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  1. New fall grad entry students

    grimmy replied to LilPeanut's topic in Post Graduate Students

    yes (quivering in my boots) i am starting next week. i'll be taking only one class, but with working full-time, its all i can manage right now. my professor has given me her go-ahead to do what i...

  2. All I know (LONG)

    grimmy replied to grimmy's topic in Operating Room

    we do have teams. our thoracic team has only just come about in june, and the team leader only arrived a few weeks ago. i have the least experience of the 3 of us. some of the surgeons want to be...

  3. All I know (LONG)

    grimmy replied to grimmy's topic in Operating Room

    unfortunately, we don't have an or manager. we haven't had one for some time (since before my time here). leadership is a major sore point at this institution's or. the charge nurse was, well, at...

  4. Verbal abuse in the OR

    grimmy replied to JaneRNBSN's topic in Operating Room

    wow, marie, that just makes my stomach churn. i was working with the major whiner surgeon on friday, and i wanted to clobber him, but he never called me names or degraded me. he's merely a pain in...

  5. Do you work overtime?

    grimmy replied to edcampbe's topic in General Nursing

    when i saw the title of this thread, i thought: "is that some sort of joke?" yes...only yesterday i worked for 15 hours straight, and it had nothing to do with charting. several ors were still...

  6. Paging OR team

    grimmy replied to OR nurse nut's topic in Operating Room

    this is never a problem where i work because the anesthesia team brings the pt back to the room everytime. we usually interview the pt in tandem. while i interview, they get their meds, then i get...

  7. It's a Hospital, Not a Hotel (Gripe)

    grimmy replied to daisybaby's topic in Ob/Gyn

    the last facility in which i worked had a mandatory in-service called (and i'm not kidding) "why healthcare should use disneyworld as a model." :barf01:all nursing staff had to go to it (all 5...

  8. Current Standard of Care for patients safety on the OR table to prevent falls

    grimmy replied to thlnc's topic in Operating Room

    i have had some conversations with our anesthesia teams about "waking up" the pt before we have a chance to get them out of lateral recumbent positions because, while they are strapped in for the...

  9. What is your biggest nursing pet peeve?

    grimmy replied to ferfer's topic in General Nursing

    the word "orientate" has come into the lexicon as a misnomer - it is an incorrect usage for the word "orient." and the pronunciation for centimeter as "sontimeter" is from the french pronunciation of...

  10. You might be an OR nurse if.......

    grimmy replied to mcmike55's topic in Operating Room

    oh, when lunches come out in the break room, you should see all the recycled specimen cups come out of folks' lunch bags with salad dressing, grated cheese, etc. and i love the idea of those blue...

  11. Verbal abuse in the OR

    grimmy replied to JaneRNBSN's topic in Operating Room

    it occured to me that maybe you could surreptitiously record him in the or, and play this for your administration. could be illegal in your state, but if not, i'd say go for it. sounds like someone...

  12. You might be an OR nurse if.......

    grimmy replied to mcmike55's topic in Operating Room

    :rotfl: this is great! oh, and the shoes being biohazards, guilty as charged - that's why they stay at work! one thing that could be added: all the dropped items from the back table that are used...

  13. Peter Jennings' Death, and pt teachings

    grimmy replied to Fun2's topic in General Nursing

    i think johnny carson's ultimate demise had to do with smoking, as did one of the actors who played darren in the original "bewitched" tv show. one of the problems i see (and i work in thoracic...

  14. I'm Starting OR Next Week....Help With Questions Please

    grimmy replied to wayover20's topic in Operating Room

    i agree with suzanne. the new-to-the-or rns that we train keep their salaries, with certain caveats regarding bonuses, but i'm not sure exactly what those are. and, just a tip to you: keep a...

  15. Verbal abuse in the OR

    grimmy replied to JaneRNBSN's topic in Operating Room

    its situations like these that make me extremely grateful for the job that i have. i guess i'm waxing poetic because i reach my 1-year anniversary in or nursing this week. i chose my first facility...

  16. Should BSNs be paid more?

    grimmy replied to edcampbe's topic in General Nursing

    i know what you mean! but, anymore, in certain states, nursing students cannot, by law, perform certain nursing tasks. as for the foley, rectal temp, etc. some nursing classes are so huge that there...

  17. Should BSNs be paid more?

    grimmy replied to edcampbe's topic in General Nursing

    i agree. if i didn't have power, and didn't (more importantly) believe i had the power, i couldn't do what i do. my caring for the patient is much different than bedside nursing, and far more...

  18. What was IV tubing made of before the invention of plastics?

    grimmy replied to sunnyjohn's topic in General Nursing

    i do believe (and i could definitely be wrong) they were made of rubber or silicone. problem with rubber is that it gets dry, cracks, and its hard to

  19. What is your biggest nursing pet peeve?

    grimmy replied to ferfer's topic in General Nursing

    oh, the latest pet peeve i have are nurses that could care less if i told them the pt has cloudy urine and non-blanching spot on their sacrum - often when i give report, i can hear them whispering...

  20. Question about thoracic aortic aneurysms

    grimmy replied to wannabenursetx's topic in General Nursing

    while i am of the opinion that if you need the test you ought to have it, cost is a factor, especially for ct's and any sort of angiography. if you have a pcp that you trust implicitly, and your...

  21. team building

    grimmy replied to blufoxtrot's topic in General Nursing

    when i was a pct, i often did night shift in the ed, and we would plan a bbq night every week. one of the rns would bring a portable bbq and set it up under the heliport, and cook up hotdogs, veggie...

  22. Question about thoracic aortic aneurysms

    grimmy replied to wannabenursetx's topic in General Nursing

    how awful for you, and how courageous you are! :icon_hug: i hope that you will take stock of the info you've already received, but remember that you cannot force your children to do what's best for...

  23. Just a vent

    grimmy posted a topic in Operating Room

    i had a lousy day today. i got sent to the cath lab with folks that had never been there (i'd only been there once before). i was circulating a case where part of the iliac artery had to be...

  24. Just a vent

    grimmy replied to grimmy's topic in Operating Room

    i wound up in the same room yesterday with many assurances that housekeeping and biomed had gone through the vents with "a fine toothed comb." no problems during our case, which was actually really...

  25. Why Are 12 hour shifts the standard?

    grimmy replied to Alpha13's topic in General Nursing

    where i work (in the or) we have the option of 8, 10, and 12 hour shifts. i work 4 ten hour shifts, in part, because i love to have an extra day off during the week, but also if i am scrubbed in all...