SurgicalTechCST

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  1. Only Crusty Old Bats will remember..

    SurgicalTechCST replied to Pepper The Cat's topic in General Nursing

    Yes! We earned our caps in LPN school too, and each advance quarter (this school - the largest two year state college network in the country) was on quarters then, not semesters) got us a short light...

  2. Only Crusty Old Bats will remember..

    SurgicalTechCST replied to Pepper The Cat's topic in General Nursing

    No, but I was known to stop and move my Mayo stand back away from the OR bed, effectively stopping the case, until his (it seems it was never a female surgeon) very unsafe behavior was dealt with. At...

  3. Only Crusty Old Bats will remember..

    SurgicalTechCST replied to Pepper The Cat's topic in General Nursing

    I started in Surgery in 1993, and had done clinicals while in school at a hospital where one of the surgeons had BEEN a surgeon during WWII. He was the stereotypical "grouchy old fart" who was known...

  4. Only Crusty Old Bats will remember..

    SurgicalTechCST replied to Pepper The Cat's topic in General Nursing

  5. What do you call the tracking device nurses sometimes wear?

    SurgicalTechCST replied to klone's topic in General Nursing

    The last hospital I worked at had them, and they were primarily used to locate a particular nurse when their patient was on the call bell, so they could call into the right room. The one place they...

  6. What should one do in this case?

    SurgicalTechCST replied to Nursein2017's topic in Patient, Colleague Relations

    Having been the product of what from all outside appearances was a "normal middle class home life" but was really a pit of despair in a private, abusive hell all my own at the hands of an...

  7. I&D...sterile procedure?

    SurgicalTechCST replied to deefizzle's topic in General Nursing

    My personal favorite "go to" phrase in company of both mixed and new, unknown construct is "Jimminy Christmas!!" Never fails to get a smile, a giggle or at least a grin out of

  8. Breakroom refrigerator theft

    SurgicalTechCST replied to Emergent's topic in General Nursing

    My first job out of school, I worked in the ORs of a medium sized county hospital - more than 150 beds, less than 300 - and sometimes if the cafeteria was especially busy and full, we would get our...

  9. As EpiPen Prices Skyrocket, Nurses Suggesting Patients Use Syringes

    SurgicalTechCST replied to DoGoodThenGo's topic in Patient Medications

    I bet if Mom had to draw up and give insulin shots to her kiddies, or even herself, then she'd not be nearly as squeamish. Talk about life saving injection there.....But, in the face of a crisis, a...

  10. As EpiPen Prices Skyrocket, Nurses Suggesting Patients Use Syringes

    SurgicalTechCST replied to DoGoodThenGo's topic in Patient Medications

    Mylan to launch a cheaper, generic version of EpiPen - LA Times Here's some new information as of yesterday

  11. Unconventional hair colors

    SurgicalTechCST replied to ScientistSalarian's topic in General Nursing

    Easy Peasy - get a wig.. you can try out any color you like "off hours" with no possibility of affecting your working relationships. AND you can try out more than one style at the same time! Just make...

  12. refusing assignment

    SurgicalTechCST replied to texas_rn11's topic in Agency Nurses

    Very likely why they can't keep staff too, if that's the kind of attitude that is allowed to prevail and flourish - "Nobody cares if YOU..." Or about you. That's obvious. You are agency, so suck it...

  13. Judge Sends Man to Prison Because He Can't Pay Hospital Bill

    SurgicalTechCST replied to SunnyPupRN's topic in Nursing News

    Over a period of six years, and even more checks? Doubtful. Possible, since many banks were caught doing it, and not only penalized for it, but required to change their posting practices, but...

  14. Judge Sends Man to Prison Because He Can't Pay Hospital Bill

    SurgicalTechCST replied to SunnyPupRN's topic in Nursing News

    From 2008 -

  15. Judge Sends Man to Prison Because He Can't Pay Hospital Bill

    SurgicalTechCST replied to SunnyPupRN's topic in Nursing News

    I totally agree with you there. This sounds very much like the pre-Miranda Rights days, not the 21st century. Being forced to sign away your rights to counsel before you even enter a courtroom sounds...

  16. I have 60 grand of student loan when I finished BSN

    SurgicalTechCST replied to Sam. W's topic in General Nursing

    Not only that, it does NOT pay off your total loan debt, for your commitment to the program. As quoted: " Learn More Nurse Corps Loan Repayment Program This program application cycle closed on...

  17. I have 60 grand of student loan when I finished BSN

    SurgicalTechCST replied to Sam. W's topic in General Nursing

    From the Loan Repayment Program | Indian Health Service (IHS) website - "The IHS Loan Repayment Program (LRP) can help dedicated health professionals like you chart a course for a long-lasting and...

  18. I have 60 grand of student loan when I finished BSN

    SurgicalTechCST replied to Sam. W's topic in General Nursing

    How long ago? The military is tightening up on enlistments lately, and I have seen in several military forums - Air Force, Navy, Army, which are the only ones to have Nurse Corps - that they are not...

  19. Mr. Harry the Excessive Hair Patient

    SurgicalTechCST replied to Barbie8808's topic in General Nursing

    Or even be

  20. Mr. Harry the Excessive Hair Patient

    SurgicalTechCST replied to Barbie8808's topic in General Nursing

    I add my condolences, my sympathy AND my empathy for your circumstances, and those of every other victim of such a heinous crime. I can speak clearly and thoughtfully to those who have been so...

  21. Work declining vacation request?

    SurgicalTechCST replied to bunnynurse's topic in General Nursing

    I have also worked - both in health care and in my alternate life prior to working in health care - where that was already standing policy. (This covers some considerable length of time too, as my...

  22. OR Nurses

    SurgicalTechCST replied to cmp137's topic in Operating Room

    If it doesn't bother your skin, I know a couple of people who used a small piece of paper tape across the top of the mask over the bridge of the nose, and it pretty much eliminated the fogging...

  23. Room Turnover -- How to get faster?

    SurgicalTechCST replied to hereinlc's topic in Operating Room

    Done and done. Sometimes I get going, and can't quite find a stopping place!

  24. Room Turnover -- How to get faster?

    SurgicalTechCST replied to hereinlc's topic in Operating Room

    Or, you have NO extra people available in the staffing that are designated to assist with room tunovers. I have worked in a couple of places where the circulator was not the least bit helpful in...

  25. Do Bachelor's Degrees Save Lives? - The Facts about Earning a BSN

    SurgicalTechCST replied to Rasmussen University's topic in General Nursing

    England is going through a complete upheaval in their nursing education system though. Apparently the government is proposing (read that likely "requiring") nursing students, and midwifery students,...