ChristineAdrianaRN BSN, RN

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    What you wish you could say to the staff at your school

    ChristineAdrianaRN replied to Purple_Scrubs's topic in School

    So how many of you get an actual break for lunch and how many work through lunch everyday? The nurse I've been talking with says because the lunch is considered paid lunch, you work through it. You...
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    Vent- Sending students to Health room minutes before dismissed to home

    ChristineAdrianaRN replied to OnlybyHisgraceRN's topic in School

    Okay, this could be my naivete talking, as I am not a school nurse, but is it possible these kids are coming in on their own accord after they've been dismissed from class? Maybe they didn't want to...
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    What you wish you could say to the staff at your school

    ChristineAdrianaRN replied to Purple_Scrubs's topic in School

    Holy crap, guys. I just had my interview yesterday and it went really well, but now I am starting to rethink this possible job change!
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    Need Advice: Defibrillator Training

    ChristineAdrianaRN replied to intheweeds's topic in School

    I wouldn't. Even if you know how to use it, you haven't been certified to teach it. Like Viejas said, it's your license!
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    What do you go by?

    ChristineAdrianaRN replied to Flare's topic in School

    All I can say is that I'm glad you asked this question, because I wondered it
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    How to fund going to School Nurse Conferences?

    ChristineAdrianaRN replied to Spidey's mom's topic in School

    I am not a school nurse, but I am in the process of applying and have talked fairly extensively with the head nurse of the district. I asked her about professional development and she said that...
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    Just Amazed

    ChristineAdrianaRN replied to SchoolNurseTXstyle's topic in School

    Um, wow. Pretty sure she was referring to the pants having peepee on them, and not the students themselves. And even if she as referring to the student, she clearly would not say it to a student or...
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    Just Amazed

    ChristineAdrianaRN replied to SchoolNurseTXstyle's topic in School

    *blink* What's wrong with "peepee
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    Hands breaking out

    ChristineAdrianaRN replied to mercys's topic in Operating Room

    It took me two months to figure out I was allergic to the non-latex gloves (especially because it was a developed allergy - I had made no changes so I couldn't figure it out!). It just wasn't on my...
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    Double gloving?

    ChristineAdrianaRN replied to NursePaul70's topic in Operating Room

    We don't have latex gloves, but whatever they are made out of (polyisoprene?), I am allergic to, and the alternative is some very thick gloves as well. I double glove for all the reasons listen above,...
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    Hand off information from pre op

    ChristineAdrianaRN replied to redpup1001's topic in Operating Room

    Yes. If I call during the end of the case before the patient to have them pre-op medicate with Versed, I'll ask for it then. If not, I get it face-to-face when I'm picking up the patient. If I won't...
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    How to break into school nursing

    ChristineAdrianaRN replied to ChristineAdrianaRN's topic in School

    Thought of another question. If we are speaking in terms of "annual salary", that is for the nine months of the school year and not the summer, right? So technically you could work somewhere else...
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    CNOR cert; ACLS/PALS cert

    ChristineAdrianaRN replied to ChristineAdrianaRN's topic in Operating Room

    I guess I should also generally ask: Did your workplace pay for AORN membership? CNOR certification? ACLS/PALS? My workplace doesn't pay for any of it, but I was curious whether this was
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    CNOR cert; ACLS/PALS cert

    ChristineAdrianaRN replied to ChristineAdrianaRN's topic in Operating Room

    Exactly this. When I said that I wanted to be PALS certified and the response was, "Oh you don't need to know that, anesthesia runs the codes" it just seemed so odd to me. Why WOULDN'T you want your...
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    Flipping supplies/instruments

    ChristineAdrianaRN replied to penny77's topic in Operating Room

    If at all possible, I let the scrub nurse take it out of the packaging herself rather than flip it onto her field. If there is no one scrubbed in, then yes, I flip it. The other way I was taught was...
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    "I don't need a scrub nurse for this case"...

    ChristineAdrianaRN replied to ORgoodie's topic in Operating Room

    I would think that it would take longer for the resident to figure out how to set everything up! I guess those are very well trained residents. It seems to me, though, that the resident has enough to...
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    Phrases and puns unique to the OR (Tales of a new OR nurse)

    ChristineAdrianaRN posted a topic in Operating Room

    The first time a resident said to me, "Wanna dance?" I stared at him, confused, blushed a little, and said, "No, not really," until I realized he meant do I want to turn so I can tie my gown. Whenever...
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    OR going Green?

    ChristineAdrianaRN replied to mactheknife's topic in Operating Room

    We do a lot of recycling as well. A lot of things, like the bovies and the coblators, get reprocessed. Other things, like the light handles, get recycled. We send them down with our dirty cart to...
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    Phrases and puns unique to the OR (Tales of a new OR nurse)

    ChristineAdrianaRN replied to ChristineAdrianaRN's topic in Operating Room

    Oh, I thought of another one. Whenever an instrument is dropped, the scrub will ask me, "Can you turn the gravity down in here?" The first time I heard it, I looked around, puzzled, for this so-called...
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    Etiquette in the OR?

    ChristineAdrianaRN replied to trauma_lama's topic in Operating Room

    WORD. Ick. :/ OP, I am right there with you. I am disgusted by what you encountered. It's one thing to be frustrated by a patient's weight - and yes, I've been there, as we all have - and I understand...
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    tell me about your brainless moments

    ChristineAdrianaRN replied to goats'r'us's topic in Operating Room

    Oh, and similar to the OP, I've gone and scrubbed, gowned, and gloved, only to realize I didn't have my mask up. D'oh! Luckily someone put it on for me so I didn't have to re-scrub, but I definitely...
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    tell me about your brainless moments

    ChristineAdrianaRN replied to goats'r'us's topic in Operating Room

    I have rolled patients into the PACU and forgotten to call and tell them we were coming, and of course they made me feel like crap about it. My biggest screw up may be when I turbined a head and...
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    "What I Really Do" meme

    ChristineAdrianaRN replied to ChristineAdrianaRN's topic in Operating Room

    Oh, I didn't use a generator. Might have been easier if I had known about it. I just used MS paint. Feel free to take the OR nursing one if you like. I stole the pics off the internet, so it's not...
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    Cranial Bone Flap Falls to the Floor During a Craniotomy

    ChristineAdrianaRN replied to gymnut's topic in Operating Room

    LOL! If only! Hasn't happened where I work, but at the hospital across the street its apparently happened, and they also did the flash sterilizaition/Baci soaking
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    On call... 24 hours??

    ChristineAdrianaRN replied to Epona's topic in Operating Room

    The likelihood that one would actually work all those hours is very slim. That sounds like a typical situation. However, at my job, we only do 8 and 10s, so it would be more likely one would work 7-3,...