Gottago

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1. Graduating nursing school but I just want to scrub

   Gottago replied to Axmann, RN, BSN, NREMT-B's topic in Operating Room

   You don't have to become a RN to circulate or first assist. You could become a scrub, or surgical technician, and have the option of scrubbing, circulating, or even becoming a surgical first assist....

2. Ask an OR nurse (Questions about what we do or how to become one of us)

   Gottago replied to Rose_Queen's topic in Operating Room

   Worked OR and PACU. Understand your bad image as glorified go-fear, and sometimes it is that, but there is often much more needing to be done, particularly in terms of setup that is not seen nor known...

3. OR RN position for FNP or CRNA

   Gottago replied to alalani3's topic in Operating Room

   CRNA programs not requiring ICU/Critical Care...??? List

4. The Controversy: Mandatory Flu Vaccines

   Gottago replied to Julie Reyes's topic in General Nursing

   Started the investigation, but welcome others to do the same. Here is a copy of my request which I just submitted to NPR: I am looking for a copy of an interview Terry Gross did with a female...

5. The Controversy: Mandatory Flu Vaccines

   Gottago replied to Julie Reyes's topic in General Nursing

   I have looked also on their website, but it doesn't seem to have shows from that far back, which is not surprising since the Internet was not as developed then as today. I have often thought of...

6. The Controversy: Mandatory Flu Vaccines

   Gottago replied to Julie Reyes's topic in General Nursing

   Heard an interview back in 1990's, probably 1994, on the NPR radio show, Fresh Air with Terry Gross. She was interviewing the scientist from the CDC who was in charge of making the flu vaccine....

7. OR RN position for FNP or CRNA

   Gottago replied to alalani3's topic in Operating Room

   Yep, Rose Queen is correct. Lots of good

8. Do you follow the AANA-ASA statement re: Safe Admin of Propofol?

   Gottago posted a topic in Gastroenterology

   "Whenever propofol is used for sedation/anesthesia, it should be administered only by persons trained in the administration of general anesthesia, who are NOT SIMULTANEOUSLY INVOLVED in these surgical...

9. Moderate Sedation-Propofol

   Gottago replied to Gottago's topic in Certified Registered Nurse Anesthetist, CRNA

   Thank

10. What's the most propofol you seen administered during an endo procedure?

    Gottago posted a topic in Gastroenterology

    What's the most propofol you have seen administered during an endoscopic procedure? Not wanting to discuss who administered the dose: doctor, CRNA, nurse, etc. Discussion of average dose for various...

11. Moderate Sedation-Propofol

    Gottago replied to Gottago's topic in Certified Registered Nurse Anesthetist, CRNA

    Thank you for your response. I should have not termed the sedation as moderate sedation, but rather MAC, since I do forget CRNAs don't provide moderate sedation (think I read due to insurance...

12. Moderate Sedation-Propofol

    Gottago posted a topic in Certified Registered Nurse Anesthetist, CRNA

    I have never read a standard regarding maximum dosage of propofol for moderate sedation. I've read mean dosages, and policies regarding such average dosages, specifically for endoscopic procedures,...

13. Code Blue in OR

    Gottago posted a topic in Certified Registered Nurse Anesthetist, CRNA

    While a patient is in the OR, and the patient becomes a code blue, who pushes IV meds in your facility, CRNA or

14. Lost suture/instrument...

    Gottago posted a topic in Operating Room

    When a suture or instrument has been lost (cannot be accounted for after the final count), who is responsible, scrub or circulator (the focus of this question is solely based upon a lost item, not an...