NurseLumpia

NurseLumpia specializes in MedSurg (Ortho), OR.

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1. Surgical preps for cardiac patients

   NurseLumpia replied to catherinefran's topic in Operating Room

   we use iodine scrub then

2. Cardio-Thoracic Differential Pay

   NurseLumpia replied to GarretSTL's topic in Operating Room

   During my CV time, the CV team got the same base pay. But, we do get a monthly

3. Passed the CNOR exam

   NurseLumpia replied to Heart2015FNP's topic in Operating Room

   Congratulations! I'm happy and jealous at the same time. I took my test and missed the 'cut' by 6 points. Needless to say I'm very disappointed. Now, I just need to get back on the proverbial horse....

4. Hospitals paying for our kids' education

   NurseLumpia posted a topic in Operating Room

   Hello all, I just recently heard from a coworker that she heard rumors of hospitals paying for your kids' education. Is this just an urban myth? I thank all in

5. recapping saline bottles?

   NurseLumpia replied to lynswim's topic in Operating Room

   Like Argo and Poet... My OR first pours the saline then asks the scrub to draw up with a syringe and reconstitute the Baci/poly inside its' vial. Maybe your OR thinks that it's antibiotic anyways and...

6. CTOR or Neuro

   NurseLumpia replied to NurseLumpia's topic in Operating Room

   Thanks Argo :) That's one thing that I don't have to worry about... When it comes to getting experience on something that I am interested in I have no fear in learning about it. I totally want to...

7. CTOR or Neuro

   NurseLumpia replied to NurseLumpia's topic in Operating Room

   Thanks Canes & Argo, I took both your advises and went to the manager to ask regarding the opening. They (CTOR) were busy at the time and she said she'll talk to me once gets quieter... So, now, I...

8. OR manager working a room

   NurseLumpia replied to NurseLumpia's topic in Operating Room

   My OR has a manager that respects, yes, she is bossy, but she CAN run and scrub a room. It also has come to a point where she is the first to say NO I'll precept the new person so they will be it...

9. CTOR or Neuro

   NurseLumpia posted a topic in Operating Room

   Hello all, I find myself at a cross road in my OR... I have found out that CT will be loosing one of their nurses and therefore will have an opening. I am interested in doing this, but, if I do switch...

10. OR manager working a room

    NurseLumpia replied to NurseLumpia's topic in Operating Room

    Thank you for the replies :) It happened again this week... a manager was placed in a room to scrub and was actually almost drawn to tears... they had to pull someone to scrub and her circulate and...

11. OR manager working a room

    NurseLumpia posted a topic in Operating Room

    Hello all, This topic just came about recently... Staff in my OR feel that the managers are all out of touch with the rooms. The staff have spoken to HR about this and the feedback from the managers'...

12. operating room checklist

    NurseLumpia replied to NurseLumpia's topic in Operating Room

    It's still in the tweaking phase... Did your 'universal' (that's what we are calling it) checklist have a N/A box, cuz an issue came up, one of the checkboxes is did the pt verbalize their name, DOB,...

13. operating room checklist

    NurseLumpia replied to NurseLumpia's topic in Operating Room

    The check list that came out has 5 columns. The 1st column is for pre-op 2 - 4 is for the OR nurse with a checkbox that states 'lock the stretcher before moving the pt over' and 'did anesthesia put a...

14. operating room checklist

    NurseLumpia posted a topic in Operating Room

    Hello all, Just recently my OR did a trial run for a universal checklist. My OR took a checklist from a leading hospital and tweaked it to serve our hospitals' purposes. It seems that there is a bunch...

15. "Neutral" sharps passing zone

    NurseLumpia replied to fezzin's topic in Operating Room

    We pass by hand, we mostly use the safety blades where the surgeons need to stow the blade into the sheath before passing back but then you have idiot med students trying to be "usefull" then you have...