BridgetJones

BridgetJones

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  1. Rant: Physician pagers!

    BridgetJones posted a topic in Operating Room

    Anyone else feel like they can't get through a case without spending half the time answering pages? Today I did an operative laparoscopy for a ruptured ectopic and I was on the phone for most of the...

  2. Do you write medication orders?

    BridgetJones replied to Ilovethe80s's topic in Operating Room

    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...

  3. More funny statements by surgeons

    BridgetJones replied to canesdukegirl's topic in Operating Room

    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...

  4. Which specialty in the OR?

    BridgetJones replied to ruralgirl08's topic in Operating Room

    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

  5. Death in the OR vs. ICU

    BridgetJones replied to straycat123's topic in Operating Room

    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...

  6. OR Pet peeves

    BridgetJones replied to MsLeylaBar's topic in Operating Room

    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

  7. What is the best shoes for the OR?

    BridgetJones replied to ShannonRN2010's topic in Operating Room

    I wear MBTs, the Mary Jane kind. They are SO

  8. OR Pet peeves

    BridgetJones replied to MsLeylaBar's topic in Operating Room

    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...

  9. Statements taken completely out of context...and are FUNNY!

    BridgetJones replied to canesdukegirl's topic in Operating Room

    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

  10. I've had it with bedside nursing! What else can I do?

    BridgetJones replied to PCU_RN9's topic in Nursing Career

    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...

  11. Why did you take up nursing? What's your story?

    BridgetJones replied to Joe V's topic in General Nursing

    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...

  12. Question about desaturation during induction

    BridgetJones replied to BridgetJones's topic in Certified Registered Nurse Anesthetist, CRNA

    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...

  13. Question about desaturation during induction

    BridgetJones posted a topic in Certified Registered Nurse Anesthetist, CRNA

    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...

  14. Question about desaturation during induction

    BridgetJones replied to BridgetJones's topic in Certified Registered Nurse Anesthetist, CRNA

    Makes

  15. Question about desaturation during induction

    BridgetJones replied to BridgetJones's topic in Certified Registered Nurse Anesthetist, CRNA

    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...

  16. Question about desaturation during induction

    BridgetJones replied to BridgetJones's topic in Certified Registered Nurse Anesthetist, CRNA

    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...

  17. Finally happy!

    BridgetJones replied to laurenicoleRN's topic in General Nursing

    I started off on an LTACH unit (sort of a long-term tele/ICU stepdown unit with vent wean, wound, and dialysis patients). After the first six months I was REALLY not enjoying it...all I wanted to do...

  18. q's- end of shift relief, meal/break relief timing, inservice relief

    BridgetJones replied to scrubs12's topic in Operating Room

    We are supposed to get a 15 min break am and pm (in reality they're more like 20), and for lunches the 8 hour people get 30min and the 12 hour people get 45. When it works that way most people are...

  19. Underwire bras in surgery

    BridgetJones posted a topic in Operating Room

    So I had a patient come in today for minor abdominal surgery and she was still wearing her bra. After she was asleep I took it off to be on the safe side (I know metal conducts electricity and we were...

  20. Please tell me I am not wrong!

    BridgetJones replied to GMSinCA's topic in Operating Room

    We have a neurosurgeon that will cover the field with a sterile towel, break scrub, and go downstairs to the cafeteria to eat. Everybody else just stays in the room and waits for him to get back! I...

  21. Underwire bras in surgery

    BridgetJones replied to BridgetJones's topic in Operating Room

    Thanks, that made a lot of sense! I had forgotten about the "path of least resistance" principle. It's been a while since high school physical science.

  22. Vent: The one thing I don't like about my job

    BridgetJones replied to PetiteOpRN's topic in Operating Room

    Well then, I'd like to see them set up for an emergency crani or do anything helpful during a difficult intubation. I've done both and I think the OR is easier in some ways, but I still have some long...

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

    BridgetJones replied to RNman09's topic in Operating Room

    Botched abortion at 20 weeks. The placenta and the baby's head were still in the

  24. Report from OR: What do you want to know?

    BridgetJones posted a topic in MICU, SICU

    Hi guys, I work as a circulating nurse in the operating room and we have to call report up to SICU when we send patients directly up there intubated. I have a hard time knowing what pertinent...

  25. Update- Got written up at work after ph. call from boss...

    BridgetJones replied to Epona's topic in General Nursing

    Actually, leaving this unit might be the best thing that could happen to your nursing career at this point. It sounds like the culture is completely toxic and nobody wants to be a positive mentor to...