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  1. Verbal abuse in the OR

    Yeah I've had enough too, enough of the egos, lack of communication, expectations that OR nurses can be used in any part of a hospital, yet no other nurses are expected to come to the OR and scrub. I am sick and tired of lack of support from my manag...
  2. age of an OR nurse?

    Unlike most of my OR colleagues here I would caution you to think carefully. Having been in the OR for 25 years now I am at a point of giving it up. I dont think the job has changed at all, not a bit and I still love the job as much as I did when I f...
  3. How often are you called in during on call?

    Rarely get home, so dont need to come back in, am there already
  4. prison guards in the OR

    Yeah, same as Shodobe here. The guard stays until the patient is asleep. Handcuffs , leg irons off, guard leaves, stays at desk. Patient extubated, guard back at side leg irons on, depending on surgery, or handcuffs on. We never have the guard in the...
  5. bar coded sponge counting

    Yeah I saw this one too. My feelings are mixed as I believe if your going to bar code sponges why not other items?. I know a sponge is more likely to be lost then an instrument say, however, I feel in my heart its kind of a concept that will never ta...
  6. OR nurses & students

    RNin2007, what an awful experience for you. May I ask why dident you go to your tutor and complain, I feel you would have been entitled to. Personally I adore having students as they keep me on my toes all the time. I usually first interview my stude...
  7. Advice For Nurse New To The Or

    I have a lot of friends who wear TEDS, however I went to an orthopod some years ago and had inserts made for my shoes which have really made a huge difference to me. I can wear the cheapest runners but with the inserts its like walking on air all day...
  8. call pay

    In London there are public, private hospitals, clinics, ect. You have to shop around for the best deal, just as you would do for anything else in life really I guess. Just because the internet tells you one thing dosent mean its the law everywhere. A...
  9. call pay

    I cannot believe you all work so hard for so little money. Do you all belong to unions? You should get together and demand your worth. For holding the pager I expect $30 an hour. For working an hour on call I expect on a week night $ 85 an hour. I w...
  10. A question for OR nurses

    Yeah, like most of the other postings we do the check x-ray in the unit. Our guys feel that as we hook the line up to the monitor immediately they can tell by the reading where the line is. However they do the x-ray afterwards. If we put in a line fo...
  11. criminal record check

    Passing this all on to James, thanks again
  12. Words of advice please :)

    Well heres my own contribution to this posting for what its worth. I have found that the new grads who spend 12 months gaining management on the units before coming to the OR are far far better then the straight from school nurses. I believe this is ...
  13. criminal record check

    Thank you both of you, I passed the info onto James and he's quite worried as he had hoped to go to ottowa soon. He dosent think he can start the whole thing in London but what can he do. And why do canadian hospitals recruit foreigners if they cant ...
  14. criminal record check

    [color=sandybrown] my friend james recently passed his canadian exam. we both work in london, u.k. james has gotten his registration form but its asking for a criminal record check. if he waits until he gets to ottawa to do it can he work in the mea...
  15. Are Techs And RN's equal in managements eyes?

    I guess I am biased on the topic or RN's and techs but this is a classical example of someone not trained to do a job being allowed to go outside their expertise and now wanting the same pay and recognition as the RN. The first poster is a competent ...