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I bet she is talking about the coblator and not the bovie. That makes more sense.

Love all my nurses I work with! Got a call from the trauma room: Nurse: Patient is bleeding everywhere, the Neptune won't work we have tried everything! We need suction. Me: I'm coming. Nurse: Thank god, suction won't work! I go into the room, w...

OK, we always use 30 for T&A's. Most use the coblator, but I'm confused. Are the settings different for you. 8 is so low, how could this even be used in a tonsillectomy?

I really am having a tough time. Been in the OR for over 15 years. Moved to a new state last summer, and recently went back to work in the OR. I am CNOR certified. Nicest group of staff you will ever meet, but I have never seen anything like this...

I'm trying to figure out the same thing. I'm beginning to second guess myself, and wonder if I'm the one who is crazy. I just can't deal with it anymore. Thanks for replying, I'm beginning to think I'm nuts. And, furthermore, I would LOVE to see...

Thanks for your response. I'm feeling better now like I'm not completely crazy. Bagging laps without gloves? That is just the nastiest thing I have ever heard!

Just recently moved to a new state and new hospital. I've been in the OR for over 15 years and just have a few questions. They do quite a few things different in this hospital and it just seems wrong, so I'm looking for some input. 1. The ...

This is just awful. No wonder why new nurses aren't going to the OR. Who gives a crap about how you soak your cotton balls in betadine? Why does it matter, the only thing that matters is that everything remains sterile. I've been in the OR for 1...

Thank you for your response. It doesn't matter how long you have been in the OR, we should all be as diligent as you! You are going to be just fine. Just keep your good standards up. I'm beginning to think I'm crazy. I guess I'm just going to co...

I recently moved and started a new job. I was sitting in the break room listening to a couple of employees arguing over the correct way to scrub. I'm really just curious how most people scrub after listening to this argument. Do you do your finger...

That's how I was taught too! I'm being told it's wrong though!!! I just don't know anymore, I guess as long as your hands are scrubbed you are in the clear! LOL:no:

I read the threads, but don't respond much because it all seems to be the same thing. New nurses trying to get into the OR. I appreciate everyone wanting an OR internship, but there is hardly anything anymore about the actual OR. I've been in the O...

I call SPD or sometimes find somebody who scrubs those cases all the time.

LOVE THIS!

Ortho is really my specialty, done it forever, and it's where I am the most comfortable. Love ortho, not sure why. ENT is my second love that service as well. I can do anything really, but I really, really dislike gyn...

That really makes no sense. I don't understand how employers think sometimes. Maybe they had somebody else in mind? I once had an interview for a school nurse. As I'm waiting for my interview, I hear the secretary talking to the lady I'm intervie...

I agree with "TakeTwoAspirin." I think stay at the current job. You won't have the stress of all the crap when you start a new job. Being pregnant is hard enough, but changing jobs in the OR is even crazier. I wish you lots of luck in whatever yo...

Let's see...A lot of our docs want Chloraprep for the abdomen and betadine solution for the vagina. I do the bottom first in case something flips up and to contaminate the abdomen. We go back and forth at my facility about this. We get in huge fig...

Yeah, I agree with Argo on this one, not breaking down a heart room back table early. That's OK for an umbilical hernia or something, but I wouldn't do that on a heart or vascular. Turnover times drive me crazy. I hate being pushed, that's how mis...

I've found confronting the individual does no good. Just makes it worse! It's gotten really bad where I work too, so it's gone to management. We have a new manager and she's trying to get it under control, it's a little better but still not great....

I think every OR has that problem. Sometimes it's a nurse who wants to "run to the rescue" when he/she is the only one who knows where it is. It's actually pretty annoying...

Dansko of course!

I thing you are referring to that rumi thing right? Same freakin thing happened to me. Scrub noticed the ring was missing when she was cleaning up her instruments. We were fixin to move the lady to the stretcher. The RNFA went in the vagina and t...

I haven't seen a surgeon throw something at someone in a long time. Once had a scrub walk out at 2 am in the morning after having several instruments tossed at him. That was 10 years ago though. Worst I have had recently is surgeons throwing instru...

Yup, good luck getting anything replaced in my OR either. Anyhow, one of the nurses at work told me it was in a recent AORN magazine, I think at the back where they do the questions. One of the reasons they were stating is that IV bags can burst, a...