jackandjill123

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1. Losing and Finding Identity in High-Stakes Surgery

   jackandjill123 replied to ctsurgeryscrubrn's topic in General Nursing

   @Sirl - can we get her to write more great content!?!? What a talent.

2. Losing and Finding Identity in High-Stakes Surgery

   jackandjill123 replied to ctsurgeryscrubrn's topic in General Nursing

   Wow wow wow! This girl is a phenomenal writer. Her message is clear and her willingness to expose her vulnerabilities brings humanity to our tough profession. I love her writing style and her two articles thus far reach far beyond O.R. Nursing. Any c...

3. Engagement Rings in the O.R.

   jackandjill123 posted a topic in Operating Room

   I recently got engaged. Looking for any recommendations on how to keep my devotion to my fiancee close to me, but still be able to plunge my hands into two sets of gloves (6's over 6.5's LOL). Does anybody wear it on a chain or something else or just...

4. Interested in CVOR nursing

   jackandjill123 replied to nocturnallife's topic in Operating Room

   Hi - I took it upon myself to make a guide that really tries to outline what it takes to get into CVOR and more importantly, what it takes to thrive. I have been so disappointed when very talented OR nurses shun the opportunity to scrub in the CVOR ...

5. Help getting in OR

   jackandjill123 replied to inspired78's topic in Operating Room

   Hey there - my friend will be opening her state-of-the-art plastic & reconstructive surgery practice in Dallas in September. She is looking for a scrub nurse who she can train from the ground up and eventually have her become her first assist fo...

6. Shock Trauma OR Offer!

   jackandjill123 posted a topic in Operating Room

   This is all coming so fast. I was recently offered a chance to scrub on our open-heart team full-time. I had interviewed at Shock Trauma at UMMC a while back, but never heard back, so figured (as most would) that they had moved on to other candidat...

7. Surgical Missions (?)

   jackandjill123 posted a topic in Operating Room

   Hello all - I was recently asked to participate as a scrub nurse on a Cardiothoracic Surgery mission in Tripoli, Libya. I've always dreamed of doing something like this, but i certainly have pause. I've heard much about other types of surgical miss...

8. Futile ressusitation

   jackandjill123 replied to amzyRN's topic in Emergency

   Hi amzyRN - I think this is an excellent discussion topic and one that we all seem to go through all-too-often. I just finished my perioperative nursing residency and spend 3-4 weeks at an L1 trauma center, where we, as O.R. nurse were often called ...

9. Perioperative new grad residencies

   jackandjill123 replied to Kellywolfe89's topic in Operating Room

   Hi there - always happy to lend the insights I've picked up along the way of becoming a perioperative scrub nurse. I am so inspired by your dedication to further your education. I hope to follow. The lead FA on our hire-risk cardiac team is a DNP,...

10. Circulating vs. Scrubbing

    jackandjill123 replied to NursieB's topic in Operating Room

    I think some of this depends on specialty. For example, my institution only has RNs as scrubs on the cardiac, open vascular, and complex neuro cases. Not sure that it was ever written as rule, but CSTs don't scrub those cases here. I just scrubbed ...

11. OR nurses, was it your calling?

    jackandjill123 replied to danceluver's topic in Operating Room

    I love O.R. nursing - about 3 years in now (new grad BSN that did a perioperative residency). I was groomed early on to scrub our high-acuity cases (CT, Trauma (open - mostly damage control ex-laps), open vascular, etc.). I think for me, it was a c...

12. Glasses with masks

    jackandjill123 replied to 2cooldeans's topic in Operating Room

    A lot of nurses on our service have started wearing the full length face shields. They are the ones with the foam padding and the strap on top. The benefit it that the shield isn't attached to the mask so it won't really fog up and you get far more ...

13. Perioperative new grad residencies

    jackandjill123 replied to Kellywolfe89's topic in Operating Room

    Hi Kelly - I did the 'Nursing Residency - Perioperative Track' at Dartmouth-Hitchcock right out of school. It's a 9-month program and I will say, one of the best things I ever did! It's definitely intense, but you get thrown into a lot of 'fires' i...

14. Cardiac Team - Pros / Cons

    jackandjill123 posted a topic in Operating Room

    Anybody with Cardiac Scrub Experience? I was recently offered a role on our high-risk cardiac team as a scrub. Our CT team is very 'defined' and does not have practitioners (especially nurses) moving between scrubbing and circulating. I've done 3 y...

15. Operative Disimpaction - PPE

    jackandjill123 replied to jackandjill123's topic in Operating Room

    We took patient back in 4 days later and unfortunately, he expired intraop.