VictoriaG

VictoriaG

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  1. Love in the OR

    I recently entered into an intense relationship at work with an anesthetist I have worked with for 3 years. We have always been close, and have worked together as partners, so we thought no one would notice the change in our relationship. Wrong! ...
  2. University of Phoenix online?

    U of P is very big in West Michigan because they make it so easy time-wise to finish your BSN. Their online program is expensive, about $20,000 for ADN to BSN, but I guess it's the same all over. I have several friends and associates who have gone t...
  3. Love in the OR

    Ah ha! I was wondering when someone would pick up on that. Yes, he is married, has been separated over 2 years, but hasn't made that public. I'm sure I'll really get crucified now that I have admitted this overwhelming fact. Ok, guys, bring it on.
  4. union nursing

    In the small rural hospital where I work, all of us would be ground to dust by our control freak CEO without Union protection. Anyone who is anti-Union does not understand what Unionization has done to prevent exploitation of American workers. Unio...
  5. why did you become a nurse

    I always thought I wanted to be a nurse, but had mo idea why. Instead I went into cosmetology, married well, lead a frivolous life for a while. When I was 26, my dad and I went to thre hospital to visit my grandfather, who had just been diagnosed w...
  6. Not a "people person" - problem?

    I have always been a notorious extrovert, but it was an act, a way of hiding something painful. When I first became a nurse 12 years ago, I held myself back from the patients, just as I held myself back from people who loved me. Gradually, I became...
  7. help-need questions to ask!!

    I was an L&D nurse for 8 years, crosstrained to PP and NRY but never felt adept in them, L&D was my specialty. They want you to do PEDS too? That is asking alot, PEDS is a whole other specialty. If you have a desire to try OB, go for it. ...
  8. opening up nursing the profession to spanish speakers?

    Wow, this topic sure got us all stirred up! IMHO, communication and the art thereof, is the most important talent and responsibility of a good nurse. All day long, every day we work, we are expected to communicate effectively to doctors, to patient...
  9. What's up with RNs who refuse to scrub?

    Geez, you people are tough! I am a very good circulator, but I have no desire to scrub. I do not want to stand at attention in one spot for hours with my wrists screaming in pain, thank you very much. While I am getting $24/hour doing what I do be...
  10. Can Circulating Nurse Sit?

    Knit and crochet????!!!!! I am on the floor laughing! Never in my life have I done anything so unprofessional, and I am not an AORN type either. I can just imagine Dr. Z.'s face if I walked into the OR with my quilting. I sit every chance I get, a...
  11. Terms of endearment

    I, too, have an OB background and that is why I use "terms of endearment" when my patients need it: when they are frightened or out of control. I agree, it seems a bit condecsending during a blood draw!
  12. Excelsior College

    My daughter was just discharged from the Navy where she was a hospital corpsman and EMT. Before she enlisted, she had most of her pre-reqs for nursing school completed, and is now considering getting her ADN through Excelsior. Are there any of you ...
  13. not sure to go for lpn first or rn

    The LPN's at our hospital make almost $10/hour less than the RN's and are very limited in what they are allowed to do. They cannot give IV meds, work charge, start IV's, or take Dr's orders. About the only area where LPN's can work charge in this s...
  14. Nursing Shortage

    Yes Jackie, there really is a nursing shortage, and it is not only the patients who are suffering because of it. I work in Michigan where unions keep nursing wages and benefits up almost where they should be. But at any given time, almost half our ...
  15. Who LIKES their job???

    I love my job as OR nurse supervisor, but it didn't happen overnight. Eight years L&D (the thrill was gone), three years perinatal bereavement counselor where I brought the families' sorrows home with me, brief stints in home health and med-surg...
  16. I used to be a bereavement counselor until I reached the point where I could not leave my work at work. I became so immersed in the grief of others that it really screwed up my life. I have since changed specialties, but I still feel caring and com...
  17. Question For Or Nurses

    Perhaps this will clarify the situation. The circulator RN is in charge of the room. She is the watchkeeper, she is ultimately responsible to the patient, even to the point of stopping the doctor when he in any way endangers the patient (ie. refusi...
  18. diprivan

    I am a whiz at conscious sedation, doing sometimes as many as 7 cases /day. Our docs don't like their patients to moan, so my consciously sedated patients are pretty much unconscious. It took me a long time to learn to titrate Demerol and Versed t...
  19. Comparing Wages in the OR setting

    I work at a rural hospital in Michigan. My base pay is $22.96/hour which is about what I was making 4 years ago n Lansing. I make an additional $1.10/hour charge nurse pay and only $1.60/hour call pay. Still, with call, I make about $55,000/year w...
  20. Would OR nursing be a good fit for me?

    Not one of the above posts sound as if they have any real OR experience. I am charge nurse in a small rural 2 room OR suite that does anywhere from 5-12 surgeries a day with 3 RN's, 3 techs, and 2 nurse anesthetists. OR can be all warm fuzzies on ...
  21. Why?

    I spent 8 years as an L&D nurse in a teaching hospital before I came to surgery in a small rural hospital. A few months ago, I was called in at 4 am for a stat section. There is no such thing as a crash section here, many of our staff , includi...
  22. RN to MD....possible or not?

    A doc I work with was an LPN, RN, PA before he finished his internal med residency at age 46. He is mean and nasty and downright abusive to the patients and nurses, He must have been a rotten nurse.
  23. Funny Names for Nurses

    In a small town in Michigan there used to be twin OB-GYN's with the last name of Dokter. They actually advertised themselves as the Pair of Docs.
  24. Without a Union I would surely be out of a job. I have caused so much upheaval in our hospital by reporting our incredibly unsafe working conditions to the state, that the CEO glares at me whenever she sees me. I wouldn't put it past her to take ou...
  25. A Good Nurse

    I have been an RN for 11 years and I am still growing and striving to reach nursing excellence. I think in my early years of nursing, I was too intimidated by competent seasoned nurses to be a really good nurse myself. Every year I have seen my ski...