MereSanity

So what is your process with instrumentation in the OR? Does every speck of blood need to be off the instruments before sending them to SPD? Or just the majority and then spray before sending them? Our SPD has started requiring us to scrub every spec...

Would you give a patient medication someone just handed to you? No? Would you want to check it yourself? I am a certified operating room nurse and I will not put my license or job on the line by placing my trust in doctors, anesthesiologists, nurses,...

The teal chloraprep is for people with darker skin tones. Easier to see after applied...not for fair complected people. You cannot see the orange on darker skin, you can however see the teal.

OK I need some input here. So I was always taught not to wipe down tables or spray instruments while the patient is in the room (seems like common sense), but now my hospital has decided that we can't break down the back table, change the trash (if w...

OK...I just need input here. We did an Anterior Hip Replacement and the consent only said Total Hip Replacement (no indication of anterior approach). I ticked off the Dr when I asked that "Anterior" be added to the consent. His argument was either...

Ours always say laparoscopic possible open, never just gallbladder removal because laparoscopic and open are such different procedures (same outcome) but definitely different.

Anterior however is supine and on a specialty table whereas a traditional hip replacement is lateral. Completely different positioning and couldn't be changed mid procedure like a chole or valve. And like it or not anterior is a laterality.

I would be interested too in this information!

I love the OR...great place for ADD personalities. Been there for almost 9 years now. I love one patient at a time, asleep patients, no real family interaction (OK, I suck I know). I love the atmosphere and personalities in the OR (and sometimes n...

If you work in surgery and get your RNFA (RN First Assist) you can indeed do these things. A BSN is suggested for an RNFA.

OK....stupid question time. I am CNOR certified...have over 6.5 years in the OR (2 in open heart). Yet I am still unclear on the CVOR thing...is there a "certification" that goes with this or is it just experience that makes you a CVOR nurse? Thank...

You gain so much more than you will ever "lose". It's the longest orientation of any specialty for a reason! I could reorient to the floor in a week...however no floor nurse could float to the OR without a ton of orientation! I love the OR!

Pinch the nose. I wear glasses and don't have an issue. Good luck!

I have heard you should use more than one agency. When one has nothing good another might. Keep options open. One traveler calls them her "pimps"...working to find her good assignments.

I had 7.5 years (8 now) and am CNOR certified. I have a lot of experience except I don't have neuro experience (I did open heart another team did neuro so I never did it before). That is a drawback for me but I told them straight up I don't do neur...

Yeah...the large can of body spray had no "lip" on it...took forever to get a grip on it.

I'm currently a travel nurse in the OR! Love it and get paid really well because it is such a specialized area. MereSanity BSN, RN, CNOR

I love the OR...been there for 8 years now. Call us trained monkeys but the trick is to think three steps ahead of the surgeon and scrub (helps to know how to scrub too). Also, know what all the equipment and instruments are, what they do, how they...

How bout weirdest thing up a rectum? I'm an OR nurse and have taken out a large can of body spray and a remote control from a guys rectum before.

Coblator is usually set lower...setting at 6-9 is normal.

I had this issue today (made me nuts)... Patient came down for surgery on LEFT leg...consent (made out on floor) says RIGHT leg (not like he didn't have a gunshot and wound vac already on the left leg but whatever)...anyway...pre op nurse crosses out...

The RN should pick up the patient...make all the necessary checks to see everything is filled out correctly...its your license...and we are the "final" check before the patient comes back to the room. Period. The circulating nurse is responsible fo...

Amiah Bastardo & Leviathan Rayne

Cool mottled skin, non responsive, no respirations = sure start CPR but dead is dead. And bringing them back after that much "down" time is not always the best thing.

I was gonna say coblator too.