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1. You know you're an OR nurse if...

   FlyOR replied to Rose_Queen's topic in Operating Room

   You know you're an OR nurse when you hand people stuff that they murmur under their breath unintelligibly that they want. You know you're an OR nurse when you figure out you've created a "sterile field" around whatever vegetables you're chopping/ was...

2. Advice from psych nurses

   FlyOR replied to FlyOR's topic in Psychiatric

   I thank you all very much. I feel a bit better about my struggles with this mess. I guess my "keep your mouth shut" policy is really the best one, amazing how that one always works. I will explore the Al-anon meetings, I think it would help my spo...

3. Advice from psych nurses

   FlyOR replied to FlyOR's topic in Psychiatric

   Ahh. In this case, I am going to have to admit to not doing my homework. Jeepers, I know better! I guess I just thought that no one would come here and admit that they loathe a mentally fragile individual who happened to be in their sphere. And, a...

4. Advice from psych nurses

   FlyOR posted a topic in Psychiatric

   I haven't done any psych nursing since nursing school. At the time, I actually did very well at it, and it was a definite option, however, I decided it was too much like my previous job and I wanted something different. Here's what I would be gratef...

5. Typical Orientation for PRN OR positions???

   FlyOR replied to DinoJack's topic in Operating Room

   Pick up the newest edition of Periop standards and read it cover to cover, almost everything about being an OR nurse is in there, and it will give you the knowledge as a base while you pick up the rest. With already having training in how to move/ h...

6. Explain: Preload vs Afterload

   FlyOR replied to outside_child's topic in Cardiac

   Bravo! What a generous post Esme! I wish I had seen that when I was in anatomy! Just a suggestion, if you google "cardiac animations" or really any animations, you can get some good stuff. Sometimes the visual is the trick for certain learners, it...

7. Prayer Before Surgery

   FlyOR replied to orscrubcutie1's topic in Operating Room

   You know, I have thought a lot about prayer when I am at work, mostly because I am doing the praying. Sometimes, I have been in cases that have been so dicey, that I have thought that one of the the reasons I drew it, WAS to pray. I think that at ...

8. Best and Least Cases?

   FlyOR replied to ACaring&Sweet,Rn's topic in Operating Room

   LOVE Ortho! Great big femur fractures, drills, plates, screws, Jackson table and the satisfaction of "fixing"! Like General, but only at certain times. General surgeons can be mean )&*()*&(&& s. Cases are great, just who you're wor...

9. Pregnancy and work hours

   FlyOR replied to Ilovethe80s's topic in Operating Room

   Using the argument "you knew it when you took the job" applies only so far, and likening pregnancy to various diseases doesn't hold water. Pregnancy is a life event, not a disease. There are two lives affected and protective policies benefit not j...

10. Pregnancy and work hours

    FlyOR replied to Ilovethe80s's topic in Operating Room

    Yup, these responses are pretty typical of what I have seen in nursing. I come from outside the healthcare industry and I have been pretty appalled by how it deals with pregnant workers, especially considering the previous and continuing prevalence ...

11. attention: senior nurses

    FlyOR replied to nar-es's topic in Operating Room

    When I was in nursing school, I just kept repeating to myself "shut up and learn". I think that helped me in orientation. Nurses who teach tend to like to teach, but it can be pretty thankless when you have someone who doesn't want to be taught, or...

12. Full time to PRN?

    FlyOR replied to Ilovethe80s's topic in Operating Room

    Rather than PRN can you switch to part-time? At least that way you might have it easier dealing with the mandatory OT. Also, try going out of the box, can you work a weekend day? One night and a day? Sometimes you just have to start asking the rig...

13. OR Oops

    FlyOR replied to 2001ORRN's topic in Operating Room

    I once pulled my sterile mayo over an undraped patient. Everyone has dumb moments. The fact that you realized it and immediately reported it says that you are where you should be. Sterile conscience is just that, a conscience, and the people who wo...

14. How to get yourself ready for a long day in the OR?

    FlyOR replied to Monica08's topic in Operating Room

    I don't know if this will help, but I treat a day in the OR like an athletic event. I make sure I go to bed early, prepare everything I need the night before and kind of block out life for those eight hours. I eat protein at about 0630 and then a s...

15. RN in the OR?

    FlyOR replied to 2bDocOc's topic in Operating Room

    You've been given a lot of good answers, but as someone who is still relatively new to healthcare I see the circulating nurse in the OR as the minimum. Surgery is the cutting open of the human body. The patient has no defenses except those that the...