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A surgeon ripped me apart today in front another nurse, a CRNA and a PA. I fully plan to write him up, but now I'm not sure that I should submit it or just keep it in my files at home since I received an apology which I felt was sincere after the ca...

He is crazy as a ****house rat, although I think his substance of abuse is bacon. He has been written up 4 x in the past 3 weeks ( yes I am one of the four). I have never gotten any kind of feedback any time that I have written any surgeon up, so I d...

I would like to smack the nurse that first told a surgeon that we keep preference cards!

Sigh. I know, you're right, I just have to stiffen my backbone and do it. Thank you.

When I woke my DH on Wednesday morning with the words "Honey, I have some bad news", he said"Oh, no, do we have to move?"

Yes, very often it did work for that shift, but it really p*****d off the oncoming shift, so we used it judiciously.

It took me a while to learn to accept my physical limitations, and to say, "thank you" when someone younger/stronger offers to lift a patient or a heavy basket of instruments or a traction setup ( I work in an OR). I resented it at first, but I decid...

I actually love the smell of benzoin, but not in the amount that you describe! We used benzoin on the skin to both toughen the skin and hold the adhesive tape on the dressing. We changed dressings once a day, and if the skin wasn't protected by the b...

I work in the OR now, but worked on a post-op/stepdown ICU floor from 1976-1979. All elective surgery patients were admitted at least a day ahead of surgery, sometimes a couple of days if tests were needed. One OLD on-gym had quite a setup going for ...

We tied a knot in the bottom sheet to prevent the patient from dying on our shift!

Pick of the litter

Hmmm.. Why is an anesthesiologist criticizing your prep? And how is that telling the physician what to do? If you're on orientation, where was your preceptor? It sounds to me like you're well out of there.

You DO have patient interaction, and it is the perfect amount for me. You talk to the patient in prep area and when they enter the OR. Then the anesthesia provider takes over and the general anesthetic or sedation takes effect. My "personality tests"...

One of the first guys I dated after college grew up in a household with 4 boys, only girl in the house was his mom. He honestly believed that girls did not fart! He knew that we pooped, but thought that we never farted. He was in for quite a shock wh...

As I read over what I wrote, I don't mean to imply that you did anything wrong, you and the scrub nurse both confirmed the settings, he just wasn't listening.

No matter what you say, or what format is used for timeouts and/or giving information about the case ( bovie settings, tourniquet pressure, Meds on the field, or anything either routine or out of the ordinary, ) my experience is that 97% of surgeons ...

I worry a lot less about driving in to work than walking from the parking lot into the hospital. The sidewalk and street is usually very slushy/icy, and I am very nervous about walking on them. The maintanence workers usually do a path, not the whole...

For me, it's SO much more fun to scrub! You're right there where the action is,you know what is going on at the field. Whether I scrub or circulate, I take pride in taking care of my patient, it's just that it's more technical when I scrub. As I have...

Oh no, Spiker, I wasn't clear. I have worked in the OR for 36 years! I meant that the OR is my niche. I'm good at it because I have to only concentrate on one patient and one case at a time. As a floor nurse, I was too distracted by having 5 or 6 pa...

I love taking care of one patient at a time, as I have taken the personality tests, and I am very task oriented. I can multi task within the parameters of one surgical case, but I was a terrible floor nurse, as I was disorganized and distracted by ha...

What is "an 15-18 puffs"?

Write it up. There should be a physician behavior form, or if not, write it in longhand or word processor. This should go through the chain of command, starting with the charge nurse, service co-ordinator or nurse manager. No one can do anything if t...

As a new graduate of about 3 months, I was running a post surgical floor with 2 aides that spent most of the nights hiding in the utility room, when I had to call a surgeon and tell him that one of his patients had pulled out a central line, and we (...

Every time I have a heavy/ obese patient, and someone has a snotty comment about the patient's weight, I always ask if they would say the same thing about me. There is no correct answer to that question. If the answer is no, then they can't talk abou...

Haven't been on the site in a while,so forgive the late response. PLEASE cut yourself some slack! You're brand new to the OR, and you're starting in the heart rooms and you're feeling rattled?I guess you are! You have to give yourself some time to ge...