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1. When can a resident be the 1st operating doctor?

   akor replied to akor's topic in Operating Room

   Thanks a million...

2. When can a resident be the 1st operating doctor?

   akor replied to akor's topic in Operating Room

   Thanks...you anwered my question. That's right,you call them R1 and so on( over here, we call them "specializzando"...I remember the attending surgeon always being there for the case except for the emergencies in the evening where the eldest resident...

3. When can a resident be the 1st operating doctor?

   akor posted a topic in Operating Room

   I work in Italy and a surgical resident doc had asked me this question. I used to work at a University hospital in the states a long time ago and don't remember. What year can they be the first operator? Do they have specific duties year by year? T...

4. A Good First Impression

   akor replied to EvaJ's topic in Operating Room

   About 20 yrs ago I started my first nursing job in the OR at a large university hospital. It was an orientation of two yrs with 12 specialty areas. I left nursing for 12 yrs and have returned and am back in the operating room in a foreign country a...

5. Call survival tips for RN new to the OR

   akor replied to USA987's topic in Operating Room

   I hear ya! I am three years now in a busy Level 1 trauma center and was scared to take call. It is very nerve racking but with perseverance and time, you get better. I worked in a busy OR from 88 to 93, then took off 12 years. I entered back into nur...

6. Depression amoung OR nurses after organ harvesting

   akor replied to redding6's topic in Operating Room

   At my facility, we recently met with the organ procurement manager to go over the new paper work to be filled out and faxed back to them at the end of the procedure. However, a nurse brought up the difficulty of being in the room cleaning the cor...

7. allowing parents in OR?

   akor replied to penguin2's topic in Operating Room

   Over here in Florence Italy, they have a great childrens' hospital. I work in the OR but when my son had to have an inguinal hernia operation, I got whoosy watching him go to sleep. I am glad though that i was able to be there with him. It is polic...

8. lighting

   akor replied to akor's topic in Operating Room

   Thanks for the replies. At first arrival, they had these flimsy plastic stools to stand on to see the surgery and to position the light. However, if you fell off and hurt yourself which i heard had happened, you are not covered for your injury becaus...

9. waking anesthestized patient

   akor posted a topic in Operating Room

   Hi....have another question.....have you ever seen the decision to wake up a patient before the surgery started to do an emergency case? I have seen them wake up an anesthetized scheduled cardiac patient to do an aortic dissection emergency case. tha...

10. lighting

    akor posted a topic in Operating Room

    Hi everyone, I wanted to know of all you OR nurses who are reading this who have docs demanding that the circulating nurse position the overhead lighting. I worked in the states 20 years ago and don't ever remember doctors asking or YELLING at times...

11. enterococco fecalis infection

    akor posted a topic in Disease

    I work in cardiac surgery. We operated on a patient last July for double valve replacements (mitral and aortic). He recovered well, went back to work and then in December came down with flu like symptoms. It wasn't until a week ago he was recove...

12. syndrome tachycardia bradycardia

    akor replied to akor's topic in Cardiac

    Thanks for the reply. It seems in this case as well that it involves mitral valve prolapse with a thickening of one of the mitral valve cusp even though the doc's say that that shouldn't cause the syndrome.... thanks a bunch....anyone else with kno...

13. syndrome tachycardia bradycardia

    akor posted a topic in Cardiac

    Hi everyone, I am curious if any of you have seen the Syndrome Tachycardia Bradycardia in young patients? When I say young I mean around their 40's. If you have, was there a cause or was it idiopathic? Thanks, AKOR:rolleyes:

14. New nurse in OR trying to find her place

    akor replied to Nellie Nurse's topic in Operating Room

    I am back in the o.r. after 12 years and I am i na foreign country ....sometimes I have to ask the scrub nurse to repeat what she wants....and when I get really good I will know what she wants....it's a mtter of patience and learning.....I have ...

15. My english is horrible !!!

    akor replied to earthlovers123's topic in General Nursing

    I am an American living in a foreign country and I get made fun of for how I speak their language....It takes much more energy to stick wit hnursing in a foreign language. You have to be very persistent and take the advice of one colleague by ...