BridgetJones

BridgetJones

LTAC, OR

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About BridgetJones

BridgetJones has 3 years experience and specializes in LTAC, OR.


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  1. Do you write medication orders?

    Not sure why you would need to when the physician is the one who is actually administering the medication to the patient. We just chart what meds we dispensed to the field. X-ray and specimen orders...
  2. More funny statements by surgeons

    Maybe not totally on topic with this thread but I thought it was funny... Surgeon: Can we have a couple stools over here, please? (Referring to the rolling things you sit on.) ::pause:: I like the...
  3. Which specialty in the OR?

    I'm in peds and I love it! I get lots of variety doing neonates up to 18-year-olds, and everything from cranis and spines to ear
  4. Death in the OR vs. ICU

    I've had one patient code and die in the OR (s/p AAA repair, general surgeon wanted to do a "decompressive laparotomy"). I had only been off orientation a short time and the nurse in charge was not an...
  5. OR Pet peeves

    When anesthesia asks you to get them another bag of LR when you're all the way across the room doing something else. Seriously, if the patient is stable they can get it
  6. What is the best shoes for the OR?

    I wear MBTs, the Mary Jane kind. They are SO
  7. OR Pet peeves

    When a surgeon or resident's pager goes off the second they scrub and they want you to fish it out of their back pocket and answer it before you do anything else. Surgeons who bug me about answering...
  8. Statements taken completely out of context...and are FUNNY!

    Oh no Canes, no offense whatsoever! I was wishing I had something funny to post too, but I don't right at the moment. It takes more than a joke about screwing to offend an OR
  9. I've had it with bedside nursing! What else can I do?

    Have you thought about the OR? One patient at a time, you always have lift help and there are a lot more options for shifts...lots of 8-hour days available. :-) Even better is peds OR where most of...
  10. Why did you take up nursing? What's your story?

    I was seriously obsessed with the show ER when I was in high school and I wanted to be just like Abby Lockhart. Don't know if I thought I would snag Noah Wyle or what, but here I am in nursing (but...
  11. It's been a while now, but I'm pretty sure there was no end title CO2. As far as anesthesiologists doing cases by themselves goes, we have a couple "cowboys" but most of them are really good about...
  12. Yeah, it was an uncuffed ET and the kid had some lung problems and had come down on bi-pap. I guess I was just uncomfortable because a lot of the other staff aren't confident in this particular...
  13. I called into a room I had just been in where I knew there was a peds high risk anesthesiologist and asked if she could please come in and make sure things where ok. I felt bad asking her to leave the...
  14. Hi everyone, I'm a ciculator in the OR and I was hoping to run a situation I had recently past some anesthesia professionals. I was doing a case on a 3 or 4 kilo NICU kid with some chronic lung issues...