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Our OR has a preop holding area that is staffed by an RN 7a-3p then the circulator(s) manage that area. Now we are told that in-patients needing surgery after 3pm will be held in the pacu, not in the holding area which is right across the hall. Reaso...

Hello everyone! It's been a heck of a year so far starting with a devastating diagnosis of breast cancer in Jan.2007. Since then I've undergone surgery and chemo and everything that goes with that. I took 6 months off work during this time and when ...

Glad to see you're doing great! Good luck in your schooling and hurry up and graduate....we need you out here!

I work in a day surgery unit doing pre and post ops only and work M-F. Although we work very close with pacu and or nurses, we don't rotate thru either of those areas.

Do your best to look polished and professional. Unfortunately too many nurses show up in jeans and t-shirt for interviews (we do peer interviews) and it looks as if they just stopped by on their way to the park. The total "package" is being assessed ...

As a female with over 30 years in the profession, I am certainly ready for more males to join the nursing ranks. Women are much too clickish and catty compared to males. As well, the males don't particularly care if they wear the lastest fashion in s...

Two of the nurses I work with consistently clock out at the end of our shift, and stay to chart. When I questioned why, they said "oh, to save the unit some money"....like it's some noble act or something. They have been there many years more than I...

My once not-for profit employer was bought out by the for profit Vanguard corporation and I can tell you the differences are enormous. I long for the good old days when every patient was given the best care with the best of equipment/supplies by nurs...

I'm new to the periop area but not to nursing. After too many years in the ER, I am now working the preop holding area and I love it. A situation has come up and I'd like your thoughts to be able to just go with the flow or tell them why I think it's...

I see nothing but trouble on the horizon for us. Heck, as it is now...the other day I walked by our break room which is about 15 feet away from the desk, and there was a man sitting in there drinking coffee and eating cookies someone had brought in f...

I'm four weeks new to the periop setting and was originally supposed to train as a circulator. After 4 days they begged me to instead work in the pre-op area and I've been doing great thru trial and error. One day we had given fleets enemas as ordere...

As a former ER nurse, I vote NO to family members present during codes. There are never enough nurses, or the chaplain is still 1hr away, to tend to both the family and the patient. I cringed when I read a post that said families "deserve" to be pres...

I'm in the process of deciding whether or not to transfer to the cath lab after many years in the ER. I'm totally burned out and need a change but don't want to work in ICU or the floors. I have spoken to a nurse that works there and she had nothing ...

As per my previous posts, I started in the OR just as I planned. I transferred from the ER and was ready for a totally new experience. Well, I spent the first 3 days shadowing my preceptor and taking notes of everything and wondering how long it was ...

I know...I need to lose weight... I am trying. In the meantime, I'd love to hear what kind of shoes you all wear to keep comfortable. I've use skechers, new balance, nike, all the popular ones, but my right heel is aching like crazy. Not my toes, not...

And I think I did ok. I tried to stick to my preceptor, didn't touch anything or do anything I wasn't sure of. At one point my precpt. had to leave the room for a minute while they were preparing a pt for a kyphoplasty and the surgeon put several pak...

I saw that exact product at walgreens.....I'll try them, THANKS ALL!

I bought a pair about 3 weeks ago but now they're not as "cushiony feeling"as when I first got them. If it wasnt' for my heel, they would be great. Thanks for the suggestion Jessica! Marie, I've tried alot of stuff but never the gel pads. I'm going...

Thank You!! You all are so awesome!

During the past 3yrs, we have gone from a non-profit to FOR profit after being bought out by a corporation. And they are squeezing nurses hard to do more with less staff. Us oldsters believe they'd love to see us out of here to replace us with cheape...

Regarding my transfer to the OR from the ER....I am set to go there on 8-15. This morning the OR director called me to make the transfer official and I asked him about the OR periop course with regards to my pay rate. He said when any nurse goes to a...

THANKS MissJoRN! Great info and encouragement! I am gearing myself up to be a "new" nurse again, knowing nothing about the OR. But I am eager to learn. The good thing is several people that I've known in the hospital over the past 30yrs are there and...

Thanks for the input and encouragment! This has been a really tough decision to make leaving what's been "my home" for many years...the ER. But I feel relieved I have done it. I just got off the phone with a fellow ER nurse that been doing it for 25y...

Hello again! I have previously posted regarding my need for change after many years in the ER, by possibly going to PACU, then maybe Cath Lab (it didn't happen) and then trying for the OR. Well....it's happening! Next Monday I will start on the job t...

....I have posted before about finally being totally burned out from many years of ER nursing and I just now got the guts to DO something about it! I have no desire to work ICU (done that), or the floors, or Telemetry so the only area that interests...