pinkandgreenRN

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1. Discontinuing Femoral Nerve blocks

   pinkandgreenRN replied to tracern77's topic in Orthopaedic

   P_RN, I pulled my first femoral nerve block Friday and it was no different from pulling an epidural. It was quite exciting. :balloons:

2. Discontinuing Femoral Nerve blocks

   pinkandgreenRN replied to tracern77's topic in Orthopaedic

   I don't think so. Although I have not pulled either one.

3. Working with new circulators

   pinkandgreenRN replied to Sammy25's topic in Operating Room

   When I trained as a new surgical RN we actually had a surgery educator and specific teaching. The first 6 weeks we went to class for 8 hours and learned sterile technique and such. We also went to Central Sterile part of the day and put together the ...

4. personal scrubs in OR

   pinkandgreenRN replied to scrubnurse's topic in Operating Room

   I have been in surgery for over five years and we launder our hospital provided green scrubs. I was trained at our sister hospital and was taught to wear my street clothes to work and change into the hospital provided scrubs. Imagine my shock when I ...

5. Discontinuing Femoral Nerve blocks

   pinkandgreenRN replied to tracern77's topic in Orthopaedic

   No, we have an orthopedic nurse practitioner and a physicians assistant on the floor daily that pulls them out.

6. Soooo, you're observing in the Operating Room (O.R.)...

   pinkandgreenRN replied to Marie_LPN, RN's topic in Operating Room

   Marie - Thank you for an excellent post. I have been a surgical RN for the past 5 years. We seem to have more and more students each day. We have Med Students, RN students, LPN students, scrub tech students and high school allied health students. An...