R.T.

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1. Nurses' Week Celebration

   R.T. replied to KungPaoNsg's topic in Nurse Management

   Last year, our hospita finally made the transition for recruitment to retention of employees. I have worked at the facility for 9 years. The facility still has a long way to go. For nurse's week,...

2. Scrub clothes vending machines

   R.T. posted a topic in Operating Room

   I am the clinical manager of Surgical Services in a 26 bed OR. We are having extreme difficulty with maintaining scrub clothes for the staff to wear. Everywhere you turn in the hospital and outside,...

3. What happens to your integrity when you go into management?

   R.T. replied to olympiad27's topic in Nurse Management

   I work as a clinical manager in an 26 bed OR. I have been in management for the past 3 years. I have worked at this facility for 9 years. I started as a LPN in the scrub role in surgery, went back...

4. Should OR RN's be ACLS/PALS certified?

   R.T. replied to sharann's topic in Operating Room

   We have 26 OR rooms, and nurses are not required to be ACLS or PALS certified in the OR. The hospital pays .10 an hour for each certification, and we do about 3 IV conscious sedation cases a year....

5. american anaesthetists in Oz

   R.T. replied to squeek's topic in Operating Room

   I am a Nurse manager in the OR in Tennessee. We do have Nurse Anesthesists (known as CRNA's ) in my facility. Actually, we have 38. They typically give 95% of all anesthesia. Our Anesthesiologists...

6. staffing software

   R.T. posted a topic in Nurse Management

   New Clinical OR Manager looking for information on staffing software. I currently am using pencil/paper method of scheduling staff. It has been done this way for the past 14 years. It takes about 12...