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I am an Operating Room nurse out of Vancouver. As shocking as this may be to hear, I actually don't have a job now. I lost my full time line and work casual (budget cuts and all...). I want to do some travel nursing with the goal of number 1. makin...

So to give you a brief background. I'm in my late late late 20's. Graduated 1.5 years ago, went into the perioperative program and as soon as I finished the OR program, I was displaced from my full time line for which I was hired. I've been working ...

I'm in Canada. Thinking of going to the US to work in the OR. Please tell me what it is like down there. In Canada, we have circulating and scrub nurses (both RNs), there's 2 of us assigned to a room, we alternate scrubbing and circulating or whatev...

So I want to travel down to the states. I'm just in the very begining stages of making it happen. I spoke with a recruiter with "Clinical One." She said that I have to handle all the visa issues myself (she told me to google it and when asked whet...

Thanks for your reply :) I found this link http://www.crosscountrytravcorps.com/cctc/about-travel-nursing/canadian-nurses.jsp#visa-asst with CrossCountry. From the look of it, they would walk me through the entire process, which seems daunting. If I ...

Thanks guys :) I think I'm gonna go for it. I'm gonna travel. I know I should be working towards my future etc. but I don't want the "if only" to be on my conscience, have too many of those already. I think the doubts mean I want to go simply beca...

Thanks for the reply. That's too bad about the scrub techs doing all the scrub work. I'll miss that. If I go, I'll make sure to ask for a teaching hospital. I work in one now and I love it, the surgeons and anaesthetists are on their best behaviour ...

I'm an RN. but I was thinking more along the lines of traveling to make money as opposed to volunteering with the red cross. Thank you for your reply though :)

Hi, new OR nurse just started who needs help. when you're by the patient who is being intubated what are you monitoring for? Do you look at the patient? The anasthetic machine? When you look at the machine, what do you monitor, the 02 sats, pulse, b...

Thanks for everyone to your responses. This makes helping the anesthetist much more clearer. I thought I had to be focusing on the monitors and everything along with being that third hand for then. Thank you.

Does anyone have any tips on knowing what sutures to use when? Like CT needles or SH needles and what type of suture to use when? i'm so confused. I'm new to OR nursing and there's a surgeon who is an absolute nightmare. He doesn't tell you what h...

Does anyone know of a good website that goes through how to read an ECG? I just want the basic info on knowing what type of abnormality I'm looking at. Visuals would be great. I searched but havn't come across anything really helpfull. I don't need ...

I'm writing a paper on a change within the health care system. What would you like to see implemented within your setting. The change can be something specific from implementing a new pain flow sheet to something a bit more general. I'd love to hear ...

I'll be graduating this year. I will be an OR nurse. Sooo excited. I have two options for the hospitals I choose. One is a smaller one that performs maily elective surgeries, some small emergencies like c sections etc. My other choice is a level 1 tr...

I'm writing a letter to the newspaper and I need some help. It's nursing week in Canada and I want to write a letter to the editor hoping they put it in the paper. I want to say how nurses have lots of different roles, they are advocates, educators...

Wow did I need to hear that. I think I pretty much made up my mind to go the trauma center but I'm just nervous about doing it. This makes so much sense. It might be harder to go the other way and I can always switch to a smaller hospital if I'm not ...

I'm in Canada so we do both. You alternate the cases so you end up doing half and half each day. I'm wanting to go the trauma hospital thiking that I might as well just jump in there and get it over with, that way I'll be able to handle everything d...

Hi, I'm in my last year of nursing and am going for an interview for the OR next week. Please help me with any advice you can give me. What will they ask me? How should I answer? What are they looking for me to say? Any advice would be wonderful. I...

OR stats that I got from the website were how many surgeries they perform a year, how many open heart surgeries they did last year, that they're the only hospital in the fraser valley to do this and this etc. Just specific stats from the hospital web...

I'm just bumping this in case anyone can think of something. I just got a job in the OR as a student nurse and I"ll take any help I can get. Thanks.

Hi, I was wondering if someone might give me some help. I'm in my last year of nursing and will be going into the OR when I graduate. I'm in a sememster now that only has clinical so I don't use any of the printing privelages (we have 250 free pages...

Thanks for your help guys. I got the job! so happy. The interview was over an hour and boy did researching how to interview help. I looked through all the threads I could find here and got some great tips. I think the biggest thing that blew them a...

Hello, I'm in my third year of nursing up in canada. Am interested in working in the OR when I graduate. I have a shadow shift in the OR that I was able to arrange for myself. I have a question What should I ask the nurses while I'm there. Is the...

Hello, I'll be studying or nursing in a year. I want to get a jump start on the studying. I bought Alexander's care of patient in surgery, 13 ed. Is that good? I thought I'd just start reading it. I also want to buy a surgical tool book such as dif...

Something like that, but without the cost cause as far as i see you have to pay to use the website.