lenawa

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1. experience needed?

   lenawa replied to oldfaithful's topic in Telephone Triage

   I agree, the wider the experience, the better. I started doing tele-triage nursing 4 months ago and, wow, what a learning curve. I had 2 years of med-surg, then 3 years in the O.R. before taking this...

2. Heart Call Pay

   lenawa replied to Galatea's topic in Operating Room

   I am on the cardiac service for our OR. our staff is not technically cross trained, but we are frequently floated to other services to replace sick calls. every evening there are 2 staff that work...

3. Weekend/Night OR crews...

   lenawa replied to ShirleyM's topic in Operating Room

   I work in a trauma centre. M-F we have 9 RN's/ ORT's (usually only 1 or 2 ORT's) working from 3-11 then 2 RN' s or 1 RN and 1 tech on from 11-7 PLUS 1 on call for Gen/plastics/vasc, 1 on call for...

4. Surgical Instrument Information

   lenawa replied to rnmomof1's topic in Operating Room

   I recently took an O.R course and any textbooks or websites that i saw with names of instrumentation didn't help me that much. i found it much better just to practice with a partner asking for things...