAdvisor's topic in Operating Room
I've never seen a doc throw instruments, they will slam them down on the table sometimes, but never throw. I think that it's really dangerous to throw instrumets or knives or needles, we take such effort to avoid getting stuck with contaminated shar...
We do neuro checks after the carotid surgery is finished. We have one particular doctor that likes to keep the back table and scrub sterile until the patient is awake and he sees that the patient is moving all four limbs.
I've been doing this a little over a year and I really enjoy my work hours which are three 12 hour shifts, only one weekend every 5 weeks and not as much holiday work. I worked the floor for over a year and it was a miserable time. Patient care was ...
I work in a hospital that's the "trauma center" for a wide area in our state. Nights can be dull or they can get slammed. They get alot of emergency appy's, emergency splenectomies from car crashes, broken bones, the occassional AAA's etc. We hav...
I for the most part enjoy my job as an OR nurse. The only piece missing is that I can't scrub and haven't come up with a way that I could consistently learn. We have a scrub tech program so they don't have time to drain the nurses consistenly. The ...
MelissaRN replied to squareface's topic in Operating Room
I worked for a year as an acute care RN on a ortho/neuro floor. The stress and constantly trying to coordinate care for several patients at once was tricky especially when you had new admits and post ops on top of all that. The OR is stressful but ...
I've been working as an OR circulating nurse for about 9 months. My orientation was long (about 6 months) and I still feel like a rookie. I think that being able to function in any kind of capacity as a circulator after 6 months is a huge accomplis...
I really love my New Balance slip ons. The are like sneakers but slide on. The part that goes over the top of the foot stretches so they don't dig into your feet. Everyone is always asking where I got them. I bought them online at Brown's New Bal...