Sun 23 Apr, 2006 04:29 pm - I agree we can be our own worst enemies. I try to keep new people away from certain staff members & docs as long as I can. We have a couple people who've run off several people. Problem... (view)
Sat 22 Apr, 2006 10:13 pm - We're constantly flip flopping rooms. We usually just move the cases--not the crew. If a room finishes or has down time, we'll run another case in it. Our anesthesia people hate moving... (view)
Fri 21 Apr, 2006 04:38 pm - What do you mean swap for doctors? Do you mean move cases around from room to room? We do that a lot. Anything to move the schedule around. I hate it when I'm in a room, but understand it... (view)
Sun 16 Apr, 2006 07:43 am - We have a few good CS people, but most of them are so underpaid they could care less. We has a person who washes instruments, then they're taken downstairs to the main CS & processed.... (view)
Mon 10 Apr, 2006 03:27 pm - We have a call crew on 3-11 just for emergencies. There are 3 crews working until 7pm, then they go down to 2 crews until 11. They aren't supposed to use the call team for scheduled... (view)
Sun 9 Apr, 2006 03:34 pm - You guys sound like us! The rest of the hospital avoids us like the plague because we're so mean! LOL! We usually get 2-3 new grads each year & it's been 10 years since anyone of... (view)
Sun 9 Apr, 2006 10:26 am - We have to do c-sections. If it's an emergency, we do them on OB, if scheduled, we do them in the OR. That's a real sore spot with us! Poor OB staff just too short to learn to do their... (view)
Sat 8 Apr, 2006 08:16 pm - We have 8 rooms & a cysto room in the main OR, plus 2 cataract rooms in an adjacent building & 2 c-section rooms in our OB dept. We do probably 800 cases /month. I'm always... (view)
Sat 8 Apr, 2006 01:03 pm - Shortage
I'm our educator/relief charge & I've been in rooms for weeks now. The regular charge nurse is in a room lots of days. Our nurse manager has had to act as charge & our... (view)
Mon 3 Apr, 2006 04:56 pm - Sorry, but I have to disagree that people with no floor experience are at a loss in the OR. Some of our strongest nurses have no floor experience, myself included. I love getting new grads in... (view)
