As a registered nurse, it is is your duty as a professional to report this to your state board of nursing. If she's done it once, she'll do it again, and needs to be stopped before something...
The travesty here is that someone can come from a foreign country 9 month pregnant; no prenatal care, no cash, and no English, and walk into any hospital to give birth. After birthing that baby, (who...
The practice of putting the bair hugger tubing underneath the sheet or blanket and and turning it on is potentially contaminating your sterile field with lint from the sheet/blanket. Good intentions...
Ladies and Gents: If you want to warm the bed prior to placing the patient on the bed, I would heartily suggest using the bair hugger blanket. Placing the hose between two sheets or a bath blanket...
Greetings colleagues: Just taking a little poll of the country, here. I know the flashing of instruments goes against AORN's recommended practice:nono:, however, I am interested in answere from around...
Circl8r replied to maritimegirl's topic in Operating Room
Hi: We wear masks in any room that has opened sterile supplies. In the institution that I work currently, we also wear masks in the sterile core because occasionally a scrubbed person steps in to...
Circl8r replied to inspir8tion's topic in Operating Room
I'll never cease to be amazed at how some people can twist another's words to fit their needs. I am neither standing on higher ground, nor am I casting insults, young man. I merely stated that your...
Circl8r replied to inspir8tion's topic in Operating Room
OR male nurse, is there a reason that you feel that this thread must turn into a pi**ing match, because in my humbly opinionated opinion, that's what it's become. I'm sure that after three whole years...
Circl8r replied to inspir8tion's topic in Operating Room
Are you aware that your preference card is as good as a doctor's order? If they are on your preference cards, you are covered and don't have to ask. On another level, check and see if there is a set...
I had a surgeon who called them "Oscars"...like little rewards, and have asked surgeons if I could bill for the procedure! I've seen some real 'clinkers' in my day! Remember when our Moms used to...
I know an anesthesiologist: ISNOOZM A CRNA: SLEEP3 A Urologist: PLUMBR8 A Cardiologist: PQRST U My former plate: JUST A RN (inside joke), then DONA RN1 I changed plates and removed all references to...
Then there's the ever popular labor "epidermal" for pain relief And my dear mother (God rest her soul) who took HARmones and antiBEEotics... This thread is a hoot...I'm really enjoying
NO, all places are not alike. If I were you, I'd give my two weeks and hit the happy trail. There ARE places out there that actually care for their nurses. If it's feasible, try finding a magnet...
I haven't got a brain.. Only straw.How can you talk if you haven't got a brain? I don't know.But some people without brains do an awful lot of talking,don't they Your quote says it
Must be really hard to walk around with that huge chip on your shoulder. NO one was taking shots at CMAs...only at those professing to be nurses who are not. Time to get over
To the CMA's who are defending their postion: no one is disparaging you personally. The point of this thread is that anyone who is NOT a nurse is not to represent themselves as such. The ethics of any...
http://nursingworld.org/gova/titlepro.htm The above link lists all states that have title protection. Boggles the mind that anyone could be so stupid as to pass themselves off as something that they...
It's a shame that you have such an unethical DON. I would hope that others would see that and report it to someone higher up. Congrats to you and your unit clerk for sticking to what's
I'm 51 years old and have just returned for my BSN...to the University of Phoenix online...you betcherbutt I obsess over my grades I proudly suffer from middle-aged over-achiever syndrome. I think...
Greetings: We have just been switched to US Surgical Suture. The surgeons dislike it immensely. Some have had problems with needles popping off on non-popoff sutures, wound dehiscence, and other...
...abusive surgeons will get theirs in the end! I have a friend who took a ration of crappola from one nut case, and went home and shared it with her husband. That night, the husband called the...
Circl8r replied to GottaBeanRN's topic in Operating Room
I'm going to go out on a limb here and give you the REAL reason I went to the O.R. to begin with. Back in '1908' when I started, you never worked weekends, off shifts, or holidays in the O.R. I...