preciousmofo

We use them to give lidocaine for numbing prior to an IV stick.

The OR becomes this sort of giant dysfunctional family with the surgeon being the yelling, abusive father of sorts. The beautiful, utopian "I respect all my coworkers, and enjoy working with them" facade disintegrates when the patient drifts off.....

And of course now, there are a lot more nursing compact states. Maybe you live in one!

I think giving the waste back is a peds thing. Or a special case scenario.

I worked one PACU that used "PACU - The Best Part of Waking Up" Cute.

you ARE being cheated!!!

Our policy is ICU patients do not come to holding. And definetly NOT on a propofol drip. The ICU is directly across from OR, so it's convenient. We're technically not supposed to take any drips at all, but I find that hard to really believe, because this pre-op area I work in takes ambulatory and in-patients. This hospital apparently decided to combine the old holding with the amb. pre-op. I've only been working there for about a month and I'm still trying to figure out the logic at times.

Med/Surg definitely. I worked my first 3 years on Med/Surg Tele, and I learned so much that provided a sturdy base of knowledge. You get so many different issues and illnesses, like post-ops, chronic and acute illness, respiratory, stable cardiac....it's so useful. I'm thankful for it.

Roll Tide and Good Luck!!

We used to assign a nurse on every shift to check all the MAR's before anyone left, so if something wasn't initialed, he/she would ask the person while they were still there and that nurse could sign it, and if it was a med that was missed then they worked on documenting an omission and notifying the MD if needed.

The only shift job I've had was med/surg and we taped. I liked the taping and listening because report went faster than verbals. With verbals you simply must talk about the patients' issues and there families and how much they annoy you, with taped, you listen and go on. But I do think JHACO is finding that to be a confidentiality issue now

I'm not a fan of the lidocaine for IV sticks. I work in a pre-op area and I start IV's all day and I've never used it prior even though we have a standing order for it's use. And it tends to make veins disappear in my past experience. Time consuming, more sticks.

"Just covering the whole speculum of things" is a personal favorite of mine....

Hello all! This is my first post, i just joined today!! I'm excited. lol anyway, i've only lived in phoenix for about 3 months and i looked into several hospitals. St. Luke's i don't recommend because it seems there are ALOT of pay/administration/management issues there right now. there seems to be sudden job vacancies everyday if you know what i mean. anyway, i would choose JCL, if i were doing it over ( and i might still one of these days). they seemed to have alot of good benefits and they were very nice to interview with, they just didn't have an offer in the area i wanted to stay in. anyway, hi and nice to meet all! :balloons: