Marie_LPN, RN LPN, RN

Marie_LPN, RN is a LPN, RN and specializes in 5 yrs OR, ASU Pre-Op 2 yr. ER.

Marie_LPN, RN's Latest Activity

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   do you prefer long or short surgeries?

   Marie_LPN, RN replied to ajaxgirl's topic in Operating Room

   Depends on why the case is long. If the surgeon drags his rear/doesn't know what they're doing (we're blessed to have one of those), then i'm wishing for a day of fast cases.
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   Surgical reprocessing

   Marie_LPN, RN replied to gnom's topic in Operating Room

   Part of our CPD training is OR observation, and another week-long observation once a year as an 'inservice.' It never fails, that at least one time within the week, there's an incident where the indicator strip is missing, instruments are 'lost', et...
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   OR Pet peeves

   Marie_LPN, RN replied to MsLeylaBar's topic in Operating Room

   That kickbucket got kicked to the other side of my table. Aside from the risk of injury, i don't like someone stepping between me and my table to dig for sponges. I can see the buket just fine from the other side of the table, and keep my feet out ...
4. 

   longest surgery?

   Marie_LPN, RN replied to love2shop's topic in Operating Room

   Sounds like someone we used to have here that did those. Sick as it sounds, his fem-pops were called fem-pop-chops because RARELY was the pt. NOT oming back for an amputation, despite the hours of surgery.
5. 

   Overwhelming job! Oh my gosh!

   Marie_LPN, RN replied to allie83's topic in Operating Room

   12 weeks is nowhere near an appropriate length for orientation.
6. 

   LPN v ST v RN

   Marie_LPN, RN replied to Quiara's topic in Operating Room

   Depends on the facility. Some place will hire new grads, others want prior med-surg experience.
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   OR Pet peeves

   Marie_LPN, RN replied to MsLeylaBar's topic in Operating Room

   I stopped getting that when i replied with either "well, people in hell want ice water, also" or "well, grab a mop, and get to cleaning, this room doesn't clean by itself." I've also used this one "i'm going to PEE sometime today, and right now is a...
8. 

   Break room and refrigerators

   Marie_LPN, RN replied to nursinadream's topic in Operating Room

   Fridge gets cleaned at 10 pm, you either have your stuff out or it's gone. Sounds strict, but the fridge situation got ridiculous, and came down to this.
9. 

   Is it me?

   Marie_LPN, RN replied to keepitreal's topic in Operating Room

   The way we train people is to give them the same preceptor as often as possible throughout their training. We've seen that this helps in training because 1) the preceptors have years of experience, years of problem solving, etc. 2) it helps form ...
10. 

    What's the easiest job in the operating room?

    Marie_LPN, RN replied to linda2097's topic in Operating Room

    I'd never say that any job is easy in the OR, the OR is not where the easy jobs are.
11. 

    Timeout univercal protocol

    Marie_LPN, RN replied to lavendar's topic in Operating Room

    Let's not forget the foghorn voice used to shut ppl up so they will listen to the Time-Out (my beginning line, which JC liked, is "Ladies and Gentlemen, i WILL have your attention NOW because this is our official Time-Out, our pt.'s name is.............
12. 

    Scary Old School Surgical Tools

    Marie_LPN, RN replied to Anxious Patient's topic in Operating Room

    Makes me glad i'm not a male.
13. 

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

    Marie_LPN, RN replied to staceyp413's topic in Operating Room

    Outpatient surgery check-in (ASC) first, whether they are going home that day or not, that's the 'default' receiving area.
14. 

    No one's hiring LVN's these days

    Marie_LPN, RN replied to sweetface's topic in LPN-RN

    There's been plenty of jobs in various fields in my area. for LPNs.
15. 

    OR Pet peeves

    Marie_LPN, RN replied to MsLeylaBar's topic in Operating Room

    I usually say "Your colleuges get paged to death, maybe one of them has a solution, ask 'em". The only one that we have who does that (yeah we're missing out average quota i'm sure lol) is fresh out of school and whines about being on call. Uh, the...