LAM2010 BSN

LAM2010 has 15 years experience as a BSN and specializes in O.R. Nursing - ENT, CTC, Vasc..

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1. Hospitals who count all instruments on all surgical cases

   LAM2010 replied to LAM2010's topic in Operating Room

   No surprise that no other OR nurses are replying that their facility requires instrument counts on all cases, even superficial cases. VA nurses don't have to reply

2. VHA Directive 1103 - Counts

   LAM2010 posted a topic in Government, Military

   This directive was made in 2014. Amended in 2023. Do all VA O.R.s know about it? If so, how do you handle new employees with O.R. experience who are shocked that we have to count instruments even...

3. Circulator scrub training

   LAM2010 replied to JenniJean14's topic in Operating Room

   I work for a VA that required circulators to learn how to scrub. At the moment, that training is on hold for new-to-us circulators, because a lot of the experienced circ-scrub RNs still felt like the...

4. Advice for A New RN in the OR

   LAM2010 replied to dparasiliti's topic in Operating Room

   We had an OR nurse who was actually a NP, she just decided she liked the OR work. But after awhile she got a job as a NP for the anesthesia department. Also, our surgeons use PAs and NPs in their...

5. Skin antisepsis guides

   LAM2010 replied to kdstewart's topic in Operating Room

   - AORN guidelines or articles - Textbook - Alexander's "Care of the Patient in Surgery" - Berry and Kohn's "Operating Room Technique" Maybe some Elsevier modules on your facility's...

6. Periop101

   LAM2010 replied to hearte's topic in Operating Room

   I got a job as an OR nurse as a new grad because I had done a management clinical with their director and so they got to know what kind of nurse and coworker/team member I'd be. You could maybe get a...

7. Surgical Techs Running O.R. Board?

   LAM2010 replied to LAM2010's topic in Operating Room

   Thanks for the responses. Someday soon I guess I'll have more curious questions about weird stuff we do.

8. Hospitals who count all instruments on all surgical cases

   LAM2010 replied to LAM2010's topic in Operating Room

   Thanks for the replies. I agree, it sure does take up time. We're trying to standardize a "flow" so we can try to stay within our turnover times. It's

9. Hospitals who count all instruments on all surgical cases

   LAM2010 posted a topic in Operating Room

   Yes, I am asking, ALL cases? Even cataracts. Is your hospital counting everything that touches the patient? Ours is making

10. Surgical Techs Running O.R. Board?

    LAM2010 replied to LAM2010's topic in Operating Room

    I couldn't find anything anywhere else so I brought it here. ? I don't see a problem with it but some RNs have a problem with it because "it's not in their (STs) scope of practice". And then I...

11. Surgical Techs Running O.R. Board?

    LAM2010 posted a topic in Operating Room

    I'm a surgical RN, I circulate and scrub. CSTs (or just STs) are now learning to run our O.R. board. where I work. Typically an RN has done it. A group of them rotate weeks, they do a week at a...

12. Newbie OR Nurse

    LAM2010 replied to LJOHRrn's topic in Operating Room

    It will get better. 12 weeks is not enough time to feel 100% proficient. If you know your way around the O.R. and everyone's names, you're set! (Sort of, haha. You know where to go for help). The...

13. Thinking of being a circulator?...Think twice.

    LAM2010 replied to OR Dude's topic in Operating Room

    Becoming an OR nurse (circulator, anyway) DOES have to be considered carefully. It's not easy and after orientation is over, you either love it or you hate it. I know how the OP feels; in my career...

14. Where do OR nurses go?

    LAM2010 replied to learningnurse's topic in Operating Room

    Clinical Nurse Leaders or whatever they're called - My O.R. has one of those. She was a Clinical Facilitator until she got her degree, and now she is a CNL. I don't know if my brain could handle...

15. Bair Hugger and Safety Belt

    LAM2010 replied to SQueenRN's topic in Operating Room

    You know, we always have this debate where I work, and I've been putting the belt under the Bair blanket and then I just keep my eye on the Bair blanket to see if it's slipping (it never does). We do...