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Hey everyone! I need some background info on Pain Clinics. The OR where I work is getting ready to start a clinic. My main focus is the coordinating nurse and her role in the clinic. I know that she will initially see the patient etc. Can anyone give...

Thought everyone would get a kick out of this... Top Ten Phrases Heard in The OR 1. I do it the same way everytime 2. See one, do one, teach one 3. Blame it on anesthesia 4. It's on back-order... 5. Did the sales rep bring food? 6. Turn up the music ...

Sorry, I didn't think to include that. These will be patients with chronic pain problems, such as back pain...

Don't let anyone know you are a licensed person, because lawsuits come out of the woodwork when they find out you're a nurse and just won MEGA BUCKS from the lottery, and you know some of the time frames are like 7 years or more for a person to sue....

:roll :roll :roll that is great smalltowngirl! I work in a small town OR but I have worked in a bigger OR (that is where I learned everything). Just make sure you don't let the surgeons or some wise a- - nurses intimidate you..oh and they are right, ...

illya, code pink is for the adduction of babies in many hospitals.

Sparrow! Boy would I love to see that happen in our or...most of the staff are too chicken to do anything, and we do not have a manager with any backbone...

We have a whole administration that thinks the nursing staff should kiss the Docs you know what! I think it has something to do with being a SMALL hospital in the middle of small town America.....listen we have patients that come in to have surgery w...

Curlygirlrn, I live about 2 hrs from Charlotte, nice city to visit but don't want to live there...crime rate very high, roads are messed up as far as traffic patterns are concerned. Winsto Salem is really nice, for the up and coming if you know ...

Stevierae I TOTALLY AGREE...I was just curious...that is all. Our hospital had a sign on bonus for 5,000 and not many takers, like you said H_ _ _ of a place to work, and for a corporation to boot..HA HA HA...our corporation is afte...

: Hey! Any nurses from, or live around Myrtle Beach??? I heard there is a 10 grand sign on bonus at one of the hospitals there:D Is this true:confused: someone let me know about what, when, where if they are privy to this information:eek: Really app...

Kewlnurse, I'm suppose to go down to the beach labor day. If I see or hear anything about the new hospital I'll be in touch. My husband fishes at Merills Inlet a lot...rnor

Hey everybody! The hospital is Grandstrand Medical...the net address is http://www.grandstrandmed.com the gist of it is 10 big ones over 2 years, and 1,500 relocation money, plus benefits...sounds too good...gave no details as to how you get the mon...

Furball, trying to find out...but no luck yet...

Nascargirl381 if you hear of the good deal at MB let me know, or if I learn of the deal I'll let you or everyone know...thanks..rnor

I only live 2 hr. from Myrtle beach, and my parents have a place there so....I COULD EASILY go along with 10 thou. depending on the stipulations....:chuckle

I wear clogs and I work in the OR...do not have a problem keeping them on my feet, and have not had a problem running for an emergency...the name of the clogs I wear are ANYWEARS. Guess after you get use to wearing them they are like any other shoe. ...

We transport our patients without O2...but it is not even 50ft. from our surgery rooms to PACU. If the pt. has had problems then they are put on O2, but he majority are not.

We just had a visit from THE BIG J...ha..ha. As everyone else said the staffing was great for about 3 days and then Puff the Magic Dragon took them away...and yes our drug rooms were locked up like Ft. Knox. The real kicker was our manager thought ev...

I need help with Osha guidelines. A specimen was thrown in the trash after a surgical case. This happened Wed., and on Friday the OR was notified that the specimen was not in the specimen bottle sent to pathology. Well, the surgeon was called etc. an...

To continue the saga of the dipsy-dumpster and the specimen...let me fill you in... administration held a meeting with the crew that was present in the room, and proceeded to tell them that they never said for the OR crew to go through the dumpster.....

Nannanurse I agree with you about all the extra non-nurse related classes we have to take in school...I mean, when I went to nursing school eons ago, we had to write a computer program...and computers weren't even big then....orrn

Huggietoes...I agree with everyone else...GET OUT OF THERE! I work in a similar situation but not as bad as yours seems to be..! Good luck...let us know what happens...

I lived in Nurenberg, Darmstat, and Reagensberg, Germany. It is a beatiful country. Get this, I started kindergarden there, came back to the states, went back to Germany years later, only to graduate high school there. My husband had to go to Nurenbe...

Bob, Isn't that the truth about lawyers..and some docs. I just had to pay a lawyer 400 bucks so my hubby could get out of a ticket, which was his fault...speeding.of course. This will probably take 5 min. for the lawyer to take care of, if that ...