11Blader

11Blader has 43 years experience and specializes in Operating Room x 38 years.

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1. Bovie grounding pads

   11Blader replied to target98765's topic in Operating Room

   Four decades in the OR and the only pad burn I've personally seen was from a metal ground plate used on a patient who had surgery in Mexico. The bovie machine was some relic from the 1950s and they didn't have good contact with the skin, hence the bu...

2. Lunch relief by a scrub tech?

   11Blader replied to heather42r's topic in Operating Room

   The CMS bulletin isn't 'nebulous'. They state specifically that 'RN outside the room would not be considered immediately available'. Be advised that the CMS or AORN may publish statements but your state board of nursing is who regulates your pr...

3. Is seeing a pt in Preop really a must for OR nurses??

   11Blader replied to Guest 1170770's topic in Operating Room

   I would NEVER think of accepting a patient in the OR unless I had assessed them myself FIRST. I have more than once found: the wrong name bands on my patient, the wrong surgery on the consent, no blood consent signed, no marks on body vital to do tim...

4. Hysteroscopy question

   11Blader replied to Annie M's topic in Operating Room

   The items you listed will be used to INJECT a diluted Vasopressin solution into the uterus or near vessels close to the utero-cervical junction. You will dispense the 50 mls saline into the med cup. Then add the 20 units Vasopressin to the saline in ...

5. Time Out Policy

   11Blader replied to Silver_Rik's topic in Operating Room

   If the ESWL is done on the same table, without moving the patient, and, all the personnel in the room were present for the first timeout, I can see why you are questioning the repetition. In other institutions the personnel starting the case may not ...

6. New Grad Nurse in OR

   11Blader replied to 1m9s9s8's topic in Operating Room

   The idea that your manager is okay with putting a brand new nurse into an OR without a complete orientation tells me they will NOT have your back when mistakes are made. If your manager had a spine, she/he would be putting their foot down to that non...