mcmike55

mcmike55

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  1. Would you want your children to go into nursing?

    mcmike55 replied to 2rntish's topic in General Nursing

    Sure, why not!!??? As a matter of fact, my oldest daughter is a RN. She grew up watching me come and go at all hours of the night and day. She saw me at my highest highes and my lowest lows when I...

  2. you might be from ohio if:

    mcmike55 replied to mcmike55's topic in Ohio Nursing

    Hello fellow Ohioians, and language destroyers out there!! Sorry, I have not contributed to this thread for a while, but I heard someone talking the other day, and made me wonder. We may have already...

  3. allowing parents in OR?

    mcmike55 replied to penguin2's topic in Operating Room

    First off, I want to say that we don't do a ton of kids, mostly T&A's, etc. We've been pretty good in getting IV's in kids age 8/9 and up in our holding area. Then a little Versed/Fentanyl. In...

  4. expected arrival time when on call

    mcmike55 replied to jaquar's topic in Operating Room

    We are a small rural hospital in Ohio, ans for us it's 20 minutes. That's call-to-clock time, normally it's only a fews mins. more to dress then set up starts. On an average. I'd say 30-35 mins from...

  5. Internal Vag Preps

    mcmike55 replied to CIRQL8's topic in Operating Room

    lady partsl preps,,,,there's a topic for discussion that never seems to die. If it's not in what order to do them, along with abd. preps, it's what to use. Dave, if you check back in the archives, I...

  6. RN's rarely scrub??

    mcmike55 replied to beachbum3's topic in Operating Room

    Don't you think that bottom line,,,is the bottom line that hospitals worry about here?? I think that's why more RN's don't scrub,,,,it's not cost efficent for hospitals to pay RN wages when they can...

  7. Do you put on sterile gloves?

    mcmike55 replied to IsseyM's topic in Operating Room

    For basic abd preps, I normally don't wear sterile gloves when using a Duraprep. Along the line of the old fashion sponge stick, hands off method. When doing extremities, such as hands for carpal...

  8. TRAUMA: Call and such

    mcmike55 replied to CIRQL8's topic in Operating Room

    We are a Level III, in rural SouthEast Ohio. Our primary OR team is also on Trauma Call. Most of the time, we don't even get notified. It's either not for us, or flown out. Occasionally we get one,...

  9. Orientation question!!!!!

    mcmike55 replied to luckyduck7's topic in Operating Room

    Keep in mind, orientation to the OR is not your normal orientation. A specialty like OR takes a lot longer to orient, than like to the general floor, you'll be under someone's wing, and not able to go...

  10. observers/students and pt rights

    mcmike55 replied to MissJoRN's topic in Operating Room

    I work at a rural, 3 OR hospital. So, many times, we must watch who is in the room, as they could be close friends or family members, which are not allowed. We have at times, lots of students,...

  11. I posted this in general discussion as well.

    mcmike55 replied to sandlewood_nurse's topic in Operating Room

    I may have missed the point to some of this topic, but it seems to me that this is yet another example of nursing eating their young. Gang, why would someone go out of their way to give a student or...

  12. At what point are you too old?

    mcmike55 replied to cinja's topic in Operating Room

    That's a really good question! Funny thing is, as I get older, I keep pushing the number ahead of me! That said, I have, and sure many of us have seen, some nurses that should have retired long before...

  13. Holiday call...

    mcmike55 replied to ShirleyM's topic in Operating Room

    We, like many of you, rotate holidays. The hospital observes the main holidays, New Years Day, Christmas, 4th of July, Memorial Day, etc....we added in a few more as department holidays, such as...

  14. nurse needed please

    mcmike55 replied to dougnurs2b's topic in General Nursing

    PM sent, I'll be happy to help.

  15. OR Fires & Drills

    mcmike55 posted a topic in Operating Room

    Hello to all you smart, experienced OR nurses! I have a quick question. I have been given the job of setting up an OR fire drill, and working on our Surgical Fire P&P's. I have access to AORN's...

  16. Your Favorite one liner used with patients

    mcmike55 replied to scaredofshots's topic in Nursing Humor

    Working the OR pre op area, we start IV's and other things to make final preps, to the OR. When starting an IV, I can't tell you how many times pts say "I hate IV's". I usually say,,,,"Over 30 years...

  17. you might be from ohio if:

    mcmike55 replied to mcmike55's topic in Ohio Nursing

    I just heard another one yesterday that I've never heard before. Do you brush your teeth, or wash them???? The nurse that told me this one, said washing your teeth is more of New York, New England...

  18. Giving meds in OR

    mcmike55 replied to lc4043's topic in Operating Room

    Pre op,,,the nurses have the primary job. After the anes. doc sees the pt, he leaves an order for a light pre op sedative, usually Versed/Fentanyl. We normally give it, but sometimes they push it....

  19. scheduling call help

    mcmike55 replied to livingintheor's topic in Operating Room

    Being on call is part of the job, like it or not, at least in my little corner of the world. I put up with it when I was a kid, and my mom was on.....and my kids learned to live with it, with me. Our...

  20. Patients who fib about being NPO...

    mcmike55 replied to ortess1971's topic in Operating Room

    Every once in a while, I've run across one that thinks they know more about the risks of violating the NPO order than us! After a while, you sort of get a little ESP about it. You can almost tell at...

  21. Ophthalmic surgery

    mcmike55 replied to arys1075's topic in Operating Room

    Our scrub nurses do the IOL folding. We do use basicly, two types of lenses. One folded, the other not. Occasionally we do break a haptic, or get one out of the box broken. We just dept. req....

  22. Soooo, you're observing in the Operating Room (O.R.)...

    mcmike55 replied to Marie_LPN, RN's topic in Operating Room

    Good Stuff Marie!!!! Kids,,,I hope you're taking note!!!! Just kidding,,,sort of..... I've been in the OR for nearly 30 years. Over the course of a year, we have student RN's, paramedics, LPN's,...

  23. TUR-P v. GreenLight/PVP v. HOLAP

    mcmike55 replied to CIRQL8's topic in Operating Room

    I've done the "old fashion" TUP-P's for years using electrocautery. A few, maybe 5 years ago, we started using the GreenLight Laser, the name of the company escapes me at the moment. LaserScope I...

  24. Bookwalter retractors

    mcmike55 replied to sharann's topic in Operating Room

    I agree with Shodobe, (and who wouldn't), most every Appy I've ever seen done a Rue (sp?) retractor, a devor or two, maybe a rich, and good scrub tech to hold should be all you need. Now, that said,...

  25. 10 things you say at work lay people could get arrested for

    mcmike55 replied to sharann's topic in Nursing Humor

    I don't know about getting arrested, but these two will sure make heads turn!! 1. I used to teach CPR, and the Annie had a paper strip read out that showed how hard the student was compressing, etc....