GadgetRN71 ASN, RN

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    How does your facility handle Lidocaine?

    GadgetRN71 replied to miwachiru123's topic in General Nursing

    My issue isn't with the nurses mixing and drawing up the meds(we do this in the OR) but with the putting the syringes aside for later use by someone else..how do you know they mixed it correctly, or...
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    Fake Nails

    GadgetRN71 replied to Coloradogrl's topic in General Nursing

    I love pedicures..we can have nail polish(not chipped) but no fake nails. I don't even bother with the nail polish most of the time. I could have afforded manicures in school because I worked full...
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    Male Surgical Nurses

    GadgetRN71 replied to avidgolfer3's topic in General Nursing

    What do you mean by surgical nurse? Do you mean an OR nurse or a nurse who takes care of post-ops on the floors? If you mean OR nurse, then there is no extra schooling after you get your RN. You do...
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    Staff acting like mean girls what do you do

    GadgetRN71 replied to amiconfused's topic in General Nursing

    I have lived through this too and have found that confrontation is the best way to go. That sounds horrible but if someone says something nasty or mean spirited to me now, I don't let it slide. I deal...
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    too nice/quiet for the OR?

    GadgetRN71 replied to QHnurse07's topic in Operating Room

    You are right about Trauma surgeons being some of the nicest to work with..I think it's because they don't have time for the drama,KWIM? They are calm because you have to be when the poop hits the...
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    What's the easiest job in the operating room?

    GadgetRN71 replied to linda2097's topic in Operating Room

    I'm not sure you can even compare circulating and scrubbing. I do both and they both have their hard parts. In my specialty, night call(11p-7am) is scrub call. I was on call a few weeks ago and stayed...
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    Say What??????!!!!!!!!!!

    GadgetRN71 replied to gt4everpn's topic in Patient, Colleague Relations

    We don't give insulin in the OR and even I know that 10cc's of insulin is a very, very bad
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    New and tired

    GadgetRN71 replied to FlyOR's topic in Operating Room

    Absolutely nothing is wrong with you...It can take a about a year before that acid in the stomach goes away..there is a big learning curve in the OR-that's why the orientation is so long. I was a...
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    I failed my class (BUT I FEEL GREAT)

    GadgetRN71 replied to 2bnurseforce1's topic in General Nursing

    I've known several people that had to repeat a nursing class-ALL of them are RNs now. So, you keep holding your head high, because you will do
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    I failed my class (BUT I FEEL GREAT)

    GadgetRN71 replied to 2bnurseforce1's topic in General Nursing

    OP, you have a fantastic attitude. Your failures don't define you, it's how you respond to them. It sounds like you were a little thrown at first by the testing etc. but you improved with time. When...
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    Leaving management and happily going back to the floor

    GadgetRN71 replied to oregonchinamom's topic in General Nursing

    I was never what was considered "real" management...I was a charge nurse. I still do it, but not for the whole shift. It was either that, or I was quitting. I had no authority to make decisions, but...
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    Are You Popular At Work?

    GadgetRN71 replied to Vito Andolini's topic in General Nursing

    I think the nice, reasonable people like me. The ones that are caught up in high school behavior don't, because I won't play their little game. I don't participate in raking others over the coals and...
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    Time spent on resuscitation of a celebrity

    GadgetRN71 replied to DuluthMike's topic in General Nursing

    I participated in one in the OR a few years ago on a 78 year old guy! He lived and 4 days later was sitting up in bed talking with family. That was freakin'
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    How Will Universal Health Care Change Nursing?

    GadgetRN71 replied to arelle68's topic in General Nursing

    Regarding the people who come in for free pregnancy tests and who keep spitting out kids, or others who milk the system. I think everytime you go to the ER for a non-emergent reason, they should...
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    How Will Universal Health Care Change Nursing?

    GadgetRN71 replied to arelle68's topic in General Nursing

    Well, the argument could be made that some people have issues with that too. I don't have a problem with Social Security, because we pay into that. I believe they should toughen the standard for...
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    How Will Universal Health Care Change Nursing?

    GadgetRN71 replied to arelle68's topic in General Nursing

    First off, I work in a level one trauma center. Trust me, we have plenty of people coming in off the street bleeding out and we save them, simple as that. No one looks at their insurance status. Much...
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    How Will Universal Health Care Change Nursing?

    GadgetRN71 replied to arelle68's topic in General Nursing

    This is going to sound horrible but if it comes to capping pay for nurses, reducing benefits etc I will leave nursing, as much as I like my job. Bad enough that insurance companies run healthcare, now...
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    how do i get into the or as a tech before i start nu school

    GadgetRN71 replied to ErinDel's topic in Operating Room

    Ok, I got confused because around here, we call surgical technologists either surgical tech, scrub techs or OR techs. Once you start your nursing program, start looking for student nurse extern...
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    Has Anyone Ever USED Their Malpractice Insurance?

    GadgetRN71 replied to pagandeva2000's topic in General Nursing

    I really think you need to stop listening to the risk management people when it comes to malpractice insurance..they have a vested interest in making sure you don't have your own policy. Look at it...
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    Things You'd Like To Tell Visitors . . . . and get away with it

    GadgetRN71 replied to Ruby Vee's topic in General Nursing

    Why on earth do you think of surgery as a social event? If I had my way, only the special needs patients, kids and the elderly with dementia or Alzheimers would be allowed visitors in the PACU. No...
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    Has Anyone Ever USED Their Malpractice Insurance?

    GadgetRN71 replied to pagandeva2000's topic in General Nursing

    Not to be mean, but I laughed out loud when I read about the risk management team having the nurses best interests at heart.. Risk management/hospital administration by and large have sold their souls...
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    Has Anyone Ever USED Their Malpractice Insurance?

    GadgetRN71 replied to pagandeva2000's topic in General Nursing

    Yes, and they are full of crap. These days, it doesn't matter if it's a Catholic hospital or not. I worked for one a few years ago and they treated their employees terribly. Any hospital will say that...
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    how do i get into the or as a tech before i start nu school

    GadgetRN71 replied to ErinDel's topic in Operating Room

    There are student nurse positions in some places..but you have to be a nursing student already. To be a surgical tech, you need training and in most places a degree or diploma. Back in the day, they...
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    How many of you had to wait on a waiting list for nursing school?

    GadgetRN71 replied to aabdelhadi88's topic in General Nursing

    My CC had a waiting list that was first come, first served. They have decided to go back to the way it used to be, which was performance based admissions. I was on the waiting list for a year. The...
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    Is it me?

    GadgetRN71 replied to keepitreal's topic in Operating Room

    !! weeks is really just a drop in the bucket when you think about it, especially for someone new to the OR environment. In my hospital, the total newbies to the OR are pretty much still on the...