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Circulators- (or other nurses that take call) What kind of cool call schedules does your facility have?

I have seen hundreds of successful procedures and lives improved by us in the OR. The few that we have taken to ICU knowing that they were going to die, came from ICU knowing that surgery only improved their chance of survival by a small percent, an...

Just thinking of something that has changed since starting in the OR....... I have a cleaner umbilicus. Anyone agree?? If you don't, have you done your share of Laparoscopic procedures?

CRNA is more school and yes, anyone can obtained this status. You would be able to see first hand before going back to school if you are interested in this. Do I ever get bored? I have not been there long enough. I have been there about a year but I...

So far OR=0 and ICU = 1........ I work in the OR so let me get a point in for them. We have a set schedule....normally M-F with weekends and holidays off. I have to be on call evening/night during the week, one weekend day a month and one holiday a y...

We get a $1 for OR and $ for BSN

We are located in West Atlanta and have 5 hospitals and many doctor's offices. If you want to talk more, message me. If you apply and put my name on the application, I'd split my referral bonus.

Sorry to smile at your post but I have felt this way so many times. I have been in the OR for about 14 months but because I am the superuser for the OR Electronical chart I have only been in the rooms for about 7 months. I am finally feeling comforta...

Forgive the new nurse....but what is this??

I am going to have to try this!! Just too funny...

It is amazing to me how the cleanest looking person can have such nasty belly buttons.

We only wear them when the set-up is open in the room.

We are required to do less than 19 mins or we have to write and incident report stating the reason that we could not get it accomplished. It happens most of the tie but I hate it when the doc thinks that we have taken too long because it was a compl...

I have this problem and I work as an OR Nurse. I find it easier to control because we are able to wear the hair nets that are material and I have some made with a sweat band for the forehead. It works out great and I only notice sweat in other areas ...

I love that when I take a family member back to the OR suite, I have put the family at ease that I will do my very best to take care of their loved one. I love that they believe in me. I love to tell everyone that I am a nurse. Even though I have on...

We have had an outbreak in my LTC center. It is only considered Norwiegen in the immunocompromised whereas when a healthy adult becomes infected they would not progress to such a horrible stage (that being considered Norwiegan). The Elimite will trea...

You should get it in abut two weeks. The license itself is attached to a larger piece of paper. Congrats and welcome!

I understand this victory. I am a new nurse and new to the OR. It is wonderful that my patients are asleep when I have to cath them but we are on a time restraint. Everyone in the room is waiting for me to get it done and get the patient prepped. I u...

We graduated last Sept. and my best friend from school sung, "Do I Make You Proud", by Taylor Hicks. Everytime I hear that sone I cry. It was perfect and her voice with the voice of the piano player(also a student) was PERFECT. Congratulations! If y...

I am from GA and we get $3.00 per hr on call and then if we have to go in it is 1 1/2 times our pay. The biggest perk of this is that we have EVERY weekend off except for the one 24 hr day a month that we take call unlike other floors that have to w...

I work with them on a daily basis being as I am a new OR Nurse. I love what I do but you have to be really strong and determined to get through the orientation process. It is really difficult due to that fact that as nurse you are not really taught t...

C=RN.....That was my belief through my A&P and some of my Med-Surg. We were a new nursing program and ended up passing 32 out of 33 first try on the NCLEX and the other one passed on the 2nd try. I would hate to be the patient of some of our A st...

I graduated from nursing school in Sept. of last year and went straight into the OR. What a learning curve so far!! I was not taught that much in nursing school about the OR and have since learned a whole lot. We not only have the patient to take car...

Kaplan classroom review course worked for me! (That sounds like the commercial "Hooked on Phonics worked for me"). My immediate study buddies and I had about 6-10 different review books but I believe that the way the classroom instructors taught us w...

Also being a new nurse, what they taught in school about the reality shock is true. I love this more than I could tell you but it is a learning curve. I am a new OR nurse and that is unheard of where I am from. None of the hospitals around hire strai...