MCHRN13

Nights are typically call, and trauma OR's have staff overnight but it has to be with experienced strong staff. Being a new graduate you start where they are willing to take you, any shift, any floor from there you branch out.

In lieu of recent events we are all experiencing shortages on hospital fluids for IV's, procedures, etc. We have had many agency staff doing things very different regarding fluid management and are wondering what other facilities are doing. For example, if you are finishing a cystoscopy case, and there is a great deal of fluid left in the irrigation bag, would you spike the IV to it rather than spiking a new IV bag? Same for Orthopedic irrigations, arthroscopies, pulse lavage, etc. Most of us older staff find it unheard of, but we are hearing its occurrences with the national shortages.