RacheloneRN

Hey Y'all, I'm a student about to graduate with my BSN and am starting in an OR internship in January. I'm so excited and can't wait to start! Does anyone have any tips for me before I start so I can be on top of things. I know studying NCLEX stuff...

Hearing yall mention a 10 minute prep is shocking. I could only imagine the crap I would get from my surgeons if I prepped for 10 minutes, I feel rushed while using chloraprep sometimes, and these docs have low infection rates. For total joints, with...

In our OR if someone is asked to stay late or come in on their day off and they are not on call, they are paid a Critical Shift Diff... which I believe is time and a half.

When I was in High School, a teacher/mentor/musical theatre director would constantly reassure me by saying at least you have "inner grace." I've always said my 1st daughter would be named Grace, that way there would be some in my life. BTW, I never ...

We have a few nurses in our facility in TX that wear scrub skirts. They are provided and laundered by the hospital, as are the rest of our scrubs, and the ladies wear thick pantyhose under their skirts.

I wear hats from SparklingEarth.com, they have a terrycloth band around the hairline and I've never had any breakage, they're comfortable too! Good luck, I hope you find a good solution.

Our facility also charges us PTO for "holidays." I think it sucks, but I guess you just have to factor holidays into your PTO when considering using it. I'm glad to hear we aren't the only ones.

Hey Yall, This is kind of a vent, but also any tips would be appreciated. I'm a new RN, 6 mos working OR and this week I had my first code. I am still being precepted, and have not experienced a code in any area of nursing. This week I was spendin...

region - north texas level 1 trauma, not-for profit, private # of or's - 47 $$ for being on call only - 2 specialty get extra?? - not sure good luck, i hope you are successful.

We had to wear Landau for school - I found them uncomfortable in the thigh area - I was so happy to never have to wear Landau anymore!!

Have you considered school nursing? The OR (at least at my facility) offers 8 hour shifts - but not a normal 9-5... We start at 0630-1500. Good luck in the job hunt. Congrats on passing your boards.

Haha I couldn't agree more! I'm a new OR nurse and one of my first abdominal preps I was so grossed out by what I dug out of this clean looking patient's belly button. It is also interesting to find unexpected tattoos on patients (not that I can say ...

187. You were so excited when you passed your boards because you could go change your username to usernameRN.

I'm also a new OR nurse, and in our facility we do not test the balloons on our foleys. The rationale at our facility though is because the manufacturer instructed us that it is not necesary as the foleys are pretested prior to shipment. You may want...

So I decided to try out danskos, hopefully my feet will thank me more than my bank account did... Thanks for the tip about the pants, but I'm only 5'0" - I don't think any pair of pants has ever looked liked high-waters on me...lol... I'll let y'all ...

I just want to cry!! I went straight to the mall for a little retail therapy and to keep myself from thinking about it... I feel horrible. I don't know why, but I was just convinced that I would only have 75 questions... after 100 I started to panic....

I'm a new OR intern too, I am also the type of person who is too hard on myself. The OR is a totally different type of place. I see nurses come who have been in the OR for 10 years come in with the wrong things all the time too. I think one of the bi...

I PASSED!!!!!!!!!!!!! I'm an RN! Thanks for your support!! I think that was the hardest couple days ever! Thank God Texas is a quick result state!!!

Good luck to you too! I heard that feeling like you failed is a good sign because of the CAT... hopefully that's alright.

I too am a new grad and during nursing school, and even working in an office for 12 hour shifts I LOVED my nursemates, I especially liked that I don't need to tie them, I always have shoelace issues, but now that I am scrubbing in the OR, my feet are...

We are allowed to wear cloth if all hair is covered. Wash to AORN Standards.

Ask what the retention rate is and what is the reason that most employees give for leaving. That's a pretty good thing to know, it helped me make my decision between 2 facilities. Good luck in your job hunt, I hope you are able to find what you're lo...

Actually some facilities do refer to a "med/surg" floor as Surgery, if they have their post-op patients on a separate unit from the "med" or ill patients, I am a new grad in the OR and I did apply for a job on a "Surgical" unit only to find that it w...

I am about to graduate with my BSN in Dallas, TX. As an OR graduate nurse intern, my starting salary is 21.50, an offer that I received from another hospital was $23.77. Both hospitals are level 1 trauma centers with over 900 beds, in Dallas. This ho...

Baylor's scale is based on GPA, you need to pass the NET but I'm told it doesn't make much of a difference unless you score below college level. I'm in nursing school @ Baylor's school of nursing in Dallas (did my first 2 in Waco) and was accepted wi...