JaneRNBSN

I'm an RN with surgical experience, wannabe nursery nurse. Since I could not get hired without experience, I took a birth doula workshop and ended up working as a staff doula. I get all the fun and none of the responsibility! I also became a certi...

i'm a staff doula and i work under the nurse's supervision; ie getting pt out of bed, to the br, i always ask before i do that. our common goal is the safety of mom and baby. everything else is just "fluff":typing

may i ask what turned you off about doulas, lisa?

I went to a Doula workshop and found a hospital that uses doulas as staff! I love it! Check us out at http://www.dona.org

After only 6 years in the OR as a circulating nurse, I have burned out and retired. The surgeons have humiliated me and my collegues relentlessly. We just have to take it. Personally I felt powerless until someone in P.T. asked me to write up a ce...

I'm a newcomer to AA and a former surgical nurse. With the help of My Higher Power and AA, I will reach 30 days on March 12th. My childhood memories are dominated by fear, uncertainty, insecurity and bitterness toward my father. He too was an alc...

Sounds to me like you are mad at yourself for getting his clipboard for him. I know I would be kicking myself all the way home!

You won't BELIEVE this story! As a relatively new circulator, I was asked to give CS to my patient during a hernia repair under LOCAL anesthesia! I told my supervisor that I was not comfortable with the situation, so she and the doc agreed that HE ...

How about this one? WHAT MAKES ORTHOPODS SUCH ASSHOLES?????

As a PACU nurse in a small rural hospital, this sacred cow really does need to be euthenized. Hypotensive patients are routinely put into Trendelenberg; research has suggested that this can "trick" the sensors in the Aortic arch which can result in ...

I disagree with the nurse who instructed the resident to help with TEDS, etc. As a circulator, I am already rushing to get things done and any help from a doc is regarded as rushing me further. I've worked with some real pills who scream, throw tan...

Your question about advancing your career in the OR, how about RNFA? The first assistant has lots of responsibilities, including closing the skin after surgery!

Boy, who wouldn't love to shoot their mouth off? I have fantasized many many times about putting those "gods" in their place.

I too went straight to OR nursing after graduation. I had NO IDEA what I was doing, but my preceptor and I are very good friends to this day. She showed me the ropes and took time to answer all of my questions. That was over 10 years ago. A few n...

How about sending her to a perioperative nursing course? I attended one for 6 weeks when I was a newly hired grad. There's so very much to learn and trying to learn it in a stressful, hurried setting is not the optimal learning environment.

This is bizarre, but very sad. A young paraplegic tried to commit suicide by sawing through both upper thighs with a butter knife! Someone caught him before he made it to the arteries. He lived.

Never had an instrument thrown at me. It's amazing all the tantrums I've witnessed firsthand, all the verbal abuse directed at me and my collegues. These docs at my facility stop short of throwing things at nurses. I wrote up one particularly nast...

TO CINDYBETH: I worked in OR as a circulator/recovery RN and I understand how you feel. I burned out after only 6 years. The surgeons were the main reason I quit. As you said, they are arrogant, whining little boys! And to add insult to injury...

Who CARES about the hospital. I've never seen or heard of an institution going to bat for a nurse, why should we care about the hospital????

Well, it seems that as long as you make money you can put up with anything. How very very sad.

Yeah, I can. A friend of mine made an observation recently...."Move to the left, move to the right, faster, slower, OH NEVERMIND, I'LL DO IT MYSELF! That's what it's like to be married to this jerk. LOL :chuckle

To Miranda, I worked in the OR and was constantly berated and humiliated by a few choice surgeons. I understood that, as a circulator, my responsibility was to keep the procedure running smoothly so that the pt. was under anesthesia for as little ti...

You are absolutely right about standing up for myself and I couldn't agree more. BUT, since I am no longer working, the opportunity to put him in his place will not present itself again. At this point, I am trying to support my collegues who have n...

As a new grad starting my first job in the surgery department, I was so eager to do a good job that I encountered a LOL in the hallway after taking a pt from surgery back to his room. This LOL was in a w/c shuffling her feet and holding onto the hand...

I have been in the OR for six years and have never heard of time out. What is it? We were doing an arthroscopy on a young gentleman....depending on the surgeon either he/she or the nurse marks the limb after asking the pt which we are doing. We g...