preciousmofo replied to mikethern's topic in Relations
The OR becomes this sort of giant dysfunctional family with the surgeon being the yelling, abusive father of sorts. The beautiful, utopian "I respect all my coworkers, and enjoy working with them" facade disintegrates when the patient drifts off......
Our policy is ICU patients do not come to holding. And definetly NOT on a propofol drip. The ICU is directly across from OR, so it's convenient. We're technically not supposed to take any drips at all, but I find that hard to really believe, becau...
preciousmofo replied to nurseMargo's topic in Career Support
Med/Surg definitely. I worked my first 3 years on Med/Surg Tele, and I learned so much that provided a sturdy base of knowledge. You get so many different issues and illnesses, like post-ops, chronic and acute illness, respiratory, stable cardiac.....
preciousmofo replied to mar326's topic in Geriatric
We used to assign a nurse on every shift to check all the MAR's before anyone left, so if something wasn't initialed, he/she would ask the person while they were still there and that nurse could sign it, and if it was a med that was missed then they ...
preciousmofo replied to WSU_Ally_RN's topic in General Nursing
The only shift job I've had was med/surg and we taped. I liked the taping and listening because report went faster than verbals. With verbals you simply must talk about the patients' issues and there families and how much they annoy you, with tape...
preciousmofo replied to ogrern2002's topic in Infusion
I'm not a fan of the lidocaine for IV sticks. I work in a pre-op area and I start IV's all day and I've never used it prior even though we have a standing order for it's use. And it tends to make veins disappear in my past experience. Time consumi...
Hello all! This is my first post, i just joined today!! I'm excited. lol anyway, i've only lived in phoenix for about 3 months and i looked into several hospitals. St. Luke's i don't recommend because it seems there are ALOT of pay/administration/m...