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  1. Skull bone flap

    brainnurse replied to gnom's topic in Operating Room

    Hi, There's nothing wrong with flashing the skull flap...it does get a little soggy, but like the surgeon said, it hardens up in situ after a few months. No more than 3 minutes, though (3&5) I...

  2. UCI Medical vs. Hoag?

    brainnurse replied to IVyPush-her's topic in California Nursing

    I reinforce the recommendation for UCI. The cardiac nurses rule at Hoag, and unless you want to be on that team (which you can't, unless you're young, blonde and white), you'll feel like an ugly...

  3. Comparing Wages in the OR setting

    brainnurse replied to dmclung's topic in Operating Room

    This isn't about levels of responsibility, liability, or personal value and worth. Hospitals have very rigidly designed hierarchal pay structures for job description categories or lisencure, and new...

  4. Comparing Wages in the OR setting

    brainnurse replied to dmclung's topic in Operating Room

    Yeah...it is a huge compliment, and a concession on the part of HR. Unfortunately, hospital pay structures are very rigid. You are in a nursing compensation category based on how many years you've...

  5. End Stage Parkinsons Questions

    brainnurse replied to AtlantaRN's topic in Hospice, Palliative

    Watch out for putting scopolamine patches on PD patients. It's an anticholinergic and will worsen rigidity and drooling...may also worsen existing cognitive problems. I would ask to d/c permax and...

  6. Latex Allergy

    brainnurse replied to kleinbbc's topic in Operating Room

    Please say she didn't really tell you to do that??? If a patient were allergic to PCN, but you already drew it up....I guess by her thinking, you shouldn't have to waste the syringe. Just squirt it...

  7. longest surgery?

    brainnurse replied to love2shop's topic in Operating Room

    One time I took pity on a surgeon who'd been scrubbed over ten hours and still had a long way to go. I took him in the substerile and held a urinal for

  8. Stupid little mistakes....

    brainnurse replied to RNOTODAY's topic in Operating Room

    Nurseinlimbo........ I finally got out after 25 years, but I don't know how badly my soul was damaged by the abuse. Fer Chrissake, who else in your circle of friends goes to work every day and get's...

  9. Why are OR nurses so mean????

    brainnurse posted a topic in Operating Room

    I've been in the OR for 25 years. Started as a scrub tech, worked my way through nursing school, and up to management. Recently, because of a relocation, I took a staff job in the OR, and was struck...

  10. Is anyone an admission nurse?

    brainnurse posted a topic in Hospice, Palliative

    And do you like it? I am leaning towards admission nurse instead of case manager. I think I would do pretty well at managing these discussions, and would probably enjoy assessment more than actual...

  11. Stupid little mistakes....

    brainnurse replied to RNOTODAY's topic in Operating Room

    You won't forget those things once you get them into an automatic sequence. Every case, no matter what discipline, starts in a certain sequence....turn on the lights, plug in the bovie, plug in the...

  12. Why are OR nurses so mean????

    brainnurse replied to brainnurse's topic in Operating Room

    Corvette Guy, Will you tell us your OR

  13. Is anyone an admission nurse?

    brainnurse replied to brainnurse's topic in Hospice, Palliative

    I accepted an admissions nurse position with Vitas, here in So. Cal. It's a bit less $$ than I was offered at other agencies doing case mngmt, including admits, but there is no call requirement, and...

  14. How does this sound?

    brainnurse replied to photorn's topic in Hospice, Palliative

    I'm sorry that happened to you. It's pretty healthy of you to think of a way to turn those experiences and feelings into a vehicle to help someone else. Do you think it will be hard for you to take a...

  15. How does this sound?

    brainnurse replied to photorn's topic in Hospice, Palliative

    Those are great questions to ask. Photorn, it sounds really good. What made you decide to pursue hospice? It seems like many OB nurses gravitate to it.....must be something about the life/death...

  16. Why are OR nurses so mean????

    brainnurse replied to brainnurse's topic in Operating Room

    Thanks for listening to me rant and vent. My husband and friends are sympathetic, but don't really "get" it, having never been in that world. I should add that even though it sounded like I lumped all...

  17. Salary Question

    brainnurse replied to TORRIA RN's topic in Nurse Management

    remember also, that as management, your ceiling will be higher, and in a few years you will have exceeded what you could have ever made on staff. Personally...I love being on salary. You are not...

  18. So, pick one already!

    brainnurse posted a topic in Hospice, Palliative

    Glad to find this board. I'm about to enter hospice nursing....with the same fears and anxieties as everyone else, but that will be okay. I've been managing perioperative care for the last 13 years...