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?

   maeyken replied to blueberry21's topic in Operating Room

   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

   maeyken replied to FlyOR's topic in Operating Room

   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

   maeyken replied to linda2097's topic in Operating Room

   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. Need your OR knowledge.....patient from clinic or other facility to OR???

   maeyken replied to staceyp413's topic in Operating Room

   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. What to do after graduation- I really want to be an OR nurse

   maeyken replied to kfarinato's topic in Operating Room

   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???

   maeyken replied to e-dice's topic in Operating Room

   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 ?

   maeyken replied to OR male nurse's topic in Operating Room

   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

   maeyken replied to Paws4K9s's topic in Operating Room

   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

   maeyken replied to mcmike55's topic in Operating Room

   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?

    maeyken replied to Ordered Chaos's topic in Operating Room

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

11. Shoes?

    maeyken replied to Aneroo's topic in Operating Room

    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!

    maeyken replied to Scrubby's topic in Operating Room

    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

    maeyken replied to techraider77's topic in Operating Room

    We only have 8's and 10's, but we all rotate through

14. Opening bypass cannulas

    maeyken replied to lilla_fjaril's topic in Operating Room

    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!

    maeyken replied to Scrubby's topic in Operating Room

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