ElvisLives

We are in the suburban St. Louis area (10 minutes from Downtown ) so there is all that the city has to offer . Missori hill country is nearby with their clear streams and Ozark Mountains. Wine country tours and such as well. Metro East area here is full of shopping and entertainment options , as is St. Louis. The ICU here is a great place to work with a lot of great things happening. I know they are working on getting some agency staff in to fill some acute needs. You will like it here, the hospital is a great place to work.

I work at Belleville Memorial Hospital. We are an ANCC Magnet Accredited Nursing Department. Our hospital has a very low turnover and vacancy rate. We have targeted vacancies (ICU,ED Float Pool). This is a great hospital to work at if you are a nurse. Nursing rules at Memorial!. I work in the OR.

I have heard that Memorial Hospital is the preferred hospital to work at.

AORN Congress is without a doubt, the best meeting for OR leadership.

That's why it's important to bring your Glock to work. There's no question then as to who is in charge. ;-D

That would be called-"EYEBALLSEWEDSHUTOTOMY"

Subsequent to two separate GYN procedures that required Lithotomy positioning, we have had two separate patient injuries. They have been discovered post-op in the MD offices to have blistered areas on their buttocks approximately 3-4cm x 8-10cm on their buttock areas near the coccyx area. This is well away from the bovie ground pad. On both of these patients, gel pad , pressure-relief pads were used and documented. They both used ESU units with REM monitoring. Monopolar ESU was used with normal settings. The patients were bot prepped with betadine scrub and paints. The area was described by the surgeons as looking like a burn, reddened with small blisters. Doesn't appear to be an ESU burn, we are thinking perhaps pressure-related and/or a chemical burn from the prep solution remaining in contact with the skin for the duration of the procedure. (The "burn" would appear to be in the area where solution would pool with a patient in the lithotomy position. These patients were both treated w/ silvadene cream and recovered uneventfully. Anyone ever experience this and any suggestions???????????What am I missing here? Thanks!! ElvisLIVES