OPCC

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1. Needing Information about Doniphan, Mo

   OPCC posted a topic in General Nursing

   Can anyone tell me any thing about Ripley County Hospital in Doniphan??? How old is the hospital building, how many docs, are they a moving forward hospital, what are working conditions like, how are...

2. Patient History & Physicals

   OPCC replied to Chilly_hands's topic in Operating Room

   Our H&Ps and any pre-op labs are completed within the week prior to scheduled procedure by the patients local physician and then placed on the chart ready for our outreach surgeon who comes 1-2...

3. Surgeons "go ahead" problem ?

   OPCC replied to OR male nurse's topic in Operating Room

   It is REALLY nice to know that there are others out there with the same problems. I have been beating myself up for many things that happen in our OR dept and they really do not seem as bad as some...

4. Any Anticoagulation Nurses out there????

   OPCC posted a topic in Ambulatory Care, Clinic

   I work in an outpatient area and I handle the coumadin clinic for our providers. I would love to find other nurses doing the same thing and bounce questions off

5. Help!!! need OR indicators defined

   OPCC replied to OPCC's topic in Operating Room

   :typing Thanks to all of you who have replied. I will add to my scenerio: I go out and pick up the patient after Doc and the CRNA have finished their interviews. The CRNA is always present on our...

6. Help!!! need OR indicators defined

   OPCC replied to OPCC's topic in Operating Room

   Are OR forms have the the same set of times that you mentioned. I am looking at ways to study our turnarounds and on paper identify the problem areas of the process so it is in black and white for...

7. Help!!! need OR indicators defined

   OPCC replied to OPCC's topic in Operating Room

   Yes - we page the surgeon ahead of time. Many times we page him several times. When you are the only surgeon- as we are a rural hospital and the surgeon is an outreach surgeon - he seems to take...

8. Help!!! need OR indicators defined

   OPCC replied to OPCC's topic in Operating Room

   Thank you for your reply. What I am looking at is our turnaround time and how to make it faster. Three distinct processes exsist within overall turnaround time. 1) Surgeon out to patient out. 2)...

9. Help!!! need OR indicators defined

   OPCC posted a topic in Operating Room

   Please correct if I am wrong in my difinitions: Patient Out - Pt. leaving the OR Patient In - Pt. being brought into the OR Surgeon Out - Surgeon has completed closing and leaves room Surgeon In - ???...

10. HELP!!! Just had my eval from admin.

    OPCC posted a topic in Nurse Management

    I was told in my eval that I have a perfectionist personality and that it may iritate others. YES - I do have an (anal) personality but it has served my patients well. Either it is done right and in...

11. Struggling with staffing & patient scheduling

    OPCC posted a topic in Gastroenterology

    I work in a small rural hospital. We have a surgeon that flys in once a month to do minor surgeries and scopes. We have one OR that we use for both surgeries and scopes. We do between 5-10 cases...

12. Staffing....What are guidlelines / formulas for it

    OPCC replied to WaynesvilleRN's topic in Gastroenterology

    Am I ever glad I found this site. I work in a small rural hospital. We have a surgeon that flys in once a month for surgery cases and scopes. We too are staffed with 2 RNs and CNA in the OR for scopes...