lockheart678

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  1. Med Rec sheet

    I've recently received some training in pacu, which is something I've never done before, and our responsibility with the med rec sheet just doesn't seem right to me, so I wanted to know what others...
  2. Shoulder Injury

    I've dealt with very similar issues with my shoulders. My dominant side would flare up for a week at a time every few months, but then I injured my other shoulder lifting a patient. After two months...
  3. The OR is very physically demanding. We have to position our patients in so many different ways after they're asleep, and then we have to get them off the OR table at the end of the surgery. We work...
  4. I've been working in the OR for about 4 years now, ever since I graduated with my BSN. Over the past year and a half or so, I've been having some neurological problems here and there. It started out...
  5. Do nurses make the worst patients?

    Most patients I have had that were in the medical field were really easy. Very few of them worked in my specialty anyway, so I explained everything to them as if they knew nothing about the medical...
  6. does anyone regret this career?

    There are so many days I feel the same way. If I could find a job making the kind of money I do right now, I'd get out of nursing in a heartbeat and never look back. At the same time, I know I feel...
  7. Do Not Work Off The Clock, Nurses!

    I must be spoiled where I work. This has never been an issue for me, and if my workplace decided to make it an issue, I'd be gone in a second. Nowhere did I say I'll work for free, and if they don't...
  8. Why are Nurses so mean to each other?

    The attitudes on this site are no worse than in real life. Actually, I've noticed it seems like people are a lot nicer here than what I've experienced while working. The whole I'm better than you...
  9. Clipping hair

    Any place I've ever worked has always clipped in the OR after the patient is intubated. It is odd to me, especially when the first place I worked at even had signs in every OR stating that you should...
  10. Circulators recovering

    I've worked in a place where the OR nurse would only have to help recover a patient if only one pacu nurse was present, and in the entire time I worked there, I never saw that happen. I've also worked...
  11. PACU/OR nurse issues

    I'm an OR nurse and where I come from, if there's an after hours patient, they are either admitted directly to the floor or come from the ER, and whichever it happens to be, that's the department that...
  12. The two hospitals that offered me a job out of my recent interviews both asked me to describe a difficult situation (not necessarily with a coworker) and how I handled it. I think that was the hardest...
  13. Quitting during Orientation!!?? Help!!

    Be very careful with what you do. Like others have said, what if you start your new job and you hate it too? I'm going through a very similar problem right now, and one month into my new job that was...
  14. Traveling and homebuyer tax credit

    I've been wanting to travel for a while now, but I bought a house in 2010 and qualified for the first-time homebuyer tax credit, which states you have to have that home as your primary residence for...
  15. Incorrect instrument counts

    That scrub tech was out of line and your preceptor should have backed you up and covered everything with you that you're supposed to do in a situation like that. I've seen a lot of people who were too...
  16. New job, questions

    I've always worked in a teaching facility, but I just recently went to a small hospital that is totally different. Where I come from, anesthesia is not to leave the room for anything. Here, they'll...
  17. chloroprep.. good after sponge touches something else?

    I wouldn't take the chance and I'd have done exactly what you did. If he doesn't like it, he can get over it. You're there to advocate for that patient and that's exactly what you did. Plus, residents...
  18. I LOVE OR but i think i am too soft for the OR

    Don't let those feelings get the best of you. You're still new, and everyone goes through that when they're first learning. The longer you're in the OR, the better it will get. I've always been a shy...
  19. I've gotten a few questions from my family, but nothing really major. I've been lucky to escape the random people that see me in scrubs as well. Most of my coworkers have stories that involve being at...
  20. Holiday rotations...

    At my hospital, management puts up sign up sheets for each holiday and all staff are required to work one major and one minor holiday each year. We must also take call for one major and one minor. If...
  21. Covering 3-11 shift for a sick call.

    It sounds like they need to hire another person for 3-11. My hospital runs into the same problems whenever someone on 11-7 calls in. Sometimes they'll actually make the effort to find someone to...
  22. Teaching vs private facility

    For those of you who have worked in both, what are the differences between being at a teaching hospital and a private facility? I've only worked at a teaching hospital before, and I'm curious to know...
  23. Nursing listed as 4th on a list of fun jobs.

    The least they could do is talk to people in the profession to get some kind of idea of what it's really like. They make it sound like nurses just sit around and socialize with the patients while...
  24. Daylight thinks we do nothing on night shift

    That sounds about right. I've gotten yelled at by a day shifter before for not having everything ready for a case, when I was in cases my entire shift and didn't have time to do it. One other problem...
  25. Patient falls off operating room table

    One of the first things I learned when I went to the OR was to never leave that patient's side at the end of a surgery. You have no idea how they will wake up, and as small as those beds are, it would...