I have recently moved to the OR. I am gaining confidence in my abilities and my team members. Though it has its ups and downs (my feet are killing me) I really like what I am doing. There is so...
Our facility is small and is flexible enough to do these requests with enough advance notice. Certainly for emergent cases, there is no promises made. So, I asked the boss about this and she said I...
On any given day, there are some MDAs supervising and some who are not. In this case, the patient asked for this particular MDA only and his surgeon also wrote "Dr Q - only" on the surgery order...
We are an ASC, not a teaching hospital. Our consent form two pages and very specific, having blocks for both the attending's name and his/her assistant (SFA or other). The second page is for the...
There was nothing fraudulent concerning charting, but it was beyond telling them they wouldn't get a foley. One was promised a specific make-up of the surgical team and the other was promised a...