ShariDCST

ShariDCST specializes in CST in general surgery, LDRs, & podiatry.

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1. Is anyone else being pushed for 30 minute turnover times in between cases?

   ShariDCST replied to jamieplusfour's topic in Operating Room

   Curious - Who is "dianah" and why is she editing my page? The bottom of my page says "Last edit by dianah on Mar 1 : Reason: misspelling, add comment". I put that there myself when I corrected...

2. Feeling light headed while scrubbing

   ShariDCST replied to qxvu85's topic in Operating Room

   Speaking from two different angles here. One involved 2 years of Air Force Jr ROTC in High School, involving lots of marching and mostly standing in formations outside for long periods of time. The...

3. Is anyone else being pushed for 30 minute turnover times in between cases?

   ShariDCST replied to jamieplusfour's topic in Operating Room

   I worked in many different sizes and types of facilities, from 3 OR county hospitals, to major metro teaching hospitals to a private 2 OR surgery center, and about everything in between. (I wasn't a...

4. OR call

   ShariDCST replied to aBizzyRN's topic in Operating Room

   Wow. To be perfectly honest, it sounds like a disaster waiting to happen. It looks like there are two options. Either Adminstration keeps on blindly as they are, simply hoping nothing bad ever happens...

5. OR call

   ShariDCST replied to aBizzyRN's topic in Operating Room

   Curious ~ what makes the difference between a weekend that has scheduled call and one that doesn't? Now, before anyone says "it means one weekend is covered and one isn't" that's not at all what I...

6. Patient complaints after being in stirrups

   ShariDCST replied to brownbook's topic in Operating Room

   I was a CST for a group of 12 Podiatric Surgeons at their surgery center for over 5.years, and for the procedures you mentioned, no stirrup was ever used. In fact, it would have made the whole...

7. Phrases and puns unique to the OR (Tales of a new OR nurse)

   ShariDCST replied to ChristineAdrianaRN's topic in Operating Room

   Most of the time the propofol is known as "Milk of Amnesia"! Great stuff - I have had it myself and it always does the job with no bothersome side

8. On call... 24 hours??

   ShariDCST replied to Epona's topic in Operating Room

   Your call requirements depend entirely on the facility where you work, their staffing levels, the kinds of cases and surgeons they have and so on. Every facility has its own quirks and idiosyncracies...

9. gowning and gloving technique

   ShariDCST replied to isabing's topic in Operating Room

   Or you could just open gloves first, putting them on the bottom under the gown. No need then to slide things round, less risk of contamination, and is an easier flow to work from top to bottom. This...

10. gowning and gloving technique

    ShariDCST replied to isabing's topic in Operating Room

    Never did it either way actually. There shouldn't be anything on top of your gown at all except a towel before going out to scrub. I always gowned and gloved myself, so gown had to be accessible first...

11. "Really...all I need is a bovie and a hemostat"

    ShariDCST replied to canesdukegirl's topic in Operating Room

    I used to scrub at a small county hospital with 4 OR's, one of which was a dedicated eye/cataract room. So we usually just counted the other three. There was a female GYN surgeon who absolutely had to...

12. The frightening ignorance of teens having babies

    ShariDCST replied to ShariDCST's topic in Ob/Gyn

    Nothing said here that I can see has been aimed at all of any particular group of individuals. No intent to paint a wide swath with a big brush actually exists. I do believe however that there are...

13. The frightening ignorance of teens having babies

    ShariDCST replied to ShariDCST's topic in Ob/Gyn

    Abstinence education has never functioned as intended, and given the social structure as it is, it never willl. Too many other things would have to chaange first, and those aren't going to happen...

14. The frightening ignorance of teens having babies

    ShariDCST posted a topic in Ob/Gyn

    Yes - I know. I'm just daily horrified by the apalling ignorance that young women and pre-teens are living in. Because of developing physical disabilities, I have been forced to leave the OR's and do...

15. What to do with your rings when you scrub?

    ShariDCST replied to AmyCardsNP's topic in Operating Room

    I love the alternative metals for wedding rings these days. If you check out ebay, you can find quality vendors on ther who make titanium and tungsten bands in every imaginable shape, thickness, width...