daisee

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1. rising incidence of shoulder injuries

   daisee posted a topic in International

   I recently posted on the Op Room site regarding a rising incidence of neck/shoulder injuries in our theatre unit that now has six people out on 'special' duties or leave. (Occurring over the past 12 months among scrub/scout female staff, new and expe...

2. shoulder injury

   daisee replied to daisee's topic in Operating Room

   ShirleyM, thanks for answering. What were they doing? Thats the point: there is no one thing. Our unit is +++occ health & safety conscious, and it seems this injury is replacing ye olde back strain. I'm interested that some people mention the...

3. Depression amoung OR nurses after organ harvesting

   daisee replied to redding6's topic in Operating Room

   Dear Kathy, we do 'brain death' harvesting in the twilight zone of the wee small hours with surgeons who swoop in from their various specialties in different institutions in the nearby major city and depart clutching their booty (We are a major regio...

4. shoulder injury

   daisee posted a topic in Operating Room

   We now have four RNs put out to pasture with neck/shoulder injuries all within the past year. Two were part-time, two full-time, ages late twenties to late thirties, and no specific specialties - busy regional trauma center. And from time to time m...

5. New York Times seems to think robots can replace "scrub nurses"

   daisee replied to lapappey's topic in Operating Room

   God bless'em. We tried Aesop for a little while to hold laprascopic cameras, but he/she/it required too much respect, not to mention precise ennunciation, for a surgeon with places to be to be bothered with. And there was simply no satisfactio...

6. What is the point?

   daisee posted a topic in International

   My mum, 92, partially blind and pretty deaf, fell and broke her right arm last week. She lay on the floor till my dad, also 90 but fit as a bull found her. He rang around all the 'help' services, as they always told him to call, but finally discove...

7. Pediatric instruments counts

   daisee replied to jimmers's topic in Operating Room

   Are you suggesting you don't do a count for some patients depending on size? Call me an old fuddy-duddy, but I thik once you start choosing who you'll bother to count for you'll unleash pandora's can of worms. So maybe you won't lose that sponge in...

8. Help - What style of scrub tops do you prefer?

   daisee replied to NewNurse2be's topic in General Nursing

   Why are you buying your own scrubs? Are you washing them yourself at home? Are they fresh and clean every day? Is this a language problem and these are not the tops getting covered in blood, vomit, and any other possibly infectious material? Is th...

9. Can someone tell me how 12-hr shifts work?

   daisee replied to LPNalmost!'s topic in General Nursing

   we were threatened with 12 hour shifts recently I think due to the imminent nursing shortage. It has been discussed in this forum previously, and in the operating theatre pages. I think it comes down to personal preference and stamina as to its ben...

10. Warning!!! Go Pee Before Reading

    daisee replied to FranEMTnurse's topic in Humor

    I find this all very hard to credit. I MET Chip (or was it Dale) many years ago, and he/she/it struck me as a sensitive new-age squirrelly chipmunk swimming-with-the-dolphins kinda mammal. Is this change in behaviour akin to the canary down the min...

11. Warning!!! Go Pee Before Reading

    daisee replied to FranEMTnurse's topic in Humor

    Brilliant! What a fabulous piece of writing! I never realisied squirrels were so gung ho - or is the pressure of modern life creating 'squirrrel road rage'? Reckon you could work that into a short story and sell to a magazine. Look forward to the ...