GarretSTL

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1. Rest Pay

   GarretSTL posted a topic in Operating Room

   I would like to survey O.R. nurses from all around the country and see who does and does not get "rest pay" or compensation for working overnight on call. For example, the first O.R. I worked in offered a guaranteed 8 hours away from the hospital. Th...

2. Changing Gowns Without Re-Scrubbing

   GarretSTL posted a topic in Operating Room

   I work in Cardio-Thoracic and noticed something the other day that I had never paid attention to before. After our RNFA harvests the conduit or the surgeon harvests the Mammary artery, they feel that they are "contaminated" and thus they change their...

3. Just started Periop program and not sure it's for me

   GarretSTL replied to Lovenursing89's topic in Operating Room

   I was told during my O.R. internship to go to the floor first and I'm very glad that I did. It helped me solidify my nursing and interpersonal skills, as well as learn a lot of anatomy, medications, etc. However, in your situation, it does become mor...

4. Career Transition Question

   GarretSTL posted a topic in Operating Room

   I am a 25 year old Cardio-Thoracic OR nurse right now and have been at my hospital since August 2011. We are a very busy program for our area, doing about 700 heart cases and 400 thoracic cases a year. However, other than an internship and a brief tr...

5. Cardio-Thoracic Differential Pay

   GarretSTL posted a topic in Operating Room

   I work on the Cardio-Thoracic OR team and we are separate from the "main" OR in that we do not do anything except heart and lung surgery. However, our base pay is the same as everyone else. There have been grumblings lately about trying to get a dif...

6. First job anxiety, can you give me tips and the right mindset to overcome it?

   GarretSTL replied to willowRN's topic in General Nursing

   It's normal to be nervous, as its a really big step in life! My biggest suggestion is that you use the knowledge and skills you have from school, but to also ask a lot of questions and use your fellow staff members. When I first started I made sure...