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Can anyone tell me does any facility now get sponges without the string?. I know we used to put an artery forcep on them when they were put in the abdomen but nowadays I find most places dont do this anymore. However we still have the string. Do we s...

Yeah I've had enough too, enough of the egos, lack of communication, expectations that OR nurses can be used in any part of a hospital, yet no other nurses are expected to come to the OR and scrub. I am sick and tired of lack of support from my manag...

Unlike most of my OR colleagues here I would caution you to think carefully. Having been in the OR for 25 years now I am at a point of giving it up. I dont think the job has changed at all, not a bit and I still love the job as much as I did when I f...

Rarely get home, so dont need to come back in, am there already

Yeah, same as Shodobe here. The guard stays until the patient is asleep. Handcuffs , leg irons off, guard leaves, stays at desk. Patient extubated, guard back at side leg irons on, depending on surgery, or handcuffs on. We never have the guard in the...

Yeah I saw this one too. My feelings are mixed as I believe if your going to bar code sponges why not other items?. I know a sponge is more likely to be lost then an instrument say, however, I feel in my heart its kind of a concept that will never ta...

RNin2007, what an awful experience for you. May I ask why dident you go to your tutor and complain, I feel you would have been entitled to. Personally I adore having students as they keep me on my toes all the time. I usually first interview my stude...

I have a lot of friends who wear TEDS, however I went to an orthopod some years ago and had inserts made for my shoes which have really made a huge difference to me. I can wear the cheapest runners but with the inserts its like walking on air all day...

In London there are public, private hospitals, clinics, ect. You have to shop around for the best deal, just as you would do for anything else in life really I guess. Just because the internet tells you one thing dosent mean its the law everywhere. A...

I cannot believe you all work so hard for so little money. Do you all belong to unions? You should get together and demand your worth. For holding the pager I expect $30 an hour. For working an hour on call I expect on a week night $ 85 an hour. I w...

Yeah, like most of the other postings we do the check x-ray in the unit. Our guys feel that as we hook the line up to the monitor immediately they can tell by the reading where the line is. However they do the x-ray afterwards. If we put in a line fo...

[color=sandybrown] my friend james recently passed his canadian exam. we both work in london, u.k. james has gotten his registration form but its asking for a criminal record check. if he waits until he gets to ottawa to do it can he work in the mea...

Passing this all on to James, thanks again

Well heres my own contribution to this posting for what its worth. I have found that the new grads who spend 12 months gaining management on the units before coming to the OR are far far better then the straight from school nurses. I believe this is ...

Thank you both of you, I passed the info onto James and he's quite worried as he had hoped to go to ottowa soon. He dosent think he can start the whole thing in London but what can he do. And why do canadian hospitals recruit foreigners if they cant ...

I guess I am biased on the topic or RN's and techs but this is a classical example of someone not trained to do a job being allowed to go outside their expertise and now wanting the same pay and recognition as the RN. The first poster is a competent ...

Your idea for setting up your counts again sounds great. I'm sure you'll iron out any wrinkles. I couldent agree with you about the extended time counting. May I ask what does your scrub do while the surgeons are closing the wounds now?. The count sh...

After many years in the OR I have decided that nurses are their own worst enemy. We rush between cases, run down corridors, do two tasks at once, miss meal breaks, so on and so forth. Lets face it we are the ones to blame when we stress ourselves out...

My only advise and this is following experience in North America is to get both your job discriptions and compare them. Then if any tech disrespects you or your role you should take the discription and show it to the tech. When its written on paper y...

Hi Sara, congrats on your RN. I dont know if this is any help but some years ago I lived in North America and like you presented my C. V. to several hospitals with little results. Then a friend advised me to ring the O.R. supervisor direct and what d...

In the OR I work in all the nurses here, and we have only RN's working throughout the OR have been told that if they knowingly reuse a one off item then they and not the hospital will take full responsibility and can be sued. After all the hospital i...

We had this situation in one of the OR's I worked in some years ago and the student was asked to leave. I was happy with that decision. I personally do not agree with non professionals being part of such a critical environment. I can only hope that s...

We dont even operate without 4 RN's in the room. For us here in my workplace only RNs care for the patients throughout their perioperative experience. The only non nursing staff who touch a patient here is the porter who helps move the patient from t...

I'm laughing sooooooooooooooo much here in London that I'm almost sick. This posting has cheered me up so much, thanks all of you!:rotfl:

yeah, sticky one this. I guess my only suggestion is to start all over again with her and see how she does. My guess is that as a very junior nurse she feels the pressure from all around her to perform to their standards and she is screwing up becaus...