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you know what, i dunno if this could work at your unit... it may be possible that you can do sort of a "self-scheduling" system "among" your staff members. its like asking each other what schedule one would prefer, then probably you could come up wit...

personally, i doubt that you can find one.. if there is, it'll cost you. the manager is suppose to be equipped with the knowledge and skills in scheduling and staffing. there are a lot of variable involved that a computer program is very much limite...

right on! this is something that is happening elsewhere - in my institution alone it happens. we dont allow friends/families inside our PACU for various reasons (some mentioned in this thread). but sometimes, for fear of being reported to the upper ...

Basically, the scrub nurse is part of the sterile surgical team. he assists the surgeons by handing over instruments, sutures etc that are needed intra-op. the scrub nurse is responsible in maintaining sterility within the sterile field and assuring ...

I do. i scrub, circulate and do PACU. sometimes after circulating i do the post-op of the patient if i dont have anything else to do ...

just got off from that shift for a month! we are a OR-DR-PACU complex, 3 RNs are at work at these three areas.

i went straight to OR after graduating. so far i have no problems with skills. with regards to ICU training, you may have to crosstrain to smoothen a transition.. btw, have you not considered PACU nursing? in my area with are crosstraining as OR-DR-P...

you must be referring to the old curriculum, the one that you're under.. the new curriculum looks good. the implementation will remain questionable, or rather we still have to wait how it will affect the current nursing students

have experienced this myself.. i have been complained simply i explained to the patient..and another relative the hospital's policy.. and as far as i can remember, that is one of the patient's bill of rights... but with regards to the condition of th...

exactly! 4am christmas day (today)...we got a call from the ER of a single stab wound that have his intestines eviscerated...that was when we were about to take a nap for we have just finished doing "E" C-section... in less than 5 minutes the patien...

or any "Out-patient" surgical clinics maybe... i heard one of my co-worker's friend works at this type of OR clinics. the advantage: just working from morning till afternoon, no weekend duties.. but i still think there is no substitute for the real ...

thanks, redlabel... its sad, i dont think anyone else can do anything about it as of now...it'll fall into deaf ears.. however, the PNA and PRC has so much power to do something about this, and i believe they are addressing the problem now. i have kn...

enjoy!

good luck!

add to that... nail polish and dentures! the patient was not told of the importance of removing these things, so the client was able to conceal that she had dentures... no excuse for the nail polish!

nice post! some people think of OR nurses, are below-average compared to "other nurses" because all we do is assist. we only handle 1 (or probably 2 for the circulating). we dont do any nursing procedures (not that much)... and more other reasons.. t...

it'll help if you work out your core muscles very well (strengthening the lower back and abdominals will help since we do long standing or too much lifting). after just working it out for almost a month, i noticed improvements. do whole body workout,...

when i graduated BSN and became RN, i tried to look for a hospital job immediately... but as i was waiting for calls, i applied for a part-time teaching job to at least have a little source of income while waiting for a fulltime hospital job... and ...

lamazeteacher: most probably served other people as well and it will still... these residents are really good, i have served them on many trauma cases and they're really good. but as you have said, its what learning institutions are all about, try...

amazing! yeah,,sometimes families dont get that chance... i work as an OR nurse, and whenever we receive trauma cases, i dont get to see the family along with the stretcher..i wonder if they had that same bitter-sweet moment...sometimes people can e...

i still start at the incision site, that is i assume that they will e cutting way above the necrotic area...then work my way down.. Crux: thanks for the info.

same here if i prep it myself. however, sometimes its the resident surgeon who would want to do the prepping. im relatively new as an OR nurse, for about a year and a half now, so im not really familiar with what other hospitals use for their preppin...

New here at this forum... but been browsing for a long time since i was student.. anyway, got my first job as an OR nurse... and cross-trained as a DR-PACU nurse since it is just one complex.. so now after a year, its either im @ the OR, DR, or PACU...