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  1. Fifty Ways to Leave Your....

    laughnsmile replied to UM Review RN's topic in General Nursing

    Stated reason: More opportunity for growth, more experience to move up in the world. closer to home. Real reason: My boss was psychotic, railroading me at every opportunity, kept me on a constant...

  2. Hello just passed the boards.. Is O.R a good choice for a 1st job as a nurse?

    laughnsmile replied to lpjmmb's topic in Operating Room

    Call me old fashioned, but I still say a year or so on a floor is never a bad thing. You get to use all those nursing skills you labored so hard to learn, and if you ever decide the OR is not for...

  3. hostility in the OR

    laughnsmile posted a topic in Operating Room

    I know there have been threads previous to this one regarding the hostility found in some of our OR's, but I have a new little situation that has been heating up my neck for some time now. My boss...

  4. hostility in the OR

    laughnsmile replied to laughnsmile's topic in Operating Room

    Well, as a followup, I incidentally reported her to HR... The very next week we had an inservice about intimidation in the hospital workplace (what in the where???!!! never!) Because of that I talked...

  5. need information regarding order of cases

    laughnsmile posted a topic in Operating Room

    I work in a small hospital where we do a little bit of everything, but have been increasing the number of total joint cases that we do. When I was trained to the OR, I had to spend 3 of my many...

  6. Ab or vag prep first?

    laughnsmile replied to IVyPush-her's topic in Operating Room

    It's funny, cause I just read this somewhere on AORN's website. They recommended that the abdomen be done first, then the vag prep, then the cath, if needed. The reasoning for this being 1)...

  7. Bovie Smoke

    laughnsmile replied to stevierae's topic in Operating Room

    I started working in my OR in September and noticed without exception that we use a smoke-evac on all our cases. Apparently some Dr's *****ed pretty heavily but due to our supervisors previous...

  8. Whats your typical pt load?

    laughnsmile replied to hospicemom's topic in Medical-Surgical

    As primary I'll have as few as 3 and as much as 6. Today I started with 3, got 2 admits and had no unit clerk. I'm a little tired needless to say.:stone With an LPN we'll get anywhere from 6 to 9...

  9. Funniest injury you have ever seen.....

    laughnsmile replied to MrsWampthang's topic in Emergency

    My patient's roommate in bed #2 was reeeaaaly loud and obnoxious... the type of patient who answers the questions bed #1's doc is asking bed #1 (when was your last BM? Oh he had a BIG one...