ShariDCST

ShariDCST

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 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...

  13. 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...

  14. 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...

  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...

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

    ShariDCST replied to AmyCardsNP's topic in Operating Room

    Have seen this numerous times myself, when they approached me to be gowned and gloved, there's a wedding band tied into the scrub pants string, gleaming in the lights. I made it a habit to remind them...

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

    ShariDCST replied to AmyCardsNP's topic in Operating Room

    I ran the loop of a sturdy rubber band through my rings, and then back through itself, in a larks head knot. Then used a sturdy safety pin to pin the other end of the loop with rings safely together...

  18. The dumbest thing you've ever heard...

    ShariDCST replied to AngelfireRN's topic in Patient, Colleague Relations

    Or enough

  19. The dumbest thing you've ever heard...

    ShariDCST replied to AngelfireRN's topic in Patient, Colleague Relations

    So, this female PCT was obviously old enough/grown up enough to be having periods of her OWN - makes me wonder (just for a second, mind you) how she manages her own "feminine protection" at those...

  20. Scrub tech school first or straight to nursing school?

    ShariDCST replied to Brandon72's topic in Operating Room

    Have you considered/investigated going to either Surgical Tech school or an ADN nursing program (Associate's Degree in either one) and then taking that 2 year degree to whatever college in your area...

  21. Broken cystoscopes...6 in one day

    ShariDCST replied to TammyCNOR's topic in Operating Room

    if SPD/CPD staff are responsible for processing them, might want to check the records and see #1, who signed off on doing them, and #2, if they have new processing staff members. Regardless of the...

  22. Things you've seen in the O.R that made your teeth crinch?

    ShariDCST replied to RNman09's topic in Operating Room

    call-back in the middle of the night, on a weekend (why are these always in the middle of the night on weekends???) some joker came in through the ed with vague complaints of "abdominal pain." to...

  23. OR Pet peeves

    ShariDCST replied to MsLeylaBar's topic in Operating Room

    "right - and you used up the last one we had/all of it when you did that - so now it's gone!" "in which parallel universe?" "must have been a different hospital - we haven't had any here for (fill...

  24. Reversing the bullying culture in nursing

    ShariDCST posted a topic in Operating Room

    just got an email from rnweb, and this article is front and center....... although this doesn't just apply to any one particular facet or specialty in nursing, there seems to be some pretty serious...

  25. surgeons often times regard OR nurses as damn people

    ShariDCST replied to sharlex's topic in Operating Room

    the first person who discovers how to do the last thing you mentioned effectively - "tell this surgeons to sleep for at least 5 minutes so they would get a clear mind...and please teach them to...