gallacher2001

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1. Looking for Comfy Shoes

   gallacher2001 replied to sg6307's topic in Operating Room

   I wear croc's, like everyone else I have tried god knows how many different shoes and croc's I find are best for my back and my feet! The unfortunate thing about them is that they will be banned in our theatres as of August, apparently....and I am d...

2. waking anesthestized patient

   gallacher2001 replied to akor's topic in Operating Room

   We operate in a department that has 16 elective theatres and 2 dedicated emergency theatres and one trauma orthapedic theatre, so I have to say that fortunately we have never had to reverse an anaesthetic to do an emergency, cancelled lists before an...

3. Depression amoung OR nurses after organ harvesting

   gallacher2001 replied to redding6's topic in Operating Room

   I work in Scotland in anaesthesia and scrub in a busy theatre dept. I am also on-call on a 1:2 basis for organ retrieval. My experience of the whole journey thankfully is not one that involves greedy, squabbling surgeons! All cases that I have been i...

4. In Scotland, AFC still not been assimilated! Anyone else?

   gallacher2001 replied to gallacher2001's topic in International

   Forgot to mention that as a theatre nurse undertaking both scrub and anaesthetics we have been banded in band 5 Ds&Es with our Fs in band 6.... What band as an E are you in?...Just be interested to see the scale of descrepency between regions on ...

5. In Scotland, AFC still not been assimilated! Anyone else?

   gallacher2001 posted a topic in International

   Firstly a quick hello! I am a RGN currently working in a large Scottish hospital in the main theatre department in both anaesthetics and scrub. I've been in employment with the NHS since the AFC was first introduced back in Oct 2004, unfortunately m...