cornpoohRN

cornpoohRN has 2 years experience and specializes in Operating Room, Ortho, Neuro, Trauma.

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1. Asking someone to leave your room during a case...

   cornpoohRN replied to cornpoohRN's topic in Operating Room

   HA! Funny you say that, she reported ME!!!. I went to my director the next morning to let her know of the incident (we all work on evening shift) and she told me that she had already gotten an e-mail...

2. Asking someone to leave your room during a case...

   cornpoohRN replied to cornpoohRN's topic in Operating Room

   Yea, well I wanted to tell her "well you're not a RN so you don't know how this end

3. Asking someone to leave your room during a case...

   cornpoohRN posted a topic in Operating Room

   has anyone ever had to ask someone to leave their room during a case while you were circulating? it happened to me this week. i had a scrub tech come in and try and take over my room and change things...

4. OR nurse as a new grad

   cornpoohRN replied to judycollingwell's topic in Operating Room

   Many OR's are offering new grad residencies. Start looking now for hospitals near you. Look for Periop 101 courses or Versant residencies. They both are great. Good

5. What's in your pockets?

   cornpoohRN replied to tokmom's topic in General Nursing

   I work in the OR and everyone always makes fun of me for what I keep in my pockets but who do you think they come to over and over I wear a scrub jacket with 2 pockets. Left pocket has extra...

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

   cornpoohRN replied to RNman09's topic in Operating Room

   I saw a general surgeon remove gobs of duct tape from a young guys stomach that he had

7. How long are O.R. shifts?!

   cornpoohRN replied to BigTimeNurse's topic in Operating Room

   I work 4 10's, 11a-9p, M-Th. Off F, Sa & Su. I love my shift! No early mornings and things are already happening when I get there. I do lunch reliefs then circulate afternoon cases then cases that...

8. How to become an OR nurse

   cornpoohRN replied to 1102RN's topic in Operating Room

   Just apply. See if the hospital you work in offers perioperative residencies. It is very intense in the OR but once you are there you will be a forever OR

9. counts question

   cornpoohRN replied to trixie_s_CNOR's topic in Operating Room

   We use a white board for the initial count and add as needed throughout the case. Our intra op record just has 4 places to document where the two people who did the initial count (names of the...

10. How do you feel about this?

    cornpoohRN replied to 1TachyRN's topic in General Nursing

    At first I thought I was reading an old article that was posted on AN.com. There was a thread that mentioned hospital's that are already doing...

11. Surgical Masks

    cornpoohRN posted a topic in Operating Room

    I have a question.......... In our OR, we seem to have 8 or 9 different types of masks. Since I started my oreintation 8 weeks ago, I have started to break out in the areas where the mask cups my...

12. Tourniquet Time

    cornpoohRN replied to bettyboop08's topic in Operating Room

    Our machine calculates total time the machine was inflated at the end-no matter how many times we deflated and went back up, 2 or 3 times. Time is time. I agree with everyone else...you are signing...

13. Perioperative Residency...........

    cornpoohRN replied to cornpoohRN's topic in Operating Room

    Well 4 weeks into my residency and I am spending most of the time in the OR. I am completely overwhelemed! I am so glad that I have a long orientation because there is no way I could get all this in a...

14. Not sure what to think...

    cornpoohRN replied to MrNurseOR's topic in Operating Room

    The comments have to stop. There are EEOC laws and every institution enforces them. I am sure that their HR department and corporate attorneys would dookey in their drawers if they knew that was...

15. Overwhelming job! Oh my gosh!

    cornpoohRN replied to allie83's topic in Operating Room

    I am a new OR nurse on orientation (4 weeks) and we get 22 week Residency plus a 9-12 month OR orientation. If I knew I was going to be on my own in 8 weeks, I would stress out too! I have not even...