redding6

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1. Oral surgery & dental office sedation

   redding6 replied to CrunchRN's topic in General Nursing

   I can understand the hesitation to have general anesthesia in an out patient arena but I can assure you that, as an Oral Surgery RN, our clinic performs a variety of procedures every day with IV or conscious sedation as well as general anesthesia and...

2. Dental Assistants Pushing Propofol etc...

   redding6 replied to Larry77's topic in Emergency

   Whew!!! Let me clear some things up here. I am a RN X 22 years, 15 in ICU/CCU, 4 in PACU and now 2 in an Oral Surgery Clinic. We do IV sedations as well as general anesthesia, IN THE CLINIC, for a variety of procedures but mostly extraction of wis...

3. Anyone here work at MAMC?

   redding6 replied to Corvette Guy's topic in Government

   I have worked at MAMC for 7 years this month. I worked in one of the two ICU's they have, named ICU-East (includes peds, PICU) and ICU-West (includes post hearts and IABP's). Both are great places to work and the critical care course taught by MAMC...

4. Depression amoung OR nurses after organ harvesting

   redding6 replied to redding6's topic in Operating Room

   Ugh! Up until one time in my nursing career, I would have had a hard time believing what you wrote except I too witnessed what I thought was a horrific practice of piling dead bodies in two and occasionally three layers deep, in the morgue, because ...

5. Depression amoung OR nurses after organ harvesting

   redding6 replied to redding6's topic in Operating Room

   Thanks to those who replied to my question about participating in an organ harvesting, very insightful responses you gave. I will use the responses in my CE (not verbatim, but generalized). The situation in the OR at the time of the harvesting proc...

6. Depression amoung OR nurses after organ harvesting

   redding6 replied to redding6's topic in Operating Room

   thanks for replying! I pictured myself in that room that you described. Very somber indeed. Reminded me of the Parkland ER (Dallas) when a trauma victim died. A lot of "could that be me". I haven't seen an organ harvest, but I have heard from those...

7. Depression amoung OR nurses after organ harvesting

   redding6 replied to redding6's topic in Operating Room

   Thanks Alyce for replying, I am really surprised no one has done a study on the topic for their masters degree, or some other reason. AORN for OR nurses has touched on the topic in their article in 1999, but really, no one has done a study. Oh well,...

8. Depression amoung OR nurses after organ harvesting

   redding6 posted a topic in Operating Room

   I am not finding any information on depression amoung OR nurses who have assisted with organ harvesting. A few articles actually mention the existence of OR nurses finding the experience difficult to deal with, but I wonder if anyone has done a stud...