Sardonic Nurse

Sardonic Nurse has 2 years experience and specializes in Operating Room.

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1. confused

   Sardonic Nurse replied to erirn's topic in Operating Room

   I often feel the same way you do. I have been doing this job for 3.5 years now, I only circulate, sometimes I don't know all the instrumentation, and although I am in charge at night, my scrub techs don't always listen to me. They think they know e...

2. Laparoscopic Screens

   Sardonic Nurse posted a topic in Operating Room

   Tonight I came in to relieve someone in a laparoscopic case and noticed that the screen was right over the back table. I almost freaked but this was the position in which the surgeon could see best. We supposedly have a higher infection rate in th...

3. Scrub nurses

   Sardonic Nurse posted a topic in Operating Room

   Ok, so I know that nurses who scrub make better circulators. However, I took the periop 101 course right out of nursing school and was never taught how to scrub. Many of the nurses here, especially the ones that have been around for awhile, scrub a...