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5 yrs OR, ASU Pre-Op 2 yr. ER

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    Soooo, you're observing in the Operating Room (O.R.)...

    Marie_LPN, RN posted a topic in Operating Room

    A couple of tips and such to help: Dress Code: Change into OR scrubs first thing when you get there, AFTER letting the charge nurse know who are, what school you're with, and such. This includes a...
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    ChloraPrep Allergies?

    Marie_LPN, RN posted a topic in Operating Room

    Recently (appx. 3 months ago), one of our orthopod groups decided to switch to ChloraPrep for all of their Duraprep-prep cases, after reading an article on its effectiveness. But they're noticing that...
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    Speech Class Interruptions (rant)

    Marie_LPN, RN posted a topic in General Students

    Took a speech class, since every once in awhile, i have to do presentations on new equipment and supplies for orthopedics, and i figured that this class might give me pointers. First day of class,...
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    Roll Call, LPN to RN Students!!!

    Marie_LPN, RN posted a topic in LPN to RN

    Stop by, introduce yourself, say a little about yourself.
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    Bouffant Surgical Caps

    Marie_LPN, RN posted a topic in Operating Room

    I'm looking for websites that sell the bouffant surgical caps. I did a search on Yahoo and came up with several sites, but the majority have no variety in patterns or colors. Was wondering if anyone...
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    Petit Mal seizures in adults over age 25?

    Marie_LPN, RN posted a topic in General Nursing

    Anyone ever seen, know, or heard of any adults that have petit mal
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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
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    For Those that Wear Support Stockings...

    Marie_LPN, RN posted a topic in General Nursing

    Do you wash them on the delicate cycle in the washer? (and avoid the dryer) I'm getting tired of handwashing these
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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...
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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...
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    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...
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    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
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    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
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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...
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    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
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    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,...
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    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
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    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...
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    Scary Old School Surgical Tools

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

    Makes me glad i'm not a
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    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
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    West Virginia Nursing School Links

    Marie_LPN, RN posted a topic in General Nursing

    West Virginia Nursing Schools http://www.healthguideusa.org/west_virginia_nursing_schools.htm
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    How about a thread for baby names you liked?

    Marie_LPN, RN posted a topic in Ob/Gyn

    What are some of the names you've heard pts. name their babies that you liked? (I'll add my own later, i need to check on the spelling of two of
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    Soooo, you're observing in the Operating Room (O.R.)...

    Marie_LPN, RN posted a topic in General Students

    A couple of tips and such to help: Dress Code: Give some serious thought into what attire you will wear into that dept. if you're allowed to wear something other than your clinical outfit on your OR...
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    No one's hiring LVN's these days

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

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