lozstar BSN, MSN, RN

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About lozstar

Operating room nurse for seven years. Works in the scrub, scout and anaesthetic nurse role. Favourite specialities include cardiac and neurosurgery. I am interested in doing trauma in the future. I enjoy education and humanitarian work.

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  1. I am responsible for teaching a new nurse to scrub, gown and glove. Last week I gave the new nurse the hospital policy on scrubbing, gowning and gloving and also asked her to read the section on this...
  2. Hi everyone I would love to hear about how you orientate new nurses to your departments. For instance, is there a certain structure that you follow? Do you have a checklist that you use? I have...
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    What do OR nurses do anyway?

    As mentioned before by other people before there are distinct roles in the operating room - the scout nurse, scrub nurse and anaesthetic nurse. Depending on where you work some of these roles may...
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    On-call in the OR

    That is interesting CIRQL8 what you have said about calling in a second on-call team. So does that mean you have two on-call teams on all the time? How many staff do you have working in your OR? Our...
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    On-call in the OR

    Hi everyone I have been an operating room nurse for nearly eight years. I really enjoy what I do but I have had dreadful call ins over the last month. Over one weekend I worked an extra 20 hours on...