maeyken

maeyken

Operating Room (and a bit of med/surg)

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About maeyken

maeyken has 4 years experience and specializes in Operating Room (and a bit of med/surg).


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  1. What do you love about the OR? & what do you hate?

    One way to get a feel for the environment would be to see if you can shadow an OR nurse for a day- just to see what all goes into the job. For me, just observing a few cases during nursing school was...
  2. Changing jobs

    In the OR I work in, people who come new to the OR have to complete their orientation period and I think about 3mos full time, and then can go part time (that's about 6mos full time). We have been...
  3. Local without sedation

    We have a minor procedure area where we do small cases under local only. (no anesthetist, only one nurse and the surgeon). There is no option for sedation here, so if a surgeon thinks their patient...
  4. ANY outside cases go through ER whether they come from another hospital, a doctor's office, clinic, etc. If we're not ready for them, and they have a bed, then they go to the floor to wait for us.
  5. the only reason i can think of to stay at your hospital would be for seniority, but if you are just starting as an RN I don't know if you would retain any of that seniority. if you don't, there's no...
  6. Anesthesia Gas Making Me Tired in the OR???

    The only time I've been affected by gas in the OR is when we're inducing kids by mask. As they go through the excitation phase they wiggle a lot and sometimes we get more of the gas than they do! haha...
  7. How many hours can you work ?

    Wow, I didn't realize how lucky we are where I work. We're staffed 24/7, (for weekends/holidays- 3 on days, evenings, 2 on nights) The only call we do is one person from day shift will take call for...
  8. "TIME BACK" vs. Overtime $$ pay

    We too have 10h shifts, but we are staffed 24/7. We have a choice of whether to bank the time, or take the money. We do a fair amount of OT, but it is counted as such. Doesn't make management happy,...
  9. OR Lasers, Info Please

    All our fibers are disposable. I think we have a couple old re-usable (sterilized!!) ones kicking around. But NEVER unsterile! And as for leaving the laser unattended?!?! Huge NO NO! We have RNs...
  10. OR reference textbooks?

    We used Alexander's in my course... and the standards binder of
  11. Shoes?

    I am a Dansko convert as well. Just got my first pair about 4 months ago, and absolutely love them! What I found though, is that each pair fits differently, so try on several in your size if possible....
  12. I have a question to ask!

    Nope! :) Working for 2 teams, like you said, causes your attention to be split between the two teams, who are doing different things. It's not like you've got 2 surgeons working on the same hole......
  13. OR Shift Question

    We only have 8's and 10's, but we all rotate through
  14. Opening bypass cannulas

    In our facility, we don't do hearts, but in terms of opening items, the only items we DON'T hand to the scrub nurse are drapes, towels, gowns, and things like that. Everything else is handed directly...
  15. I have a question to ask!

    Our surgeons do one part at a time, so it's the same scrub nurse for the whole