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  1. Really Wanting To Start Nursing Career In The OR

    Congrats on starting school, and kudos for your interest in the OR. There are opportunities out there, I would recommend checking with your local
  2. Practicing without a license

    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...
  3. Completely and totally disgusted.

    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...
  4. Bair Huggers

    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...
  5. Bair Huggers

    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...
  6. Flashing instrument trays

    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...
  7. Policies for masks in the OR

    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...
  8. SCD orders

    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...
  9. SCD orders

    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...
  10. SCD orders

    Shodobe, thanks for your input and backup! We should oughta know something with 50 years in the OR, eh?
  11. SCD orders

    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...
  12. Belly Button Gunk

    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...
  13. Great license plate...

    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...
  14. Guess the mispronounced medical term

    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
  15. So I lost it? Am I out of Line?

    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...
  16. Non-Nurses calling themselves a Nurse

    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
  17. Non-Nurses calling themselves a Nurse

    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
  18. Non-Nurses calling themselves a Nurse

    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...
  19. Non-Nurses calling themselves a Nurse

    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...
  20. Pick up Malpractice! They went after my license.

    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
  21. Non-Nurses calling themselves a Nurse

    And don't forget the ever popular labor
  22. Competitiveness Grades etc

    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...
  23. USSC Suture Conversion

    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...
  24. Verbal Abuse from surgeons in the OR

    ...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...
  25. Why did you become an OR Nurse?

    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...