TraumaORnurse

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1. Moving to Mississippi

   TraumaORnurse posted a topic in Mississippi

   Hello. I am potentially moving to the Meridian, MS area this summer and am beginning to look at hospitals and jobs in the area and so far I'm not finding much. I have almost 12 years experience, 3.5 in the circulating in the OR specializing in trauma...

2. Who Runs Your Operating Room?

   TraumaORnurse replied to msn10's topic in Operating Room

   Charge nurses runs ours..m If there are issues we call our Trauma Anesthesiologist to triage...(s)he has to be the bad guy sometimes, but it's more helpful for doctor to doctor discuss when bumping a case.

3. Transplant Team in your OR?

   TraumaORnurse replied to TXPediORRN's topic in Operating Room

   We do kidney and pancreas transplants and do not have a dedicated team...we average 5 kidney transplants a month, pancreas is pretty rare and it's always in combination with a kidney. During the day the surgeons have their favorite GU scrubs that the...

4. Nursing in Indianapolis

   TraumaORnurse replied to rbc2093's topic in Indiana

   IU Health laid off a large number of nurses. The majority of people St Vincent laid off we're not direct patient care staff, it was mainly unit clerks and cutting/combining management and directors. There are currently have a large number of open pos...

5. STAT C-Section, Local anesthesia only.

   TraumaORnurse replied to AngelaLyons's topic in Operating Room

   I'm shocked that any hospital with OB services isn't required to have Anesthesia in house 24/7 for situations like this! Sounds like the hospital needs to investigate this.

6. Charting Bathing/Grooming/Dressing for FIMS

   TraumaORnurse replied to Cehurstrn's topic in Rehabilitation

   When I was a rehab manager, I had all of my techs go through basic FIMs training so they understood what the nurses were looking for. They then were able to tell the nurse in better detail what the patient was able to do and where and how much assist...

7. Are there 10 hr shifts in Nursing??

   TraumaORnurse replied to firstinfamily's topic in Career Support

   We have 10 hr shifts in the OR.

8. Preventable deaths while incarcerated.

   TraumaORnurse replied to toomuchbaloney's topic in Correctional

   Sadly I'm not surprised. I recently had 2 young, otherwise healthy prisoners nearly die due to poor care while in prison. The first was in a fight & his head rammed into a cement wall. Per records, he immediately complained of a headache with nau...

9. When A Nurse Needs A Doctor.....

   TraumaORnurse replied to nurse2211's topic in Relations

   As an OR nurse, needing surgery means having staff you work with routinely, which I actually felt to be more comforting. I knew my surgeon was phenomenal because I had worked with him so many times and trusted him completely. And, I hand picked my An...

10. How is the job market in Indiana?

    TraumaORnurse replied to ccr0011's topic in Indiana

    Most hospitals won't even look at your application until you pass your boards and are licensed in the state. You cannot work or even do orientation in a hospital until you have it. So they don't want to waste time interviewing applicants who can't st...

11. Indianapolis RN jobs?

    TraumaORnurse replied to pinkbob4's topic in Indiana

    The larger Indy hospitals are still trying to recover from the changes last year that led to layoffs. It is starting to pick back up, however, as you said patients aren't staying in the hospital as long and reimbursement sucks causing hospitals to wo...

12. Scrub caps

    TraumaORnurse replied to jessterns's topic in Operating Room

    My hospital allows us to wear them but we are required to wear a bouffant cap over. They are now enforcing this with the surgeons, which hadn't been done before.

13. How to get into Periop Nursing

    TraumaORnurse replied to rnkv's topic in Operating Room

    Most large hospital systems offer peri-op training programs, basically paid on the job training. Mine was 6 months, during which time we did the AORN peri-op 101 program and learned the ins and outs of surgery before spending the last 4-ish months in...

14. RN refresher

    TraumaORnurse replied to kokomoGirl's topic in Indiana

    Community Health used to offer one. Not sure if they still do but worth checking in to if you're still looking.

15. Best Burn Centers in US??

    TraumaORnurse replied to guest454229's topic in Burn

    Richard M. Fairbanks Burn Center at Eskenazi Health in Indianapolis, IN is a phenomenal burn center. Eskenazi (formerly Wishard) is a Level 1 Trauma Center and is (I believe) Indiana's only adult burn center. Riley Hospital for Children, Indiana's on...