RNOTODAY BSN, RN

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    How do you develop thick skin?

    RNOTODAY replied to IsseyM's topic in Operating Room

    tess, did you work in another facility in the same
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    Stand your ground

    RNOTODAY replied to StikTie's topic in Operating Room

    Ummmmm....please, before going back into the OR,for your own sake, and for your patients and everyone elses who works with you, review what you have just said, and get the CORRECT info. :uhoh21:
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    Is there power in the color white?

    RNOTODAY replied to bbfw2's topic in General Nursing

    White has nothing to do with our image, power, or anything else. The wearing of white , and those hats, are from a different time and place. People, doctors included, were different then. To think...
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    BN vs. Diploma Program

    RNOTODAY replied to studentnurses3's topic in General Nursing

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    "Med-Surg first"..need advice from a student RN

    RNOTODAY replied to StakRN's topic in Operating Room

    This is my philosophy. I HATE med surg. So, of course, I gravitated to an area nothing like it. I am in the OR now. And I can honestly say, that there is nothing on a med surge floor that you NEED to...
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    Stupid little mistakes....

    RNOTODAY replied to RNOTODAY's topic in Operating Room

    My hospital made an arrangement with a local tech college, with a scrub tech program, to teach the peri op 101 course in 5 weeks. This was not straight 5 weeks, it was 2 days a week for 5 weeks.We...
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    Female Foleys... I STINK AT THEM>>> HELP!!!

    RNOTODAY posted a topic in Operating Room

    Any tips, please? I just havent dont them much in my career, so I am not good at female foleys. I mean, the pt is asleep, froglegged, how much easier can it get , right? I must be missing something. I...
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    First week of orientation finished... feeling overwhelmed!

    RNOTODAY replied to happylush's topic in Operating Room

    I. am. so . happy. I found this board......... anyway, the reason why I am so happy, is because I can see that there are people who are in my same position. I am feeling the saaame way. I have been...
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    Anyone gone union?

    RNOTODAY replied to liljsmom02's topic in General Nursing

    I have worked in union, and non union. We need unions. I wont work non union again, thats for sure. Now, about starting a union from the ground up, that I know nothing
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    I wanted to explain what happened to me...

    RNOTODAY replied to LoriAlabamaRN's topic in General Nursing

    I am so so happy for you Lori, that things took a turn for the better with the new job. Good Luck!!! Reading your experience, and others like it, well, just makes me curse the day I even APPLIED to...
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    How do you develop thick skin?

    RNOTODAY replied to IsseyM's topic in Operating Room

    You know what, though? For me, the problem was not so much that people verbally abused me (and the other new people) , its that they treated you like you were invisible. They were rude, but in a way...
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    Should I "surrender"?

    RNOTODAY posted a topic in General Nursing

    OK heres my current dilemma, I dont know what I should do: I started orientation in the OR in December. I have had a few medical problems, leading to 2 loa's of 1 month each, plus a few other days....
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    Should I "surrender"?

    RNOTODAY replied to RNOTODAY's topic in General Nursing

    ok, post back with a "GO" or 'NO GO" as in, should I even return there from my LOA, or just transfer
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    Should I "surrender"?

    RNOTODAY replied to RNOTODAY's topic in General Nursing

    ahhhhhhhhhh thanks guys. It was just the one conversation so far,(with the managers) and when i go back I will be getting a verbal reprimand for going over the occurence allowance... as I said it is a...
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    can i move it here?

    RNOTODAY posted a topic in Operating Room

    Are we allowed to copy one of our own posts and put it into another forum? Or at least ask the same general question/topic? I put something in general that I want you guys to give me some advice on!!!...
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    Should I "surrender"?

    RNOTODAY replied to RNOTODAY's topic in General Nursing

    I supose I could, but their concern is with my abscences I have allready had.......what would you do? would you walk away gracefully, or
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    Surgeons "go ahead" problem ?

    RNOTODAY replied to OR male nurse's topic in Operating Room

    Well, yes, our pts are brought back without the surgeon actually being in the room, but in the hospital.... most of the time we send a page that the "pt is in rm 10"..... but we have an id policy...
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    Scrubs for the Blesses in size

    RNOTODAY replied to laverty's topic in General Nursing

    She means where do the overweight people find the best fit in scrubs.... get it... "blessed" in size? To answer your question, I too, am a lil blessed, lol, and I find my best fit in the cheap...
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    Female FOLEY

    RNOTODAY posted a topic in Medical-Surgical

    Please help! I completely stink at female foleys. I work in the OR, and before that, I didn't get a chance to do them a whole lot. I guess I have an advantage, because the pt is not moving, but I cant...
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    Transport to PACU

    RNOTODAY replied to elcue's topic in PACU

    oh, ok marie, I thought you were saying you had NO housekeeping or other ancillary help, etc, that it was just the surgical team in the room that did turnovers!!!! (minus surgeons of
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    Transport to PACU

    RNOTODAY replied to elcue's topic in PACU

    Meaning, the circulator and the scrub
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    Just venting

    RNOTODAY replied to IsseyM's topic in Operating Room

    Issey, I am experiencing the same thing!!! I have literally, been the only person in the hall with , say another nurse, looked them in the face, smiled, said, "HI Mary", and they have turned their...
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    Transport to PACU

    RNOTODAY replied to elcue's topic in PACU

    We have OR assisstants, in addition to houskeeping, that do the turnovers...do you not have
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    Badly Paid Nurse a Good Nurse

    RNOTODAY replied to foxyhill21's topic in General Nursing

    I, personally, am really tired of this whole discussion (not this one in particular, in general) about nurses getting paid, or wanting to be paid, or wanting to be paid more, or being in it for the...
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    Stupid little mistakes....

    RNOTODAY replied to RNOTODAY's topic in Operating Room

    Well glad to help, cuttingedge!!! :wink2: Seriously, I can kind of understand how hard it must be to let "us" do our own thing while learning, but there must be a middle ground!!! lol If I can...