Stacey30

Stacey30 specializes in Operating room, Pediatrics.

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1. You know you're an OR nurse if...

   Stacey30 replied to Rose_Queen's topic in Operating Room

   You know you're an OR nurse if... ...you open your child's package of string cheese and let them pull it out as if it's suture. ...your hands are spotted with Dermabond to cover little cuts and painful hang-nails. ...students/observers wrinkle their ...

2. How do I become a perioperative nurse?

   Stacey30 replied to dhickey5's topic in Operating Room

   OR nursing isn't normally taught in nursing school because they want you to learn the basic skills necessary to become a nurse. Sometimes students get to follow their patient down to the OR if they happened to have a procedure scheduled during their ...

3. Curious About Pediatric Surgery

   Stacey30 replied to lindsey.denning's topic in Operating Room

   I work at a level 1 pediatric hospital OR (first nursing job out of school) and I love it. jdsmom pretty much covered the jist of the procedures we see except we also have opthalmology in my OR so we do lots of eye exams under anesthesia, eye muscle ...

4. circulating nurse = "go-fer" with no use for "real" nursing skills?

   Stacey30 replied to RunnerRN2015's topic in Operating Room

   I can understand why you may feel this way, because as a new OR nurse you do run your *** off at first. But pay attention to the experienced OR nurses around you and you should see that they're not running around nearly as much as you are. This is be...

5. How many of you both circulate AND scrub?

   Stacey30 replied to Nolander's topic in Operating Room

   I'm a new OR nurse on orientation and I'm learning to scrub and circulate (1 week scrubbing and 3 weeks circulating through each service). We are taught to scrub so that we can do so on days when techs are shorthanded, or in case we need to give lunc...

6. Other nurse moms how am i going to do this? My heart hurts!

   Stacey30 replied to mommynurse25's topic in Career Support

   If this is your first RN job in the hospital then it's unlikely that they'll let you do weekends only at first, as you lack the critical thinking skills necessary for the job. Traumas are most likely to occur on off-shifts, so it can be difficult for...

7. ESU Pad Documentation - What is your policy?

   Stacey30 replied to lymac10's topic in Operating Room

   We do this as well. We document lot #'s in the event of a recall.

8. Alexander's Care of the Patient in Surgery 13th or 14th edition?

   Stacey30 replied to silkysteph's topic in Operating Room

   I have the 14th edition and this is what the Preface says: "The fourteenth edition of Alexander's Care of the Patient in Surgery has been updated to reflect new concepts in perioperative nursing practice and increased sophistication and complexity of...

9. Nursing Interview Questions (Part 2)

   Stacey30 replied to TheCommuter's topic in Job Hunt

   Sure do, I interviewed twice for the OR position that I applied for (which I got, by the way!) and both times I was asked this question! So I used two different examples. Example 1: I completed my preceptorship on a GI/Gynie surgical oncology unit an...

10. New to the operating room!

    Stacey30 replied to born2circulateRN's topic in Operating Room

    Oh yeah, hoods too :) also a lot of our attendings have accents so you have to get used to that as well!

11. New to the operating room!

    Stacey30 replied to born2circulateRN's topic in Operating Room

    I had to buy Alexander's Care of the Patient in Surgery as part of my Periop 101 class. I have not yet picked up the pocket guide yet but plan on it. Right now my biggest challenge is trying to develop my "OR ear." There's a lot of white noise in the...

12. New to the operating room!

    Stacey30 replied to born2circulateRN's topic in Operating Room

    Congrats! I'm 3 weeks into an OR fellowship program (it's basically Periop 101) and am loving it. There is SO much to learn though! Get yourself some spiral-bound note cards so that you can take notes as you go (especially since surgeons might like t...

13. OR Internships, Residencies, Fellowships?

    Stacey30 replied to ijuanabhappy's topic in Operating Room

    I just began an OR nurse fellowship program for UPMC in Pittsburgh. It's 5 weeks long and takes you through Periop 101 and counts toward your 6 months of orientation. I have both new grads (must be licensed already) as well as seasoned RNs in my clas...

14. Dilemma - what to do...

    Stacey30 replied to Stacey30's topic in Ob/Gyn

    You both made some good points. I had orientation today and I explained my situation to the HR lady. She said it wouldn't be an issue if I get offered L&D and accept it since obviously it's a permanent position whereas the fellowship is considere...

15. Dilemma - what to do...

    Stacey30 posted a topic in Ob/Gyn

    First of all, I'm thankful to even have this as a dilemma since it's so hard for new grads to even find a job, let alone a specialty. I recently interviewed for two awesome specialties. One was for an OR fellowship for new grads (totally awesome oppo...