MereSanity

MereSanity specializes in Operating room..

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1. I need help!

   MereSanity posted a topic in Operating Room

   So what is your process with instrumentation in the OR? Does every speck of blood need to be off the instruments before sending them to SPD? Or just the majority and then spray before sending them? Our SPD has started requiring us to scrub every spec...

2. Is seeing a pt in Preop really a must for OR nurses??

   MereSanity replied to Guest 1170770's topic in Operating Room

   Would you give a patient medication someone just handed to you? No? Would you want to check it yourself? I am a certified operating room nurse and I will not put my license or job on the line by placing my trust in doctors, anesthesiologists, nurses,...

3. What chloraprep does everyone use?

   MereSanity replied to mhy12784's topic in Operating Room

   The teal chloraprep is for people with darker skin tones. Easier to see after applied...not for fair complected people. You cannot see the orange on darker skin, you can however see the teal.

4. Now we can't change a trash bag until patient leaves the room....is this getting crazy??

   MereSanity posted a topic in Operating Room

   OK I need some input here. So I was always taught not to wipe down tables or spray instruments while the patient is in the room (seems like common sense), but now my hospital has decided that we can't break down the back table, change the trash (if w...

5. Informed Consent? Input needed...

   MereSanity replied to MereSanity's topic in Operating Room

   Ours always say laparoscopic possible open, never just gallbladder removal because laparoscopic and open are such different procedures (same outcome) but definitely different.

6. Informed Consent? Input needed...

   MereSanity replied to MereSanity's topic in Operating Room

   Anterior however is supine and on a specialty table whereas a traditional hip replacement is lateral. Completely different positioning and couldn't be changed mid procedure like a chole or valve. And like it or not anterior is a laterality.

7. Informed Consent? Input needed...

   MereSanity posted a topic in Operating Room

   OK...I just need input here. We did an Anterior Hip Replacement and the consent only said Total Hip Replacement (no indication of anterior approach). I ticked off the Dr when I asked that "Anterior" be added to the consent. His argument was either...

8. NIFA RNFA program starting

   MereSanity replied to msb6ec's topic in Operating Room

   I would be interested too in this information!

9. What's so great about OR?

   MereSanity replied to lelms's topic in Operating Room

   I love the OR...great place for ADD personalities. Been there for almost 9 years now. I love one patient at a time, asleep patients, no real family interaction (OK, I suck I know). I love the atmosphere and personalities in the OR (and sometimes n...

10. Can an RN do an I&D or place sutures?

    MereSanity replied to Lemon Bars's topic in General Nursing

    If you work in surgery and get your RNFA (RN First Assist) you can indeed do these things. A BSN is suggested for an RNFA.

11. OR as a new grad

    MereSanity replied to EES9969's topic in Operating Room

    You gain so much more than you will ever "lose". It's the longest orientation of any specialty for a reason! I could reorient to the floor in a week...however no floor nurse could float to the OR without a ton of orientation! I love the OR!

12. OR Nurses

    MereSanity replied to cmp137's topic in Operating Room

    Pinch the nose. I wear glasses and don't have an issue. Good luck!

13. Question about working with multiple agencies

    MereSanity replied to samanthadaisyRN's topic in Travel

    I have heard you should use more than one agency. When one has nothing good another might. Keep options open. One traveler calls them her "pimps"...working to find her good assignments.

14. Ask an OR nurse (Questions about what we do or how to become one of us)

    MereSanity replied to Rose_Queen's topic in Operating Room

    I had 7.5 years (8 now) and am CNOR certified. I have a lot of experience except I don't have neuro experience (I did open heart another team did neuro so I never did it before). That is a drawback for me but I told them straight up I don't do neur...

15. Weirdest/most difficult thing swallowed by a patient

    MereSanity replied to ixchel's topic in General Nursing

    Yeah...the large can of body spray had no "lip" on it...took forever to get a grip on it.