GadgetRN71 ASN, RN

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    Surgeons who scrub early

    GadgetRN71 replied to linda2097's topic in Operating Room

    Our surgeons don't do this. We are a teaching hospital though, so the residents will prep and everyone participates in positioning. The surgeons also drape the patient, especially in ortho. They are...
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    Verbal Abuse from surgeons in the OR

    GadgetRN71 replied to spineCNOR's topic in Operating Room

    Many of the hospitals are waking up because disruptive physician behavior has been getting a lot of press lately in my area. Our paper had a long article about how bad behavior from docs is...
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    Verbal Abuse from surgeons in the OR

    GadgetRN71 replied to spineCNOR's topic in Operating Room

    I have to say that I'm pretty lucky to have a boss who doesn't tolerate this.. This happened to me yesterday, and since this has not been the first time this particular doc has been difficult, I wrote...
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    Burned out with nowhere to go

    GadgetRN71 replied to lockheart678's topic in Operating Room

    OP, just know that not all ORs are as toxic as yours. I also don't agree that once you've been in the OR a while, you can't do anything else. I've known several RNs that went to different areas after...
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    Tourniquet Time

    GadgetRN71 replied to bettyboop08's topic in Operating Room

    If I'm reading your post correctly, you were correct, as long as you started the case with a cleared machine. Our charting doesn't really have a spot for multiple inflates/deflates. I do note these in...
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    Anyone Else Change Their allnurses Handle?

    GadgetRN71 replied to CaLLaCoDe's topic in General Nursing

    Ha, I decided to go along with the trend and changed my name...I am WitchyRN no longer...now I am SquirrelRN71. Squirrel is a name one of the surgeons called me when I first started out, I think...
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    Advanced Practice Nursing in the OR

    GadgetRN71 replied to sallber's topic in Operating Room

    There are other options for nurses in the OR.. You can become a CRNFA- Certified Registered Nurse First Assist. They can close patients etc under the supervision of the surgeon. Some places have...
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    LPN v ST v RN

    GadgetRN71 replied to Quiara's topic in Operating Room

    I was an ST before I became a nurse. I loved my job, but the program I attended was way too expensive($24,000) and you don't have many options as an ST or LVN(not too many of those in the OR anymore)....
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    Jobs W least amount of needles and blood.

    GadgetRN71 replied to cute-1's topic in General Nursing

    Tell her to stay away from the OR! Then again, I've known people that have started out being squeamish, and they end up as the sort that have guts of steel. But really, very few nursing specialties...
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    Documenting Implants

    GadgetRN71 replied to buck70's topic in Operating Room

    We put down reorder numbers and a description of what plate was used in the computer and log book...we don't document the lot number because the trays get refilled by the rep or the staff and there's...
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    Nursing pins

    GadgetRN71 replied to RNmom08's topic in General Nursing

    I got the 10K one, and I think it was around 150.00. My mom insisted on buying mine as a graduation present. We weren't given the option of a pin guard..anyone know how I could get one? I wore mine...
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    Things you would love to tell your management and get away with

    GadgetRN71 replied to madwife2002's topic in General Nursing

    -No, the staff shouldn't have to forgo a raise this year..especially when the CEO made 3.2 million dollars last year, the hospital is actually one of the few making a profit, and the hospitals...
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    What is your biggest nursing pet peeve?

    GadgetRN71 replied to ferfer's topic in General Nursing

    I know it can be frustrating to see patients suffer but some people don't believe that you should just roll over and die because you've passed a certain age. Me personally, I'm going out kicking and...
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    Something I've noticed about OR nurses...

    GadgetRN71 replied to keira30's topic in Operating Room

    I think the environment also lends itself to cohesiveness and teamwork. Yes, there are certainly toxic ORs out there but generally, you get close to the people you work with. Doctors even tend to...
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    Using words like honey, sweety a no-no?

    GadgetRN71 replied to bee212's topic in General Nursing

    It can be very hard not to use these words, but I'm trying. I also try to address pts as Mr./Mrs./Ms. until they say it's OK to do otherwise. I know that I'll be one of those independent elders one...
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    How does the recession affect your job?

    GadgetRN71 replied to fulzgold's topic in General Nursing

    Many hospitals around here are trying to freeze raises and take away benefits. They are trying this with union facilties, but they can only ask that we agree, since we have a contract. It's up for a...
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    what do you do about phone calls if you could come to work extra on your day off

    GadgetRN71 replied to olli975's topic in General Nursing

    :yeah:My boss got a little snarky one time because she needed someone to come in and I screen my calls too. I look at it like this, If I'm expected to answer their calls when I'm not on shift then...
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    Charge nurse with less than a year RN experience???!!

    GadgetRN71 replied to RNpandoraRN's topic in Nurse Management

    "Great" in the eyes of administration and "great" in the sense of safe patient care are 2 completely different things. The PTB in most cases are so far removed from patient care that they wouldn't...
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    Charge nurse with less than a year RN experience???!!

    GadgetRN71 replied to RNpandoraRN's topic in Nurse Management

    I agree with the OP that this is not a good idea. I say this from the perspective of someone who was put into a similar situation. My employer didn't post my job as a charge position. I found out what...
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    Do most OR's use scrub tech's?

    GadgetRN71 replied to galenanurse's topic in Operating Room

    Really, you think the hospitals would realize that while they save money in some respects, they sacrifice efficiency by not having nurses that can scrub and circulate. Yes, having scrub experience...
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    Dansko clogs

    GadgetRN71 replied to mamason's topic in Scrubs, Uniforms, Gear

    Danskos are a no go for me, I've found out. My feet feel great in them, but we have a lot of cords and equipment to manuever around in the OR, step on a cord the wrong way, and there goes my ankle....
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    RNs caught lying

    GadgetRN71 replied to inland18mempire's topic in General Nursing

    I've believe that this can happen...although OP, did you have an IV? Maybe this is what the nurse meant by catheter care? If not, that is just sad. I agree that this is a serious matter...some things...
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    Am I paranoid; or do all my clinical instructors dislike me?

    GadgetRN71 replied to cincin1's topic in General Nursing

    Nah, I don't agree...it's completely possible that her instructor may have a problem with her. Sometimes, instructors like to have what former classmates and I called "the goat". You didn't have to be...
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    My son called me lazy for being sleepy during the daytime!

    GadgetRN71 replied to momofdandm's topic in General Nursing

    I would never called either of my parents lazy..I would have caught holy hell for it if I had..the first thing to go would have been all the extras, like my allowance. Good thing I am not the...
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    "Fired for NO Reason"

    GadgetRN71 replied to Ruby Vee's topic in Nursing Professionalism

    Absolutely...I have no problem with negative feedback if it's constructive...Such as... "Sally, I've noticed you've been having problems with such and such. It would help if you ask questions if you...