I have been a nurse for 4 1/2 years. I started on ICU for 2 years and transferred to open heart surgery. I love the OR. I am now the OR educator at my facility. I will tell you that it is a...
I have been an OR nurse for 2.5 years. I work in Open Heart surgery and it is DEFINITELY NOT BORING!!!:redbeathe As stated above you have to think and make decisions on a dime. Every area in...
You mentioned SCIP, just curious what are the SCIP guidelines on prepping? We have several SCIP guidelines we follow, but I haven't heard anything about prepping. We use Betadine solution and scrub...
Stick with it and give yourself time to adjust :-) I have been in the OR for a little over 2 years now and it really does take a year to get into the swing of things and be confident in your...
At my facility we get $3/hr standby plus 1.5 if we get called in. I am on the heart team and each person is on call 14 days of the month (every other weekend). We get paid a one hour minimum when we...
We have some chloroprep that is tented so that you can see where you have prepped as opposed to the clear prep, but other than that I have never seen any other
We only wear masks in the actual room after sterile supplies are opened except for clean cases. I have been told the same thing about the patient not wearing mask because it is their germs. I have...
One of the great things about nursing is that there are so many different specialty areas inside and outside of the hospital setting. If the hospital setting is not for you maybe you could consider...
First off read you policy, second refer to your drug book and if you are still uncertain or don't have time to look it up call your pharmacist that is what they are there for. No question it stupid...
We have a RRT at our facility which includes an ICU nurse, Respiratory therapy, float nurse, and supervisor (if able). We have had it for about three years and I think that in the beginning the...
Yep that sucks!! However all part of the job. When I was orienting to ICU I was helping clean up a C-Diff patient and when we rolled her to her side and I started to clean she coughed and splattered...