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  1. sterile fields in operating room

    passionate replied to pcoburn's topic in Operating Room

    I have never opened a room in the presence of a patient unless it was an emergency and I was scrambling to get my set up going. I don't understand opening with a patient in the room. As a circulator I...

  2. sterile fields in operating room

    passionate replied to pcoburn's topic in Operating Room

    I don't but I know that AORN

  3. sterile fields in operating room

    passionate replied to pcoburn's topic in Operating Room

    I have always worked in an AORN standardized OR setting. There was a time that we covered out set-ups with sterile drape sheets. Now we don't Evidence based practice is

  4. License risk in the OR

    passionate replied to RNOTODAY's topic in Operating Room

    In my state only Rns circulate so that in itself narrows the scope. I too have never had more than one circulator. The RN circulator can deliver a mediction to the sterile field, an ST cannot. That is...

  5. Do I need a stronger backbone?

    passionate replied to GadgetRN71's topic in Operating Room

    I hear you and agree with the chatter. Don't fall for the "I'll check your room"............that is the whole point--it is YOUR room and "they" are gone when something is missing! Stand

  6. Pixis for everything?

    passionate replied to NSDRN's topic in General Nursing

    Where I work the fingerprint site doesn't work most of the time. I agree, I don't like using my fingerprint or retinal scanning idea,

  7. Pixis for everything?

    passionate replied to NSDRN's topic in General Nursing

    We have pyxis for meds only. That works. For supplies? We have a flat rate billing system per surgery. I think having pyxis systems for supplies would just be a

  8. Moving Patients off O.R. table

    passionate replied to CAsunshineRN's topic in Operating Room

    Move a pt by oneself?

  9. Help! I may get fired!

    passionate replied to Siouxz2's topic in Operating Room

    ambulatory surgery IS face-paced for sure; being a professional eavesdropper is so very

  10. Help! I may get fired!

    passionate replied to Siouxz2's topic in Operating Room

    I am in this situation right now. I am a perioperative nurse "precepting" L&D/PP nurses in circulating of c-sections. I stick out like a zebra in a stable of

  11. Help! I may get fired!

    passionate replied to Siouxz2's topic in Operating Room

    I cringe when I think of my time on a med/surg floor during school. I had always worked in the OR as a tech and just could not grasp (well I did but, sigh....) that doctor's orders were something to...

  12. Circulating

    passionate replied to Great Potential's topic in Operating Room

    When we used the old 5x7 card system we shot anyone that used

  13. License risk in the OR

    passionate replied to RNOTODAY's topic in Operating Room

    I agree with that wholeheartedly. thanks for that

  14. Circulating

    passionate replied to Great Potential's topic in Operating Room

    no books--learn to be a professional

  15. Hello

    passionate replied to smileyface36's topic in Michigan Nursing

    When I was in nursing school we, as a class were required to take the LPN board which is half/way through the RN program. I didn't practice as an LPN but the value I gained from taking "a board" was...

  16. Per diem, a lil nervous

    passionate replied to RNOTODAY's topic in Operating Room

    Focus on communiication with colleagues you feel you can trust to give you good information. Know the policies and procedures of your facility. You will be the rn of record--don't forget in that you...

  17. License risk in the OR

    passionate replied to RNOTODAY's topic in Operating Room

    re: malpractice insurance. I have worked long enough that I have seen nurses be protected by the institution during a litigation in which they were named and then action taken against that nurse once...

  18. License risk in the OR

    passionate replied to RNOTODAY's topic in Operating Room

    I am always concious that I have a license and that I work with a surgical technician who is not licensed. When I was a tech before becoming an rn with a license I was told that I was working on the...

  19. Making money just by taking call

    passionate replied to mikethern's topic in Operating Room

    Also, check to see if your hours you actually work (not the hours of stand-by fee) are considered hours that go into your benefit pkg. If they do then you get the benefit of the time and the pay of...

  20. Is it time to leave the OR?

    passionate replied to NurseRoRo's topic in Operating Room

    If you think you might really like to scrub but don't have an environment that supports it you might want to look into a surgical technology program. Not all of them are for a degree. Alot of the...

  21. My biggest mistake, EVER

    passionate replied to CIRQL8's topic in Operating Room

    It takes alot of courage to admit an error and even more courage to share it. Good for

  22. Stupid question....

    passionate replied to RNOTODAY's topic in Operating Room

    AORN standards are clear on this. Another good resource is Alexander's and Berry & Kohn. I agree with the placing of towels (impervious) on either side of the belly, making my paint solution as...

  23. New Orientee

    passionate replied to technonurse's topic in Operating Room

    I agree--try to arrange for a new preceptor or at least one who can weigh in on the dilemma you find yourself in. Hey--are all of the preceptors out there reading

  24. "Circulating is so easy"

    passionate replied to ORSmurf's topic in Operating Room

    I was a surgical technician for 7 years before becoming an rn. I have scrubbed and circulated. There is nothing easy about any of it. Because I have always been part of a "team" I would want ffrom the...