I can understand the hesitation to have general anesthesia in an out patient arena but I can assure you that, as an Oral Surgery RN, our clinic performs a variety of procedures every day with IV or...
I am not finding any information on depression amoung OR nurses who have assisted with organ harvesting. A few articles actually mention the existence of OR nurses finding the experience difficult to...
Whew!!! Let me clear some things up here. I am a RN X 22 years, 15 in ICU/CCU, 4 in PACU and now 2 in an Oral Surgery Clinic. We do IV sedations as well as general anesthesia, IN THE CLINIC, for a...
I have worked at MAMC for 7 years this month. I worked in one of the two ICU's they have, named ICU-East (includes peds, PICU) and ICU-West (includes post hearts and IABP's). Both are great places...
Ugh! Up until one time in my nursing career, I would have had a hard time believing what you wrote except I too witnessed what I thought was a horrific practice of piling dead bodies in two and...
Thanks to those who replied to my question about participating in an organ harvesting, very insightful responses you gave. I will use the responses in my CE (not verbatim, but generalized). The...
thanks for replying! I pictured myself in that room that you described. Very somber indeed. Reminded me of the Parkland ER (Dallas) when a trauma victim died. A lot of "could that be me". I haven't...
Thanks Alyce for replying, I am really surprised no one has done a study on the topic for their masters degree, or some other reason. AORN for OR nurses has touched on the topic in their article in...