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  1. CNOR Exam help please!!!!

    I took the CNOR exam in 12/07 and the exam wasn't bad at all. You definitely need to read the AORN Standards, Alexander's, and Berry and Kohn's texts. I printed the Study Guide from the CNOR Certification website for reference, and I took a review c...
  2. da vinci robot poll

    Positioning for a prostatectomy is definitely a team effort. We usually use 5 pieces of eggcrate foam for each case. We completely wrap each arm with foam from axilla to 2-3 inches pass the fingers and secure it with 3 pieces of tape. We put a sma...
  3. da vinci robot poll

    We have the robot for 3+ years and we use it everyday in either urology or thoracic service. We average about 10 cases a week. In Urology, we do mostly prostatectomies and some pyeloplasties. Our 1st robotic prostatectomy took over 8 hours, now we ...
  4. Robotic assisted surgery

    We do have a designated staff for the robot because there's a lot of technical things to learn. The staff needs to know where to place the console, robot and the monitors depending on what procedure you are doing. Our OR has 13 rooms and we have 6 ...
  5. To Do, Or Not To Do???

    I considered traveling nursing a while back and learned a lot from nurses who are traveling from this website: http://forums.delphiforums.com/travelnurses Good luck!
  6. Robotic assisted surgery

    I've been doing robotic cases for 1 1/2 years and it's been a great learning experience. We mainly do urology and thoracic cases with the robot and it's a lot to set up for those cases. I do mostly thoracic cases and if there was a robotic prostate...
  7. Anyone pregnant or have been preg in OR?

    I've been in the OR for 5 years and had 2 boys since then. Like MissJoRN said, OR is physically demanding, but it certainly is doable. I am not trying to scare you, but I have only known a handful of nurses who carried their pregnancies to their du...
  8. Surgeon's Preference Card

    Where I work, our preference card is our charge sheet, and the preference list comes up with each case cart. It makes it easy for those who pick for the case and those who are in the room to know exactly what each surgeon wants. We also have a desi...
  9. I'm working in a for-profit hospital and we are now saving the "octopus" and "starfish" after each off-pump CABG to be sent back to the manufacturer to be re-sterilized. How common is this practice? Personally, I think it's disgusting. The devices...
  10. Intraoperative nursing and pregnancy

    I was pregnant 2 years ago with my son and I didn't have problems working in the OR. My manager was accommodating in putting me in non-flouro rooms and I was assigned 1st or 2nd lunch instead of 3rd or 4th lunch. The tough part for me during my pre...
  11. WOW! That's a high number of nurses witnessing wrong site surgery. At my hospital, we have to do a "time out" before each surgery. Usually the surgeon states the patient's name, type of procedure and site of procedure prior to incision. I have he...
  12. Weekend/Night OR crews...

    I work in a level 1 trauma hospital and we have 2 RNs and 2 techs scheduled to work every night. On top of that, we usually have 2 RNs, 2 techs, 1 heart and 1 liver on call every night.
  13. Exam Preparation

    The study guideline is on the certification website. I posted the link for you. http://www.certboard.org/cnor/cert/study_group_curr.htm
  14. Bouffant Surgical Caps

    Try http:http://www.scrubcaps4u.com There's a wide selection of choices and the prices are reasonable. This seller makes the scrub hats for the show "Scrubs" and she posted a few pictures of the cast on the website. The seller accepts PayPal and w...
  15. Heart Call Pay

    I work in a teaching hospital in Philly, and the heart nurses/scrubs get paid $2 and hour for call and 1 1/2 when they get called in. We have enough heart RNs and scrubs that they take call about once every 10 days. However, when they are on call o...