ShirleyM

Just curious... What's your policy regarding students observing in the OR? By students I mean high school students who are interested in pursuing health care professions. Our patients must give written consent for any kind of student to observe surg...

I don't know if this topic has been brought up on this board... How do you handle holiday call where you work? Do you sign up for holidays or does it go by seniority? We're trying to figure out how to assign holiday call for 2007. In past years we ga...

I worked at Zale Lipshy for 3 yrs, including the first 8 months that St.Paul and Zale went under the UTSW umbrella. I did Zale's O.R internship program and worked 2 yrs afterwards. Which internship are you looking at?

I was also at the Dallas show (section 116) and I was delighted to hear him give kudos to nurses. If you haven't been to a U2 show, I encourage you to go, it's an experience you will never forget (this was my 3rd). Since Day One, U2 has always been i...

Usually trauma centers have ORs that run 24/7, including holidays,nights and weekends...you can scroll down the topics for a thread on night/evening crew for more info(I started that one). Where I work we have 1 room open two Saturdays each month ju...

For the record, AORN is and has been adamant that the circulator be a RN. They feel so strongly about this that they have been instrumental in a couple of states (Texas is one of them) passing bills that the circulator in every OR room be a RN.

I'm impressed, it sounds like you've really done your homework! Let me just say this...Toronto is a great city to live in. Make good use of the time your're there, there are lots to do and see. One of the great things about Toronto is its transit sys...

Anyone else ever feel this way or am I just the oddball in this bunch? I'd been in the market to change jobs for the past year. The right time finally came for me to find me another job and so I was offered a postion elsewhere last month (if you want...

I am looking to get new shoes..does anyone have suggestions for me? I'm looking for leather, something with great support that comes in colors other than white, is lightweight, not hard to care for and is reasonably priced. I've had Birki clogs(I fel...

Where I used to work, the only ICU patients that would be in pre-op holding were patients not on ventilators or on drips like Propofol. The place where I'm at now have all their ICU patients go from ICU straight to the OR. The surgical team goes to I...

I don't know how far Chapel is from Raleigh-Durham is, but Duke and University of North Carolina are in Chapel Hill. Good luck...

Have you checked out patterns by Mc Call? I had a pattern for scrub hats but I recently gave it to a former co-worker. I can't remember if the pattern I bought was for elastic all-round or the ones with the band on the forehead but you can check out ...

They definitely have RN-BSN programs in Ontario, it just depends on where in Ontario you plan to live in. FYI, before this year, the College of Nurses of Ontario(the licensing body for nurses in Ontario) recognized nursing diplomas and nursing degree...

Thank you to all who posted encouragement and well wishes on my new job. I started orientation last week and will be on O.R orientation for at least the next couple of weeks. Right now it's tough because the one thing they do the most here is probabl...

I can't help but feel disgusted,surprised and relieved at the same time. Disgusted because it took involvement with a 'higher-up' for consequences. And, what does that say about how nurses are viewed and valued? It's okay to behave badly to nurses bu...

I have a question about Incident/Occurrence reports and documentation... When I was in nursing school (graduated 2000), we were told never to write 'Incident form completed' in our charting. The rationale for this I was told was that incident/occurre...

Thank you Jolie, I've never heard it explained it that way before, that makes total sense to me now

Toronto has some good hospitals but since you're asking about hospitals with the greatest respect and opportunities for RNs...I'm hard pressed to give you names. I left Toronto in late 2001 but when I left, sign on bonuses, referral bonuses and tuiti...

wait a minute....i thought the whole idea of computer charting was to eliminate paper work? leave it to the higher-ups to find a way of occupying our time with yet more documentation. of course, they could take a clue from my old workplace and actual...

I had a friend who worked in Mount Sinai's ER for two years before she moved to the US. She really liked it there. Mt Sinai is just one of several teaching hospitals in Toronto. I'm sure Mount Sinai has a website, just do a search under Google. I le...

Please explain further, I'm interested in what you have to say.

Congratulations to your friend...had she tried to get a job there back in the 90s she wouldn't have been so lucky. Apparently they've learned they can't be picky with a nursing shortage now, too bad they had to learn this the hard way.

UHN= University Hospital Network. UHN is made up of the 'old' Toronto General Hospital(aka The Toronto Hospital), Princess Margaret Hospital and Toronto Western Hospital. Those three hospitals merged together in the past 10 yrs, basically because the...

Where I work, you're paid $2/hr if you're on call (aka, carry the pager). Now, if you get called in, then you get paid time and a half for a minimum of three hours. So if you get called in for an emerg cysto case and it's less than 3 hrs, you will ge...

I worked at Sunnybrook for 1 1/2 yrs before I got married and moved to the U.S. Although I worked hard there, I liked where I worked, and I have a friend who worked at UHN for a couple of years before she moved south. She kinda liked it. If you want...