dutch92602 replied to creinkent's topic in Operating Room
My point was that "elizabells" stated nothing was shown and the patient was fully draped. This is NOT so. Yes, there are many people in this world like Brittany Spears that don't care what they show...
dutch92602 replied to creinkent's topic in Operating Room
If you think this video stuff is ALL so inocent then go to the following: [This is just a sampling] http://www.or-live/hartfordhospital/1353.com http://www.or-live.com Revolutionary techniques in...
dutch92602 replied to creinkent's topic in Operating Room
This was NOT the case with a personal experience. The form was handed to the patient prior to when the nurses contacted the family member to join the patient in the OR holding area. Corrective lenses...
dutch92602 replied to creinkent's topic in Operating Room
Personally speaking, I would obtain all consent forms at least 1 week in advance of a scheduled elective surgery. This would allow proper time to read everything. That way any issues could be...
dutch92602 replied to creinkent's topic in Operating Room
A commonly used consent form patients' are asked to sign consenting to a blood transfusion also states in small print: Allow photos, videography, and others to be present and stand in The AORN also...
dutch92602 replied to creinkent's topic in Operating Room
Here is another issue about dignity and privacy and modesty in the OR. Go to: http://creston.com/downloads/pdf/featured_articles/business/or_live_university_hospital_uab.pdf Go to:...
dutch92602 replied to creinkent's topic in Operating Room
This "trust me you want the most skilled/talented people in your room." ..How is a patient to know if they have the best or worst team? They don't ...it is pot-luck for a
dutch92602 replied to creinkent's topic in Operating Room
Quoted from Maurice Bernstein, MD: "Without the patient, the surgeon could do nothing more but trim is own toenails. It is the patient who brings to the doctor the critical information in the form of...
dutch92602 replied to creinkent's topic in Operating Room
Whatever! Bonnie Denholm, RN MS CNOR Perioperative Nursing Specialist Center for Nursing Practice AORN It is and should be any patients right if they want to exercise
dutch92602 replied to creinkent's topic in Operating Room
An AORN representative stated that to me in an email. Practicality of it?... that is another issue if it is a long case. Most I assume are not. But, that is what the AORN states as a patient right...
dutch92602 replied to creinkent's topic in Operating Room
Why do you think that just because this is how you feel that every other person on earth feels the same? They don't. You are entitled to your opinion but it is how YOU feel not perhaps the way all...
dutch92602 replied to creinkent's topic in Operating Room
If a patient goes to a doctors office and has a personal procedure they are alert and aware of who is handling them. All I am saying here is that people have varying degrees of privacy issues. If a...
dutch92602 replied to creinkent's topic in Operating Room
i don't think patients want to know what kind of solution is going to be used!! come on. what they do care about is what is going to be done to their body and who is going to be doing what. maybe...
dutch92602 replied to creinkent's topic in Operating Room
Brilliant! I do not have the time at this moment to respond, but will plan to address your responses regarding these issue within a week. Thank you so very much for your wisdom. I will not plan on...
dutch92602 replied to creinkent's topic in Operating Room
You have every right to your opinion. I agree with what you say in general, however, I suggest you read the regs hanging on the walls of your Atlanta institution and consult with the administration on...
dutch92602 replied to Nursonegreat's topic in Operating Room
Try to enforce HIPAA! All these agencies that are suppose to protect the public, are governmental agencies..need I say more. The people employed at most of the agencies that license, inspect, and...
dutch92602 replied to creinkent's topic in Operating Room
It is not every whim or fancy. It is a patients' right not to be handled by the opposite sex. OR's should discuss this ahead of time with a patient and if it is elective surgery then a patient has the...
dutch92602 replied to creinkent's topic in Operating Room
This site is more than interesting. It really shows how much people are offended with being handled by the opposite sex with regard to intimate and personal procedures. Nurses, in my humble opinion,...
Have you seen an RN first assist work "solo" without the surgeon being in the OR or even having left the building. According to guidelines they are to function under the direct supervision of the...
dutch92602 replied to dutch92602's topic in Operating Room
Yes. 48 hrs post op he had a contusion that was all over his abdomen, around his hip, half way on the buttocks and down his thigh several inches and part way down his genital area. He looked like he...
dutch92602 replied to dutch92602's topic in Operating Room
The guidelines for California were downloaded from the website from the Board of Nursing listing the duties/responsibilites for a RNFA in CA. No where does it state that it is permissable for what...
dutch92602 replied to dutch92602's topic in Operating Room
If a patient was not sedated for a genital prep wouldn't it be standard for the procedure to be discussed prior to a female doing such a personal and sensitive (genital) procedure? It was a family...