LAM2010

LAM2010 BSN

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

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

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  1. 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

  2. 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

  3. 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...

  4. 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...

  5. 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...

  6. 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...

  7. 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...

  8. 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...

  9. 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.

  10. 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

  11. 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...

  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...

  16. Can't get my foot in the OR door, help!

    LAM2010 replied to ylime92's topic in Operating Room

    Can you ask to observe in the O.R. where you work? Everywhere I've worked will let a nurse observe in the O.R. If not on your own scheduled shifts (if you ever have slow days, lol...), maybe on an...

  17. OR sabotage? Or Not....

    LAM2010 replied to strive's topic in Operating Room

    Sometimes people think "throwing you to the wolves" helps you learn. Looking back, it helped me, LOL. Although I would never do it to anyone I was in charge of... When I first started in the O.R. I...

  18. Informaticist job not requiring experience

    LAM2010 posted a topic in Nursing Informatics

    I just applied for this type of position in my own facility. I haven't been able to get a hold of the people in the department to ask them about it (I am really busy as an O.R. nurse), no one's...

  19. Precepting Experienced Nurse

    LAM2010 replied to beachgirl17's topic in Operating Room

    I leave the room. I go do something else. I can also speak from experience, I was a new nurse (never worked anywhere but an O.R.), and after about 6 weeks of "you're doing great" they decided to tell...

  20. Why I work as an OR RN

    LAM2010 posted a topic in Operating Room

    I went through nursing school and chose a BSN to be closer to getting an MSN, but mainly because I've wanted a bachelor's degree ever since I was 8. When I finally decided to become a RN (when I was...

  21. OR RN for 5 yrs: Do I qualify for UM?...

    LAM2010 posted a topic in Case Management

    Hi - I've been an RN in an inpatient OR for 5 years, have a BSN, and oooodles of customer service and clerical experience prior to that. I am more of a pro at customer service than I probably am at...

  22. OR RN for 5 yrs: Do I qualify for UM?...

    LAM2010 replied to LAM2010's topic in Case Management

    I did apply. Haven't heard back, however... I just learned that I have to be employed here 90 days before I can apply for another position in the system. :/ So... I will have to

  23. OR RN for 5 yrs: Do I qualify for UM?...

    LAM2010 replied to LAM2010's topic in Case Management

    Thanks everyone

  24. OR RN for 5 yrs: Do I qualify for UM?...

    LAM2010 replied to LAM2010's topic in Case Management

    Hmm. Maybe I can job-shadow... What you describe sounds like the job description they gave me. Thanks turningred, very helpful.

  25. OR RN for 5 yrs: Do I qualify for UM?...

    LAM2010 replied to LAM2010's topic in Case Management

    Yes. I did take that post as her personal perspective, thanks :) Sometimes MY job is boring - and I get to run around and do different things. But even that is getting monotonous. My patients...