tachy

tachy specializes in CVICU.

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1. Do you use smoke filtering bovie pencils?

   tachy posted a topic in Operating Room

   With all the literature out there supporting how toxic bovine smoke is I would love to see these implemented in our OR. Certain surgeons and staff are not the best at using smoke evacuators, and I...

2. For on the job injury, why can't I be treated at the hospital?

   tachy posted a topic in General Nursing

   Is this a legal issue of some sort? When employees are injured on the job at the hospital I work for, we are made to go to another unassociated health clinic. Is this standard practice?

3. What is going on in this OR?

   tachy replied to fracturenurse's topic in Operating Room

   Wow, just wow! I am speechless! I'd be on the AORN website printing material out like mad and handing it to your manager. The circumstances you describe are not only ignorant but downright

4. velcro safety straps - ugh!

   tachy replied to tachy's topic in Operating Room

   Oooh disposable everything would be awesome! Yeah, we still use laundered sheets and blankets as well. Our only disposables are the sets for our open Jackson frames (chest pads, face pad, etc). I'll...

5. OR Sharps safest practice

   tachy replied to NurseNicky's topic in Operating Room

   Our red boxes have the best of both worlds - once side is the foam for suture and the other is magnetic for blades. I would think it best to have both

6. velcro safety straps - ugh!

   tachy posted a topic in Operating Room

   My OR is currently split - half of the rooms have the heavy duty rubber safety straps with the seatbelt like metal clasp (easy to clean and disinfect) but the other rooms have the straps that are the...

7. Where to go from Circulating?

   tachy replied to Jgruber215's topic in Operating Room

   Age is really just a number. As long as you stay active and take care of your body there is no reason to believe you should not be able to do anything you do now. I know 50 year olds who are...

8. Would You Marry or Date a Patient or An Ex-Patient of Yours

   tachy replied to Yiggs's topic in General Nursing

   Working in CV-ICU this is completely foreign to me as the question may as well have read, "Would you get together with someone who is old and sick?" LOL! The only situation I can ever see this...

9. orientation for fresh hearts

   tachy replied to tachy's topic in CCU, Coronary, Cardiac

   Thanks for the replies. I'm trying my best to try and be there when cases are scheduled - I think it's just slower because it's summer, too. They will be giving us fresh hearts off of orientation,...

10. Thoughts about Organ Donors?

    tachy replied to havehope's topic in General Nursing

    I'm a registered organ donor, and used to work for the organ donation agency in my state. My mother was an organ donor, she suffered a sudden and tragic brain death at a young age. When we were...

11. How is CVICU different from ICU?

    tachy replied to BonewaxRN's topic in CCU, Coronary, Cardiac

    My hospital has both a CVICU and a CCU. Basically the CVICU takes care of the surgical patients (CABG's, valves, etc) and the CCU takes care of the medical patients (ends stage CHF, acute MI etc). If...

12. orientation for fresh hearts

    tachy posted a topic in CCU, Coronary, Cardiac

    Hi All~ I recently started a new position in CVICU. (Background is 3 years of cardiac step-down). My oreintation is 3 months long, starts with taking care of stable post-op patients that may still...