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Always double glove....it's your life not anyone else's! When doing any laser vaporization cases always use the thick laser masks. I have heard of Hep C cases and there is always the scare of HIV..... treat every patient as if you could get something...

Not sure if I have what you want... In time: patient enters operating room. Surgery start time:knife to skin, Surgery end time: dressing on patient out time: when pt leaves operating room and enters PACU (this is the same time, if you have a long di...

It takes strength and endurance of both character and soul and a love of adrenalin:devil: It takes a lot of common sense and being able to prioritize your work. Yes, standing can make you ache, doing nothing can cause delays in care and death. It is ...

Lots of good suggestions I didn't see stretching in there anywhere. It helps so very much! I know a few people who have tried the MBT shoes.... expensive but they swear by them. Good luck

I am not clear on what exactly your asking about. Do you have housekeeping? Aids that help turn rooms? You need everyone to do their jobs like dropping off patient and paper work and specimens. Scrubs clean up back table and take instruments to dirty...

If your patient is not oxygenating well then they are not in a lot of pain or cannot tell you. You always check vitals first. A good PACU nurse will be assessing their patient while hooking up monitors etc. Use your common sense if nothing else. ABC ...

Again........... no reason to do the bowel resection..... your obviously still bothered by this (as are a few of us;)) have you talked to anyone else about this? If not, you need to.

You bring up a very good point......do they define "grossly?" I think it is a very sad state of affairs when our patients (possibly) suffer because money is driving the issue. I just remember a tech I worked with who carried in so many dog hairs from...

Still sounds like a big macho trip to me....... what is wrong with their hands...?? the stool may be great now and almost every OR light I have ever seen has the "bar" on it........ don't you have to get really close to the surgeon when doing this? e...

As some of the replys have noted, don't use such a "wet" sponge it needs to be wet enough to work from the site of the incision "out" and if it does run, you should be using some sort of towel (impervious or not) at the patients sides or neck or wher...

most of the people I work with including myself wear Dansko either the clog or the type with a back. I have tried crocs..... didn't work for me but some people love them. Good luck ;-)

I have unfortunatly been in on many OR deaths..... I have NEVER seen a surgeon continue on with any operation when the patient has expired! I do not know the legalities of the action, but I think that perhaps the director of your department and the c...

to MickymomRN...... tech's are not taught pharmacology true. However the RN is! Our policy has always been that the RN delivering the drug to the scrub (rn or tech) shows the drug states what it is shows the expiration and then the scrub states it ba...

this is a battle that seems to be fought over and over in the world of OR nurses and OB nurses. First, the OB nurse has got to understand that the OR nurse KNOWS how to operate..... the OR nurse needs to remember that the OB nurse knows about regular...

Hospitals do loose a lot of money on scrubs I do understand this. However....... OSHA would have a lot to say to your hospital if they actually implement this. AORN's standards of practice site that the water temperature has to be hot enough to kill ...

This is actually to "twill" regarding "dirty cases" I know that orthopedic nurses still think that bowel cases are dirty, but not so..... Universal precautions ( I know,an old term) but what it stood for is still viable. Any one of your patients coul...

No more shoe covers unless you wear your shoes everywhere. ;-) Most OR nurses and doctors I know keep a pair that are specific to OR and do not wear them outside the facility.I have been around so long that the debate over paper hats and cloth hats h...

of course it depends on your facility and what your "rules" are. I have only seen it done once or twice here. the parents need to realize at some point they have to "let go". The issue of control will be with them forever, but like growing up at some...

the only pixis I am aware of is for medication's. I have not used one in the sense of your post. I am also a bit confused by your comments about re-stocking.......From my side we have to re-stock our rooms ourselves and it would be lovely to have an...

In our facility if you had a strong objection to organ procurement you didn't have to do it. I never really saw anyone depressed after helping on a donor patient because most of us felt that we were carrying out the wishes of the patient by giving "l...

The hospital here uses computers in the OR's and they are on a movable stand. The bio-med department works on the qualification aspect of the equipment and if it passes the standard test that it needs to be in the hospital and the OR. The key pads ca...

I know when you first start doing this job things can get confusing. ENT is one of those areas. When figuring out if something is a sterile procedure do yourself a favor and really think it though. You cannot sterilize a mouth.....the nose is also a ...

personal malpractice insurance is inexpensive and well worth it. Remember that a surgeon or anesthesiologist is NOT the caption of any ship. YOU are a PROFESSIONAL and as such you need to be aware that you will go down just as easily as anyone else. ...

You need to go to your State Board of Nursing web site and get a copy of your Nurses Scope of Practice. This is the best way to know what you are and not allowed to do. As a nurse who became a registered nurse fist assistant, I found out a whole lot ...

Have you tried telling the "other nurses" to get the patient while YOU set up your own room. You need to flex your inner nurse muscle a bit more and take control of your room. You can go to your super, but I would start by telling my co-worker what I...