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Hi, The VASER is fairly new for use in the pediatric population. Anyone have helpful hints on minimum ...
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Wonderful news! We can now offer the BSW Expert Witness Course for FREE!! Please take a look at the poster attached ...
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Hello. I am looking to fine tune and update our ASC's PACU form for patients undergoing procedures involving ...

@Jennifer Gartenberg Great question! I would be interested in this topic too! Any new guidelines or scared cows ...
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Hi! I am a fairly new nurse educator in the OR and I have not had much experience with OB-GYN procedures a question was ...
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For the event time in EPIC listed as “incision close” what does that mean to you? Are you documenting when the skin is ...

I have always listed the "incision close" time as when the dressings are on. There are too many times when dressings ...
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Looking for insight how other OR's document countable items on the whiteboard/count board. Do you use a form of ...

@Monica Sallis-Nelson
Greetings! In our hospital we do a basic one, that is as follows:
- L = Laps
- R= Rayctecs
- N= ...
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Hello all. I would like to update all of our assessments. We got a new EMR last year and they pulled our old ...

Hey @Beth Conger
AORN Syntegrity provides the documentation templates for Preprocedural screening, Preop, ...
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Hello, I was wonder if anyone is using a barcode scanner for medication in the OR? If you are what is your process for ...

We (as RNs) don’t use a scanner for meds in the OR but anesthesia does and the patients chart has an extra armband with ...
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Our organization is looking to roll out Cerner's Pathnet in a few months. What experiences can you share in regards ...
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Our ASC currently counts and signs out drugs in the morning and counts at the end of the day. We do not have a Pyxis ...

I would be interested to see others processes as well. We also do not have an automated dispense system and use paper ...
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I am wondering if anyone has experience with Allscripts / Sunshine Surgical Care electronic medical records in an ...
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I am an older OR nurse now educator I was always taught we needed to document serail numbers of any piece of ...

@antoinettegoodman At my facility, we only document SNs on tourniquet and cautery machines (e.g., Bovie, ...
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Would like to know what is correct as far as gyn procedures where surgeon cannot differentiate which ovary is ...

What comes to mind is possible. Possible left oophorectomy. possible right oophorectomy.
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I work with a facial plastics surgeon who marks preoperatively with a standard marking pen then injects local. ...

@Thomas Boone When I do a neuro or a spine case, the surgeons will typically do the same, where they mark where their ...
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Hi all! I have a super nitpicky question! Over my (relatively short) period in the OR, I've seen RN Circulators ...

@Aubrey Dyer you should count sponges in the numbers they are packaged – laps 5, raytec 10. You can review the AORN ...
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