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  1. union?

    orrnlori replied to DebiRN's topic in General Nursing

    So you get a union and then the hospital still won't do want your union wants. What do you do, strike? I think that this is a main problem that nurses have when considering unionizing. At some...

  2. OR nursing QUESTIONS

    orrnlori replied to BSN_student2004's topic in Operating Room

    Every time I have a bad day (cases get shuffled, can't find all the instruments or materials I need, get paired with a lazy surgical tech, get stuck working in ENT, or some such other disconcerting...

  3. How many RN's scrub?

    orrnlori replied to Chrislynn2003's topic in Operating Room

    I'd rather scrub than circulate. And if I had my druthers, I'd rather circulate for a nurse who is scrubbing than for a tech. While there are a couple of good techs at my hospital most of them have...

  4. 8 hour or 12 hour shifts?

    orrnlori replied to VanessaJ's topic in General Nursing

    I did 12's for a while but I quickly learned that I become dangerous around hour 10. I now work 4 - 9 hour shifts, which is the same total as 3 -12's. I like it, I'm not too tired and I still get...

  5. Why, would any RN oppose requiring a BSN for all future nurses?

    orrnlori replied to Roland's topic in General Nursing

    Roland, we'll make you a deal. Do the research that you are so interested in and them come back and tell us why the system shifted from diploma nurses to college trained nurses. And while you're at...

  6. Patients We Love to Hate

    orrnlori replied to VivaLasViejas's topic in General Nursing

    This is why I work in the OR. They happily travel to the OR coutesty of Versed and before you can snap your fingers.....they're unconscous!!!!! Peace and quiet.

  7. anyone actually get good grades in nursing school?

    orrnlori replied to moonbunnie's topic in General Students

    I agree that many nursing students are type A personalities. And then there's the one's that had what I called Middle-Aged Perfection Syndrome. I was 39 when I started and easily more than half my...

  8. Questions about OR policies

    orrnlori replied to findingmywayRN's topic in Operating Room

    When I was in the major OR at our level 1 trauma hospital our response time was 20 minutes. Can't be done and I only live 4 miles from work, especially from a dead sleep. I now take 4 hours beyond...

  9. Starting school

    orrnlori replied to Medic2005's topic in General Nursing

    Hi, I'm in Lexington, just found this site. Do the RN if at all possible. The pay difference is about 10.00/hour and the time in school is only slightly longer. crb - which school are you looking at?...

  10. Do nursing schools actually conciously REALIZE they are being ridiculous or is it a..

    orrnlori replied to Roland's topic in General Nursing

    Yes, I agee. I can't quite correlate the thread that we must all be BSN's to this thread where the world of nursing students is so unfair and downright hard, both authored by Roland. Seems to me you...

  11. OR nursing QUESTIONS

    orrnlori replied to BSN_student2004's topic in Operating Room

    What do I love about it? I have only one patient and they are asleep. No families hovering around and making the job difficult. Everyone is focused on one job and one job only. No conflicting...

  12. Why is meeting the "minimum standard of care" good enough?

    orrnlori replied to stevierae's topic in Operating Room

    POPRN - The first thing I would ask management is to have pre-picked emergency carts always available. I can't imagine having to pick my own carts, this is certainly a standard of care (substandard,...

  13. Personalities of an ER Nurse

    orrnlori replied to harry Krishna's topic in Emergency

    Great thread - these classifications transfer to the OR with seemless consistency. I know one of every catagory. But I think tool guy needs to also have the added caveat - always wanted to be a...

  14. Why, would any RN oppose requiring a BSN for all future nurses?

    orrnlori replied to Roland's topic in General Nursing

    I'm new here, and I'm shocked by Mr. Roland. You have been a nurse how long? Please tell me you won't get politically involved in anything having to do with this subject. The last thing we need is...

  15. i need to get out of this

    orrnlori replied to New CCU RN's topic in General Nursing

    Wow, I read your post and that was me, right out of school working in a trauma step down unit. I prayed I'd have a car wreck on the way to work every day. I feel your pain. I did it for 7 months...

  16. anyone actually get good grades in nursing school?

    orrnlori replied to moonbunnie's topic in General Students

    You know what they call the doctor that graduated at the bottom of this class? Doctor I found the nursing classes to be harder than the tough sciences only because our instructors had a nasty habit...

  17. Nursing as a second career

    orrnlori replied to ninas's topic in Nursing Career

    I was in banking for 20 years before I went to school to become a nurse. I've been an RN now for almost 6 years. I chose nursing because I could get the license with about 2 1/2 years of classes,...

  18. Can Circulating Nurse Sit?

    orrnlori replied to inches's topic in Operating Room

    I scrub and circulate. I've worked with some great scrubs like the one with the message written on his gown. Some people just make the day go so much better. A good circulator can easily sit during...

  19. Verbal Abuse from surgeons in the OR

    orrnlori replied to spineCNOR's topic in Operating Room

    Most of my docs are great, I love em. But there is this one ENT (we call them bugger-pickers) doc that thinks he's a neurosurgeon, very self important, somewhat bi-polar. One of the nurses I work...

  20. Humanities class at EC?

    orrnlori replied to Coldfoot's topic in Online Distance Learning

    See if the CLEP Analyzing and Interpreting Literature will fit their humanities requirement. This test is good for 6 credits, I just took it and got a 66 which is an A at Excelsior (I'm not a student...

  21. adn vs bsn

    orrnlori replied to lab2004's topic in Nursing Career

    Well it makes about .42/hour difference in hourly rate at my university hospital. My suggestion to you is to really look at the total number of nursing hours in an ADN program and then look at the...