mrsilly

mrsilly has 5 years experience.

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1. I ask this GREAT Nursing Community to Please Help Me with Picking Up the Pieces

   mrsilly replied to To Help and Learn's topic in Operating Room

   "I was seriously thinking of joining AORN to help with advice and networking. I see for a standard membership it is $125.00. If I do it I will see it as an investment in my future and know that it...

2. I ask this GREAT Nursing Community to Please Help Me with Picking Up the Pieces

   mrsilly replied to To Help and Learn's topic in Operating Room

   I would apply to other hospitals even if they don't advertise OR residency programs. There are so many hospitals in the NYC, just keep trying. You mentioned Princeton. Do you live in Jersey? Just...

3. "Neutral" sharps passing zone

   mrsilly replied to fezzin's topic in Operating Room

   I've seen the orange plastic "thingy" at my previous hospital. Everyone hated it and hardly used

4. OR Nurse Educator

   mrsilly replied to mrsilly's topic in Operating Room

   I hate using "uh" and "hum", but unfortunately, they still come out on occasion.

5. OR Nurse Educator

   mrsilly replied to mrsilly's topic in Operating Room

   I like this idea. I had never thought of that. It might have helped in my job interview last July. At a different interview I had given the nurse manager a copy of my MSN Capstone project to show her...

6. OR Nurse Educator

   mrsilly posted a topic in Operating Room

   Any OR Nurse Educators out there? I've been trying to find a job since I completed my MSN. I had one job interview in July and didn't get it. However, I now have a phone interview on Friday (it's a...

7. CNOR

   mrsilly replied to canesdukegirl's topic in Operating Room

   I concur! I would suggest getting the AORN Standards & Recommended Practices to study. When I took the exam, a lot of the questions were based from this

8. I just had to rant

   mrsilly replied to mrsilly's topic in Operating Room

   I think it's the dishonesty that gets to me... partly because she's always using her pregnancy as an excuse for

9. I just had to rant

   mrsilly replied to mrsilly's topic in Operating Room

   So you wouldn't get angry that someone used you? I see that highly unlikely. Who cares? glad you have $50 to give someone so easily. If you were in the OR on call and stuck there, you wouldn't be...

10. I just had to rant

    mrsilly posted a topic in Operating Room

    Two weeks ago or so, I was asked/begged to take a surg tech's call because she had to do something important after work... she is a high risk pregnancy. Anyway, it was busy all day and people had to...

11. Electro dispersive pads over tattoo's

    mrsilly replied to ORMurse's topic in Operating Room

    You are not supposed to place grounding pads on tattoos because of both reasons already mentioned. Although newer tattoo inks supposedly do not have metal, it is still good practice to assume that all...

12. Unlicensed OR personnel

    mrsilly replied to CAORRN's topic in Operating Room

    There is no license, only

13. All my documentation is missing....

    mrsilly replied to gabrielle76's topic in General Nursing

    All I can say is WOW! Glad you're standing up for what's right! Also, do what caliotter3 wrote, it's a very smart idea. Keep us

14. calling report to ct icu.. to the secretary?

    mrsilly replied to RNOTODAY's topic in Operating Room

    It's also a confidentiality issue. Only the nurse taking care of the patient either in PACU or a unit should know the specifics. The unit secretary doesn't need to know anything.

15. Unlicensed OR personnel

    mrsilly replied to CAORRN's topic in Operating Room

    Otis Elevator... LOL.. that's