Sister Fox

Safety belts? Something I must have missed! For sure, the Huggas should be in direct contact with the patient. The way to prevent burns (??) is to set a correct temperature!

NO!!! Jiminy cricket! I have to add the story about the houseman (junior doctor) who had his finger included in a transfixion suture and was too polite/timid to say anything! True - I was there!

I'm curious - here in the UK, OHNs are required to maintain all medical records of employees as strictly confidential - that is, not for the eyes of any member of the management. All management gets after a pre-employment medical is a paper stating t...

Gosh, you get involved with first-aiding? I've been doing Occy Health for 14 years and never got involved with accidents or such - well, only the really serious ones that required triaging and resus. The rest was always dealt with by the first aiders...

What's a practicum? Don't think we have such a thing in the UK (unless they snuck it in since I retired!)

Welcome to Ortho! Fat, especially in TKRs, is a fact of life! In 50 yrs I never found anything that would eliminate it! You just get used to it over time. You might be misreading their looks. Remember they are having the same problem too!

Try telling that to the anaesthetic staff! Hear, hear, Scrubby! There are always occasions when there is no-one else able to do this particular case for a variety of reasons. And I've always felt that someone who has to be so cut and dried about w...

I always passed by hand but received it back in a kidney dish. I was pretty strict when teaching that the scrub should always pass with the back of the blade to the palm, place the scalpel handle in between the forefinger and thumb of the surgeon's o...

Well, if people still insist on sending instruments and bedpans to the laundry, what makes you think they are fastidious enough to be into recycling!

Bless you - what a horrid atmosphere to be working in. But the others are right. And those people are nit-picking at you because they are jealous! Be proud of yourself, what you have achieved and don't let them rob you of your self-confidence like th...

Oh this gave me such a belly laugh! Seems the US and the UK aren't so different after all, even if what we call the OR does sound like something from Broadway! I can only reply with a story of my own but it won't be as succinct as you guys! I wa...

It's been a few years since I actually worked in theatre (4 actually!) but when we got extra items out, the packet was fixed to a clipboard kept especially for that purpose and kept on top of any trays for said extras. Items were then counted to the ...

And here's some educational websites that might help! hemiarthroplasty Total Hip Replacement Plus there's heaps of vids on YouTube!

Oh these acronyms! Bane of life! If you'd Googled Austin Moore, you might have had better luck! Okay: Insertion of an Austin Moore prosthesis is more correctly known as a hemi-arthroplasty and is performed for fractured necks of femur of the subca...

I work for this firm - freelance part time occupational health on ad hoc sessions. We go to manufacturing firms to do medicals as per HSE standards and requirements. It used to be quite a busy firm - an 8 room suite, employed about 8 nurses, two full...

Yes, I do remember that but thanks for the reminder.

Well, that's true but I didn't want to intrude in that area. I did think that was the case - she can run the business but not do anything herself - just wanted input from my colleagues here! Thanks for the replies!

First person who ever asked me that was my father, famed for his passionate dislike of all things medical and anything whatsoever to do with blood or other bodily fluids! I had just recently passed my finals and got my longed for job in the orthop...

No it can't!

Last autumn I was faced with having to let my registration lapse. I had just turned 68, been off nearly all year having had a knee replacement and the recession hit Industrial Occupational Health really bad. What firms hadn't gone under, had to cut ...

That's very unthinking of them. But yes, you do have to notify them so they take your name off the list, same as any other organisation, bank, etc. Our register is a legal charter not just a membership file. That's the difference. And I remember wh...

You're not a dinosaur, Karen -just never passed that route. When I took a part-time job in recovery in 2000, only a very few like the Sister in Charge gave IV meds but a couple of years on, it was decided that all theatre staff should have IV trainin...

Good question - VERY good question!

dunno about bad particularly - but i know i wouldn't want to wear stuff that had been washed with scrubs

Of course we could always expand the conversation to include the abuse of the 999 service .... Heard of one person who dialled 999 because they couldn't find their remote to turn the TV off so they could go to bed!