Axmann, RN, BSN, NREMT-B

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1. Circulating vs. Scrubbing

   Axmann, RN, BSN, NREMT-B replied to NursieB's topic in Operating Room

   Major Level I trauma center teaching hospital here, and we aren't automatically taught to scrub =\ How does someone advocate for more experience in that respect?

2. How to get to scrub more as an OR nurse

   Axmann, RN, BSN, NREMT-B replied to Axmann, RN, BSN, NREMT-B's topic in Operating Room

   If I ever did apply elsewhere where RNs scrub and circulate, would I be an unappealing candidate coming from a facility where scrubbing is mostly done by CSTs? I'm just nervous about being "locked into" a circulator-only role.

3. How to get to scrub more as an OR nurse

   Axmann, RN, BSN, NREMT-B posted a topic in Operating Room

   As a circulating RN at a hospital where scrubs are mostly CSTS, how do you get more experience wit scrubbing? Do you get stuck into a box as "only a circulator" if you don't do it much? How do you advocate to do more scrubbing? Would it be weird to a...

4. RN to CST? Unheard of?

   Axmann, RN, BSN, NREMT-B posted a topic in General Nursing

   Would it be unheard of for an RN (BSN degree) to take a CST course (if, say, your organization provides tuition reimbursement), in order to be more appealing as someone to scrub? I'm a periop nurse right now (circulator) and my manager knows I would ...

5. OR nurses: wearing scrub machine scrubs home?

   Axmann, RN, BSN, NREMT-B replied to Axmann, RN, BSN, NREMT-B's topic in General Nursing

   Would I get made fun of for doing this?

6. OR nurses: wearing scrub machine scrubs home?

   Axmann, RN, BSN, NREMT-B replied to Axmann, RN, BSN, NREMT-B's topic in General Nursing

   What about wearing similar (or slightly different) color scrubs instead of street clothes to work? Work scrubs have a color-coded band on them so a plain set of Ciel blue scrubs without the band aren't interchangeable for our work scrubs (you would k...

7. OR nurses: wearing scrub machine scrubs home?

   Axmann, RN, BSN, NREMT-B posted a topic in General Nursing

   I work in a facility where we get 2 scrub credits and get scrubs from a machine. Deposit your scrubs, get your credit back. Does anyone wear their scrubs from the day home and then back to work and change into a new set once you get to work, thus mak...

8. Manager out to get me. Even shift coord. agrees.

   Axmann, RN, BSN, NREMT-B posted a topic in General Nursing

   I have been an RN for a year on a med-surg unit, and in that year, somehow I have managed to sick the venom of my clinical manager upon myself. I love my job. I *always* try to do the right thing and I genuinely love and care about my patients. I hav...

9. IV Push dilution methods... Is my method wrong?

   Axmann, RN, BSN, NREMT-B posted a topic in Medications

   So, after perusing several methods of diluting IV push medications, I decided on the following method. In this example, I'll use promethazine (Phenergan), 25 mg/1 mL with an order of 25 mg. Here is the method I like to use: 1. Use a 1- or 3-mL syring...

10. Extremely confused about protocols and orders sets!

    Axmann, RN, BSN, NREMT-B posted a topic in General Nursing

    I just started as an RN on a med-surg floor at a major metropolitan Level I trauma center. I am so extremely confused about protocols and order sets. What can be implemented without a doctor signature and what cannot? A good example is a heparin flus...

11. New nurse here. Questions about PRN intervals and "HIPAA spooking"

    Axmann, RN, BSN, NREMT-B posted a topic in General Nursing

    In your hospital, are PRN med intervals absolute, (e.g. cannot be given even a minute early), and if they are not, is it different for PRN narcotic meds? I'm a bit confused about policy vs. reality and as a new nurse, I'm in "nursing school" mode con...

12. Can nurses do more for patients coming from ECFs with stage III pressure ulcers?

    Axmann, RN, BSN, NREMT-B posted a topic in General Nursing

    We see it time and time again. Patient is admitted from an ECF with a stage III sacral ulcer, and likely additional ulcers on the heel. What can nurses do to advocate for these patients aside from just caring for them in the hospital and sending them...

13. Med-surg or OR? Need advice ASAP.

    Axmann, RN, BSN, NREMT-B replied to Axmann, RN, BSN, NREMT-B's topic in General Nursing

    Would it be extremely bad form to break a two-year commitment.

14. Med-surg or OR? Need advice ASAP.

    Axmann, RN, BSN, NREMT-B replied to Axmann, RN, BSN, NREMT-B's topic in General Nursing

    I have not. Another issue is that I would like to go to the ED eventually and I'm not sure whether OR experience would be transferrable to the ER. Would reneging on accepting the job offer really cause the hospital to never look at my applications a...

15. Med-surg or OR? Need advice ASAP.

    Axmann, RN, BSN, NREMT-B replied to Axmann, RN, BSN, NREMT-B's topic in General Nursing

    [accidental doublepost]