LAM2010

LAM2010 BSN

O.R. Nursing - ENT, CTC, Vasc.

Feel free to message me O.R. nursing questions.

Member

  • Content

    129

  • Visitors

    4,245

  • Followers

    0

  • Likes

    3

All Content by LAM2010

  1. circulator OR, new grad, too fast paced?

    LAM2010 replied to dontcallmeamurse's topic in Operating Room

    There are times when you think you're doing great and getting it, and then one day you'll feel like all of a sudden you're not again... but then you get it back the next day or so... I mean it really...

  2. Going from small OR to big OR :O

    LAM2010 posted a topic in Operating Room

    I have an interview next week for a big tertiary care facility OR. I currently work in a small community hospital, and have been there for about 14 months. I've only been a nurse for 14 months, as...

  3. surgeons preference

    LAM2010 replied to diva88s's topic in Operating Room

    in my O.R., the only docs that want certain people scrubbing are the older crabbier (well, we only really have ONE like that) ortho surgeons :) and sometimes it is the circulator who controls those...

  4. Hiding and hoarding supplies

    LAM2010 replied to PetiteOpRN's topic in Operating Room

    No one does that here...luckily we always have what we need, so there is no need to hide or stash. What I do wonder about is, when preference cards for certain cases aren't updated with important...

  5. Is working in the or really that stressful?

    LAM2010 replied to Angeleah's topic in Operating Room

    aannnyyy wayyyy.... :) I guess one's attitude toward stress might give you different answers. I would say it's stressful (I've been in the O.R. for a year), especially the learning part. But I...

  6. I ask this GREAT Nursing Community to Please Help Me with Picking Up the Pieces

    LAM2010 replied to To Help and Learn's topic in Operating Room

    AND, as far as the stress in the O.R. vs. the stress working med/surg.... It is stress of a different kind. But it is stress that comes and goes quickly! If you're a circulator, anyway.... I can't...

  7. I ask this GREAT Nursing Community to Please Help Me with Picking Up the Pieces

    LAM2010 replied to To Help and Learn's topic in Operating Room

    I would keep trying and applying, despite a recent history of getting turned down for no experience. Hiring trends and the economy, in my job-searching experience (I've been looking at the job sites...

  8. Moving to the OR ...SUPER excited with a small side of nervousness

    LAM2010 replied to aymen09's topic in Operating Room

    I borrowed the Alexander book from a family member - I read some of it. It didn't really help *much* but the stuff is good to know. So if you have to buy it yourself and don't have money to blow,...

  9. surgeons

    LAM2010 replied to CNM2B201?'s topic in Operating Room

    I have had surgeons get crabby with me when it was something they were doing, had nothing to do with me, that was stressing them out. These people I just have to not take personally and not react to...

  10. Advice needed for OR clinical: Large teaching or small community hospital?

    LAM2010 replied to ruralgirl08's topic in Operating Room

    I will just say I recommend the community hospital. If my guess is right, the people will be friendlier, and you will have more range. One person in a small OR will do all kinds of cases, whereas...

  11. Families and Healthcare: What Do You Think?

    LAM2010 replied to DREAMSDOCOMETRUE0610's topic in General Nursing

    I personally saw your time being used up answering questions that the family did have a right to have answers to. They do have a right to answers, but unfortunately we don't have all that time....

  12. Is nursing "care" a thing of the past?

    LAM2010 replied to AnneBlunnRN's topic in General Nursing

    My hospital is trying to pull it together by making every person in the hospital accountable for patient attention. If we were so understaffed that patients were suffering in their own bodily fluids...

  13. Foley Irrigation in the OR

    LAM2010 replied to L&DRNC's topic in Operating Room

    i just heard a story the other day where a surgeon used milk to check if the bladder was nicked. i thought it was weird,

  14. Does anyone know of a perioperative NP or CNS program?

    LAM2010 replied to LuvTheOR's topic in Clinical Nurse Specialists, CNS

    Interested in this as well but don't know much...just watching...

  15. Chart Abstraction Project

    LAM2010 replied to MickeysKids's topic in General Nursing

    I see that this post is from October 2010 but didn't see any replies, but wanted to bump up the topic.. I just discovered this as a "job" (elsewhere on the internet) and don't know much about it yet....

  16. Why are OR nurses frowned upon?

    LAM2010 replied to hopefornursing's topic in Operating Room

    Here to give positive O.R. nursing feedback. I don't trash floor nursing, and floor nurses shouldn't trash O.R. nurses. They are two different areas and the nursing process is just applied in...

  17. new grad, OR

    LAM2010 replied to linguine's topic in Operating Room

    I didn't go through a special training program. In school, I had a few opportunities to observe in ORs, and knew that I was interested. Then in our last semester, we did a leadership clinical and we...

  18. OR RN who started out in OR in another position

    LAM2010 replied to srobb11's topic in Operating Room

    I agree with getting in the door as a tech. Where I work, a lot of RNs also scrub when needed. They don't really have to go to a OR tech program to learn it, either - they get taught. One day...

  19. Recycling Program in OR?

    LAM2010 replied to boopette's topic in Operating Room

    People aren't using ours too much. And one reason is because our reps told us we could put bloody things in it, but the bins don't get emptied every day so we haven't wanted to put bloody things in...

  20. 2 Months In- I am surviving :)

    LAM2010 replied to cyncopia's topic in Operating Room

    Glad to hear it! I am 8 months in - they consider me still to be on "orientation" but I work cases alone and have a few that they don't let me circulate yet (totals). It is pretty amazing how it all...

  21. Nursing Student Wanting OR, Should I Get A Floor Tech Position?

    LAM2010 replied to redraider1977's topic in Operating Room

    It is better than no experience :) Even if you can do very part-time hours as a floor tech... The patient safety, and transferring and positioning, and even skin care that you do as a tech is a very...

  22. OR Nursing Questions...?

    LAM2010 replied to MerDerlvr4ever's topic in Operating Room

    I got hired right after college (BSN). When we had our last semester leadership/management clinicals, I chose the O.R. (they gave us choices and did their best to give us what we requested). Then...

  23. Has A Surgeon Ever Thrown An Instrument At You?

    LAM2010 replied to TravelerAdvisor's topic in Operating Room

    I work with a surgeon who sometimes throws things, but not at any of us. I wouldn't put it past him, though. He has kind of thrown a hemostat down on his patient when he was mad at us, though...

  24. "Neutral" sharps passing zone

    LAM2010 replied to fezzin's topic in Operating Room

    We've got the orange grippy things to put on the sterile field. They're for passing the sharps, but it's a challenge to get anyone to really use it. They're still passing the sharps by hand. I...

  25. O.R. orientation 6-9 mos. or 3 mos.?

    LAM2010 posted a topic in Operating Room

    Hi everyone - I'm a new RN - graduated in December '09 and started as a circulator in March. It seems my bosses have given me just 4 months orientation instead of the 6 to 9 months they kept telling...