beanal

beanal specializes in Perioperative Nursing.

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1. Sell Your Nursing Knowledge

   beanal replied to beanal's topic in Nurse Entrepreneurs, Innovators

   Believe it or not there are people on the internet who actually are educated and have credentials. If a nurse is honest and has valuable and credible information to share with the public what better...

2. Sell Your Nursing Knowledge

   beanal replied to beanal's topic in Nurse Entrepreneurs, Innovators

   When you first start writing for hire you may only get $10 an article. But if you are writing about a health related topic that you are very familiar with you can write an article in about 15 minutes....

3. Electrical safety in operating Room

   beanal replied to chiquilina's topic in Operating Room

   Re: electrical safety: Also do a visual inspection of the electrical cords of all OR equipment prior to use. Especially the OR table cord as sometimes the cord will be underneath the foot of the table...

4. What do you think of a NEW RN trying the OR?

   beanal replied to changeofpaceRN's topic in Operating Room

   I think it is OK for a new grad to start in the OR as long as you have an good solid orientation with a nurse educator. I don't agree with new grads being shuffled around from nurse to nurse for the...

5. Just got hired!!

   beanal replied to jsnj2009's topic in Operating Room

   Congratulations! If I had one piece of advice it would be to know your OR hospital policies and procedures very well. Also read AORN (American Operating Room Nursing) Standards. If you are going to be...

6. Sell Your Nursing Knowledge

   beanal replied to beanal's topic in Nurse Entrepreneurs, Innovators

   Students would not be able to sell these types of articles as they are only 400-600 words and are written for the lay person on health care related topics. I have written on various subjects such as...

7. Sell Your Nursing Knowledge

   beanal posted a topic in Nurse Entrepreneurs, Innovators

   Anyone out there frustrated with their present nursing job? I was there a few years ago and then started writing health care related articles online for internet marketers. You can supplement your...

8. SOOO sick of my job already!!

   beanal replied to tx2007's topic in Ambulatory Care, Clinic

   As as a nurse you have options. For example if you know how to write you could write some articles for online marketers. There are literally hundreds of people who have health related websites who...

9. Advanced Practice Nursing in the OR

   beanal replied to sallber's topic in Operating Room

   I use to be a CRNFA before they had this official certification. It was so much fun and in my opinion is much better than being a PA as you just get to operate all day long. It was a blast and so...

10. Foley Balloon Test

    beanal replied to OR male nurse's topic in Operating Room

    It depends on the patient as to whether or not I check the balloon. Most patients I do check the ballon but I don't for patients with a hx of BPH as it is hard enough to try to get the foley inserted...

11. Why Black Eyes?

    beanal replied to nurseaboveboard's topic in Operating Room

    I heard of a patient going blind in one eye when a first assistant was using a Deaver for abdominal surgery retraction. The assistants elbow was resting on the eye of the patient for an extended...

12. Advice from circulating nurses...

    beanal replied to JLKNurse's topic in Operating Room

    Shadowing an experienced OR nurse for a day who loves to teach will be an invaluable experience and will allow you to better understand the perioperative role. If you are able to observe just be sure...

13. What's your number of operating rooms to nurse manager ratio

    beanal posted a topic in Operating Room

    Our hospital has 16 OR's, 8 nurse managers and 7 coordinators not including the OR director, asst. director and VP. One of our nurse managers shared in the locker room that she has "never worked so...

14. Need information on running a mock cor zero and mock fire drill

    beanal replied to shaomai's topic in Operating Room

    AORN has a great video on OR fires that was produced a few years ago. Just contact them and they will send you a copy. It very informative and very well

15. Verbal Abuse from surgeons in the OR

    beanal replied to spineCNOR's topic in Operating Room

    Our OR management and administrators pays lip service to having zero tolerance for verbal abuse from anyone not just surgeons. I think this year since one of the patient safety goals deals with verbal...