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sop832

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  1. cussed out in the OR

    He is crazy as a ****house rat, although I think his substance of abuse is bacon. He has been written up 4 x in the past 3 weeks ( yes I am one of the four). I have never gotten any kind of feedback any time that I have written any surgeon up, so I d...
  2. I just wanna say....

    I would like to smack the nurse that first told a surgeon that we keep preference cards!
  3. cussed out in the OR

    Sigh. I know, you're right, I just have to stiffen my backbone and do it. Thank you.
  4. Does the PVT Work for Elections????

    When I woke my DH on Wednesday morning with the words "Honey, I have some bad news", he said"Oh, no, do we have to move?"
  5. cussed out in the OR

    A surgeon ripped me apart today in front another nurse, a CRNA and a PA. I fully plan to write him up, but now I'm not sure that I should submit it or just keep it in my files at home since I received an apology which I felt was sincere after the ca...
  6. Only Crusty Old Bats will remember..

    Yes, very often it did work for that shift, but it really p*****d off the oncoming shift, so we used it judiciously.
  7. Agism in nursing?

    It took me a while to learn to accept my physical limitations, and to say, "thank you" when someone younger/stronger offers to lift a patient or a heavy basket of instruments or a traction setup ( I work in an OR). I resented it at first, but I decid...
  8. Only Crusty Old Bats will remember..

    I actually love the smell of benzoin, but not in the amount that you describe! We used benzoin on the skin to both toughen the skin and hold the adhesive tape on the dressing. We changed dressings once a day, and if the skin wasn't protected by the b...
  9. Only Crusty Old Bats will remember..

    I work in the OR now, but worked on a post-op/stepdown ICU floor from 1976-1979. All elective surgery patients were admitted at least a day ahead of surgery, sometimes a couple of days if tests were needed. One OLD on-gym had quite a setup going for ...
  10. Only Crusty Old Bats will remember..

    We tied a knot in the bottom sheet to prevent the patient from dying on our shift!
  11. What is with this angry nurse?

    Pick of the litter
  12. OR Blues(long)

    Hmmm.. Why is an anesthesiologist criticizing your prep? And how is that telling the physician what to do? If you're on orientation, where was your preceptor? It sounds to me like you're well out of there.
  13. Switch from the floor to the OR?

    You DO have patient interaction, and it is the perfect amount for me. You talk to the patient in prep area and when they enter the OR. Then the anesthesia provider takes over and the general anesthetic or sedation takes effect. My "personality tests"...
  14. News Flash Everybody Farts!

    One of the first guys I dated after college grew up in a household with 4 boys, only girl in the house was his mom. He honestly believed that girls did not fart! He knew that we pooped, but thought that we never farted. He was in for quite a shock wh...
  15. As I read over what I wrote, I don't mean to imply that you did anything wrong, you and the scrub nurse both confirmed the settings, he just wasn't listening.