RNOTODAY BSN, RN

NICU, ER, OR

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    Wiping Butt...

    RNOTODAY replied to Chicagoan's topic in General Nursing

    Who cares what the OP wants to advance her career to? And I think it is a perfectly logical question to ask from someone who is considering being a nurse. I asked the same question myself years ago. I...
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    Health Profession & Wacko's

    RNOTODAY replied to Zizka's topic in General Nursing

    NO, actually I do not need an etiquette book or a thesaures. . My question was rhetorical. As in..... if somebody calls another person "a bad speller,".. and if you, personally, are not a bad speller,...
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    Hysterectomy: Necessity or Convenience

    RNOTODAY replied to outcomesfirst's topic in General Nursing

    WEll, I have *small* uterine fibroids, and for the last 6 years, (I am 34) I have had lg clot producing monster periods, intertwined with the rest of the months of light flow normal type bleeding...
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    Health Profession & Wacko's

    RNOTODAY replied to Zizka's topic in General Nursing

    In defense to the OP, I dont think (correct me if I am wrong) that she actually meant people with dignosed mental ilnesses. I took it to believe, she meant people who are a litte "off" , personality...
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    Health Profession & Wacko's

    RNOTODAY replied to Zizka's topic in General Nursing

    Why? Are you a "wacko" ? Then why dislike, or take
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    What's your holiday bonus?

    RNOTODAY replied to Meerkat's topic in General Nursing

    We got a christmas party at a banquet facility, employees free, a guest $15, the whole hospital got a prime rib meal, and our department got a catered
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    Bonus from a surgeon, anybody?

    RNOTODAY replied to RNOTODAY's topic in Operating Room

    Well, I have mostly seen bottles of wine given out, with the ocasional flower arrangement given to a nurse who has been there
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    Circulators

    RNOTODAY replied to StudentSandra's topic in Operating Room

    ok, well i didnt think you were including lpn's in your estimation, and i include prerequisites as part of the total
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    Circulators

    RNOTODAY replied to StudentSandra's topic in Operating Room

    ejwatts says: This same token can be applied to the circulator role; techs do not have proper patient care training to efficiently deal with the role of circulator. Nurses go to school to specialize...
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    Am I Being Unreasonable? Please Give Me Your Opinion!

    RNOTODAY replied to Nurse!Nurse!Hello?'s topic in General Nursing

    U N I O N !!!!! No, its not fair at all. But, I guess, without a union, they can do what they
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    Bonus from a surgeon, anybody?

    RNOTODAY replied to RNOTODAY's topic in Operating Room

    Let me clarify........I didnt receive anything, I was just curious if it *does*
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    You Know You're an Old(er) Nurse If . . .

    RNOTODAY replied to hollyvk's topic in General Nursing

    Come on, Im curious, like which
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    Pacu report????

    RNOTODAY posted a topic in Operating Room

    What info do you guys give to the pacu nurses? I am on orientation, and I have seen dropping off the OR record with the pt and leaving, to a little more than that.....but I get no clear answer when I...
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    New Grad opens a can of "whup "

    RNOTODAY replied to ortess1971's topic in Operating Room

    Interesting. At my hospital, its different. Anesthesia always brings the pt down to the room. The circulator does not. We have a problem with them coming down too early, before we have counted, set...
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    Circulators

    RNOTODAY replied to StudentSandra's topic in Operating Room

    Right!!! I always say, its a free country, you can go to school to be a nurse just like the rest of us.... just like I could have gone to school to be a md, crna,lawyer, heck, some days I admire the...
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    Circulators

    RNOTODAY replied to StudentSandra's topic in Operating Room

    Well, I am new to the OR, so, as you may well know, the techs are invaluable to me. They simply know more than me right now. And I value them.However, if I were to scrub every day, I would become just...
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    Circulators

    RNOTODAY replied to StudentSandra's topic in Operating Room

    Ask the same doc if he would rather have the nurse if she also had just as much experience scrubbing. Its not the scrub tech vs nurse thing, its a who knows how to scrub vs who
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    Most RN's first borns?

    RNOTODAY replied to lvs2nrs3535's topic in General Nursing

    Yes, first and only child, and alcoholic father, but I didnt think of myself as caregiver...... actually, I wasnt... but interesting
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    What do you think of this......

    RNOTODAY posted a topic in Operating Room

    I was walking through the peds holding area to use the rest room, and I heard an OR assistant (not a cna, nurse, tech, just a person who turns over rooms, stocks, etc) explain to a pt and his parents...
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    What do you think of this......

    RNOTODAY replied to RNOTODAY's topic in Operating Room

    No, I found out later he did not know this family. Even if he was visiting with permission of the pre op nurse, he shouldnt be giving info on the procedure, whether he knows the info or not, because...
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    scrubs: yes or no for an interview?

    RNOTODAY replied to RNJess10's topic in Nursing Career

    short answer:
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    Hilton Head Hospital uniforms

    RNOTODAY replied to P_RN's topic in General Nursing

    I just think that there are far more important and pressing issues going on in healthcare today than the uniform * color* of the RN. But thats just
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    Circulators

    RNOTODAY replied to StudentSandra's topic in Operating Room

    Do any CST or ST bulletin boards exist on the
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    Circulators

    RNOTODAY replied to StudentSandra's topic in Operating Room

    NO. I work with a tech, who, 12 years ago, became a tech, with ojt. Just recently, she took the exam that certifies her. Now , she is a bonafied
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    Circulators

    RNOTODAY replied to StudentSandra's topic in Operating Room

    Yes, they can *check* the lab values, consents, orders, etc..... but without the knowledge of a nurse, what can they do with that information? And if the consent is wrong, for example, and the...