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There is a book called Instrumentation for the Operating Room by Shirley Brooks Tighe. It has a lot of pictures of the instruments. If you know anyone in the sterile processing department, they also have a lot of instrument catalogs there, and usuall...

I've worked in both teaching and private hospitals and yes, I really prefer the teaching ones because there are plenty of help. Wherever you work, please don't compromise the patient's safety. I would usually ask my surgical tech to either get the st...

Having worked in the OR for years, have you developed any pet peeve? Stuff co-workers do that bugs you...daily situations that irritate you? I'm really easy going most of the time but on a looong busy day, there are things that bugs me. * anesthesio...

Here's a few threads about this- https://allnurses.com/operating-room-nursing/lose-nursing-skills-340492.html https://allnurses.com/canadian-nurses/need-advice-662985.html https://allnurses.com/operating-room-nursing/fulltime-prn-elsewhere-660895.ht...

There are no openings in the OR in your area? In my opinion, it's really okay to go into the OR right away and not waste your time in other specialties. If you wish to do other specialties first, it really doesn't matter which.

I don't know if your courses will be credited. Why don't you contact the community colleges around Seattle and ask. Getting into nursing school here is very competitive so you might not get in right away. In the mean time, check which ones are credit...

The hospital will have to invest in supplying all kinds of bins. A green committee was established in our OR probably 2 years ago and these people initiated everything from tracking down how much the OR saves while doing this, to doing a trial in 2 ...

I work in a pediatric OR so 75% of us nurses, surgeons and techs wear bright colored hats with all kinds of designs. The patients and families love our hats. I know there are some people who don't change their hats on a daily basis but no one is acti...

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I think you made the right decision. It is always a big plus if you know how to circulate or scrub many procedures especially that you are planning to become a travel nurse. That only makes you marketable. Don't worry about leaving a nice comfy job...

We do timeouts in our facility the way GadgetRN said. The surgeon is responsible for initiating it. Everyone in the room stops and gather around the patient. We actually all introduce ourselves first and state our roles before reading the patient's a...

Is that their norm at that hospital? That is certainly going too fast. I would understand if there were just so short of staff that day that they would pull you out of orientation but that is so unfair to you. You deserve many more weeks of orientati...

I wasn't planning on it. I was a nurse manager at an LTC-Rehab Unit and found an ad in the paper from the Level 1 Trauma Center in the city looking for experienced RN's who wanted to try OR nursing. I applied, was one of the 6 who got the job and y...

Only thing that would help squeaking would be to wear shoe covers. I like fitflops. They are so comfortable. I use the goghs. http://www.soleprovisionsshop.com/Articles.asp?ID=142

"They don't have to wear their patient ID bracelet" Wow, really? That's a safety issue. They are really allowed to get into the OR without it? I used to work in an adult OR but have been doing Peds for about 6 years now. I understand that there are...

Our OR needs a couple of nurses, 1 year current experience needed though. Sorry new grads. Seattle area.

Msancheeze, I PM'd you.

Sorry, I can't seem to find any tab to delete the post. But yeah, I just want our staffing back to what it used to be.

Congratulations!!! Any tips? I'm thinking of taking the exam next year. What books did you use?

Just try it, maybe you will like it. I am used to big, long cases and that's the way I like it. When I was a travel nurse, one assigment was in a surgery center and my 1st day, I have never felt so tired in my life. It was just non stop in and out o...

Our OR morning huddle starts at 0700 so most of us come to work around 6:45-6:55 to change in the locker room. Same with the off shift staff, they come in ready to work at 0900 and 1100. We always get a 15 min break in the morning, breaks start at 0...

i have 3 questions: 1 - how to gain more experience in the or as a nursing student? my workplace has employed many new grads before in the or, most of them did like a 3 month clinical option on their last year of nursing school. is there anything lik...

A lot of US Hospitals utilize surgical technicians so they do the scrubbing. It really depends on what hospital you will be working at, and how many surgical techs they have. In my OR, the RN's only get to scrub when techs are short. The circulating...

I don't think OR's are hiring LPNS nowadays, not in my area anyway. In my OR, I know 3 LPNS but they have been working here for 20+ something years, one is working as a surgical tech so I'm guessing she's had some kind of on the job training many yea...

Hospital provided and laundered scrubs for us. We are allowed to wear cloth hats and we don't have to wear bonnets over them.