ShariDCST

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 something - but my name isn't "dianah"....

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 first rule we learned was to not lock your knees whi...

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 "job hopper" ~ I worked as a "temp" or Traveling Te...

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 to anyone, and putting their necks out for troubl...

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 mean. Obviously if some weekends have been scheduled,...

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 procedure very awkward and clumsy, and would have served ...

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 effects.

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 concerning who takes call, how long, how often, wh...

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 is the method we were taught by a seasoned OR nurse...

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 (after the sterile towel of course) and gloves we...

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 have every posssible instrument in the building f...

-Working where I do now (since having to retire from the ORs due to several physical limitations which seem to want to stick around permanently) I got a call the other night from an obviously middle-aged sounding woman who needed to speak promptly wi...

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 something less strenuous. My last two years were ...

"...wonderful parents..." ????????? That's the most puzzling part of your statement, actually......time to cash yourself a "reality check.":rolleyes:

She did inform some of the inqusitive folk - "The dash ain't silent!" Too bad she wasn't - silent, that is........

Oh for goodness sakes - it's "La-ah"! Can't you spell?? :rolleyes:

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 more than should exist of young teens - male and fema...

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 either. What I mean by that statement is this. Abstin...

Most of these make me wonder just how foolish and self-centered these parents (mostly moms I see) have to be to hate their kids that much?? I mean, to be knowingly pregnant for 8 months at least and not even have something as basic as a name picked o...

The mother said, when asked about the oddd name, "The dash isn't silent!" Too bad the mother wasn't......

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 and design. If you're not sure which to try, tita...

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 "Don't forget your wedding band when you're all d...

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 inside the cup of my bra. The rubber band is gentle...

Or enough chlorinators...........

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 times?? Hoping it's some kind of pad - I can't imagine...