kristen38

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1. formalin in the Operating Room

   kristen38 replied to cwazycwissyRN's topic in Operating Room

   We used to for TA, but the container dropped one day and now we don't keep formalin in the room in large quantities. We do keep the small specimen collection containers that are pre-filled with it. We filled the larger containers at a specimen statio...

2. Bovid smoke and plume

   kristen38 replied to Adirondacknurse's topic in Operating Room

   Sorry for a lot of the typos, I was using my ipod and did cut and paste. Kristen38

3. Bovid smoke and plume

   kristen38 replied to Adirondacknurse's topic in Operating Room

   I know it's a little long but it is a study about plume smoke Smoke from tissue burning tools like lasers can be toxic to surgical team By: The Canadian Press March 18, 2009 TORONTO—The surgeon touches an area of exposed flesh with a cauterizing tool...

4. Psych to OR

   kristen38 replied to trixiern9's topic in Operating Room

   Hi, I was a psych nurse for four years and moved to the OR this past January. I had to take a course before I could apply so that helped me with the review of med-surg and IV, and other skills that I lost while in psych. The course helped me a lot. ...

5. Looking for my favorite scrub hat...know of any sellers?

   kristen38 replied to Mr. & Mrs. RN's topic in Operating Room

   From ebay, http://stores.ebay.ca/michellemariesaccessories The person who makes them has many different styles and will customize them. I asked for a few alterations and she accomodated them and still go the hats to me within in a week.

6. Sore Shoulders

   kristen38 replied to kristen38's topic in Operating Room

   I am not wearing lead. I still have to do orientation in Ortho, Vascular, Neuro and the other services that use lead a lot. I am going to try to build up some strenght in my shoulders (I am a member of a gym, I just have to make the effort to go and...

7. Opinion on Humber College RN program

   kristen38 replied to KateWindsor's topic in CA Programs

   Hi, Congratulations. Humber/UNB has the best program everI graduated from the Humber/UNB RN program in 2007 and I thought it was great. I got the placement that I wanted and (I'm not sure about other nursing programs) we did extra time in clinical i...

8. Sore Shoulders

   kristen38 posted a topic in Operating Room

   Hi All, I have been in the OR for five weeks now and I am really enjoying it. One thing that I have been having problems with is when I am scrubbed I find that my shoulders hurt a lot. Does anyone else experience this and if so what do they do about ...

9. What do you do in the nursing station in your down time?

   kristen38 replied to kiwipsychnurse's topic in Psychiatric

   I work on a busy acute care psychiatric unit, and I am often busy, nights can be busy as well. However, I find that I still have lots of downtime and during that time I like to play on my ipod touch. There are so many mindless games that I can downl...

10. OR gowns

    kristen38 posted a topic in Operating Room

    I am new to the OR and the hospital that I am at gives the scrub nurse the option of wearing paper or cloth gowns. I have been using the cloth gowns and find that I get really warm while scrubed. I was wondering if the paper disposable gowns are cool...

11. CRNE prep guide

    kristen38 replied to liton's topic in CRNE

    I found that when studying patho, and treatments for illness that the NCLEX book was laid out better then Mosby and easier for me to use. It's all the same stuff regardless of where you live. I made sure to study the parts in Mosby that were specific...

12. CRNE prep guide

    kristen38 replied to liton's topic in CRNE

    I did the CRNE last June and found that the Mosby book was terrible. I only used it for the parts that were specifically Canadian, and the long tests at the end of the chapters. Otherwise I used the NCLEX guide. I liked it better because I was able t...

13. Am I selling myself short???

    kristen38 replied to edisonnurse's topic in Psychiatric

    I also just graduated and passed the CRNE (Canadian version of NCLEX) and thought about doing something other than psych, espcially after doing my consolidation on a psych unit. In the first month I had to do a couple of catherters, had a pateint so...

14. How do you inventory pt valuables?

    kristen38 replied to Piper12's topic in Psychiatric

    On my unit each patient has a locker in their room that is locked with a pad lock. When the patient arrives in the unit (most often already in hopsital PJ's) all of there stuff goes into the locker. They can keep their toothbrush and stuff (razors ar...

15. Scrubs or street clothes

    kristen38 replied to Boston64's topic in Psychiatric

    I work on an acute unit, and we were street clothes. During the week it is business wear, but fortunatly on weekends and nights we can wear jeans and sweatshirts. It's so nice to just wake up and throw on a pair of jeans. I have seen a couple of pat...