TraumaORnurse

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  1. Moving to Mississippi

    TraumaORnurse posted a topic in General Nursing

    Hello. I am potentially moving to the Meridian, MS area this summer and am beginning to look at hospitals and jobs in the area and so far I'm not finding much. I have almost 12 years experience, 3.5...

  2. Who Runs Your Operating Room?

    TraumaORnurse replied to msn10's topic in Operating Room

    Charge nurses runs ours..m If there are issues we call our Trauma Anesthesiologist to triage...(s)he has to be the bad guy sometimes, but it's more helpful for doctor to doctor discuss when bumping a...

  3. Transplant Team in your OR?

    TraumaORnurse replied to TXPediORRN's topic in Operating Room

    We do kidney and pancreas transplants and do not have a dedicated team...we average 5 kidney transplants a month, pancreas is pretty rare and it's always in combination with a kidney. During the day...

  4. Nursing in Indianapolis

    TraumaORnurse replied to rbc2093's topic in Indiana Nursing

    IU Health laid off a large number of nurses. The majority of people St Vincent laid off we're not direct patient care staff, it was mainly unit clerks and cutting/combining management and directors....

  5. STAT C-Section, Local anesthesia only.

    TraumaORnurse replied to AngelaLyons's topic in Operating Room

    I'm shocked that any hospital with OB services isn't required to have Anesthesia in house 24/7 for situations like this! Sounds like the hospital needs to investigate

  6. Charting Bathing/Grooming/Dressing for FIMS

    TraumaORnurse replied to Cehurstrn's topic in Rehabilitation

    When I was a rehab manager, I had all of my techs go through basic FIMs training so they understood what the nurses were looking for. They then were able to tell the nurse in better detail what the...

  7. Are there 10 hr shifts in Nursing??

    TraumaORnurse replied to firstinfamily's topic in Nursing Career

    We have 10 hr shifts in the

  8. Preventable deaths while incarcerated.

    TraumaORnurse replied to toomuchbaloney's topic in Correctional

    Sadly I'm not surprised. I recently had 2 young, otherwise healthy prisoners nearly die due to poor care while in prison. The first was in a fight & his head rammed into a cement wall. Per...

  9. When A Nurse Needs A Doctor.....

    TraumaORnurse replied to nurse2211's topic in Patient, Colleague Relations

    As an OR nurse, needing surgery means having staff you work with routinely, which I actually felt to be more comforting. I knew my surgeon was phenomenal because I had worked with him so many times...

  10. How is the job market in Indiana?

    TraumaORnurse replied to ccr0011's topic in Indiana Nursing

    Most hospitals won't even look at your application until you pass your boards and are licensed in the state. You cannot work or even do orientation in a hospital until you have it. So they don't want...

  11. Indianapolis RN jobs?

    TraumaORnurse replied to pinkbob4's topic in Indiana Nursing

    The larger Indy hospitals are still trying to recover from the changes last year that led to layoffs. It is starting to pick back up, however, as you said patients aren't staying in the hospital as...

  12. Scrub caps

    TraumaORnurse replied to jessterns's topic in Operating Room

    My hospital allows us to wear them but we are required to wear a bouffant cap over. They are now enforcing this with the surgeons, which hadn't been done

  13. How to get into Periop Nursing

    TraumaORnurse replied to rnkv's topic in Operating Room

    Most large hospital systems offer peri-op training programs, basically paid on the job training. Mine was 6 months, during which time we did the AORN peri-op 101 program and learned the ins and outs...

  14. RN refresher

    TraumaORnurse replied to kokomoGirl's topic in Indiana Nursing

    Community Health used to offer one. Not sure if they still do but worth checking in to if you're still

  15. Best Burn Centers in US??

    TraumaORnurse replied to guest454229's topic in Burn

    Richard M. Fairbanks Burn Center at Eskenazi Health in Indianapolis, IN is a phenomenal burn center. Eskenazi (formerly Wishard) is a Level 1 Trauma Center and is (I believe) Indiana's only adult burn...

  16. transferring from outpatient to acute care operating room

    TraumaORnurse replied to muddmz11's topic in Operating Room

    I work FT in a hospital and PRN at a surgery center, circulating ORs at both. The biggest difference is the patient population. At a surgery center, patients are generally healthy, with little to no...

  17. Do you dream about work?

    TraumaORnurse replied to joyful_wanderer's topic in General Nursing

    I frequent have work related dreams. I work trauma surgery and last year when I was off after having surgery, I had nightly dreams of traumas. My surgeon (also one of my trauma surgeons) thought I was...

  18. Eggcrate pads

    TraumaORnurse replied to wakyone's topic in Operating Room

    We use pink gel foam type pads, probably similar to what you're talking about. The pad comes with a draw sheet & foam straps to assist in securing the patient. For larger patients we use a...

  19. OR nurses don't deal with PCAs

    TraumaORnurse replied to NurseStelri's topic in Operating Room

    In my facility, PCAs are discontinued by the floor nurse prior to coming to the OR so we don't ever see

  20. Post-operative gas pains

    TraumaORnurse replied to Double-Helix's topic in Pediatric

    After multiple laparoscopic surgeries and enduring the shoulder pain, I finally found the only thing that helped was a heating pad on my shoulder. It helped tremendously and the last two surgeries...

  21. Communication Tools in the OR

    TraumaORnurse replied to ORRN4evr's topic in Operating Room

    Our PCTs have Voceras, so we can easily reach them. Our patient tracking system is also linked to their Vocera so when we click "procedure end" they are notified to come help with transfers and...

  22. Oxygen Tank Carriers

    TraumaORnurse replied to ORRN4evr's topic in Operating Room

    At my hospital all of our transport carts have a place to put the O2 tank, as do some of the newer critical care beds. However, most of the floor beds do not and we lay the tank on the bed during...

  23. Reps in the OR

    TraumaORnurse replied to ORRN4evr's topic in Operating Room

    Our reps are required to change in to burgundy scrubs. We have a vendor locker room stocked with only these scrubs. Our regulars have a hospital badge that allows them access to that locker room and...

  24. surgical count

    TraumaORnurse replied to IQ168's topic in Operating Room

    We only count instruments for open cavities. The exception is kids under 25 pounds. We generally don't count on laparoscopic cases unless there's a high probability of

  25. Blood Collection for Epidural Blood Patch

    TraumaORnurse replied to BlueBird4's topic in Pain Management

    While I don't have nursing experience in it, I have had my fair share of epidural blood patches. Each one I've had done, the blood was drawn into a syringe just like you would draw blood for labs....