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Laverne Andrea French
Hi, The VASER is fairly new for use in the pediatric population. Anyone have helpful hints on minimum ...
ATHENA BLUE
Wonderful news! We can now offer the BSW Expert Witness Course for FREE!! Please take a look at the poster attached ...
ATHENA BLUE Category Documentation Oct '23
Jennifer Gartenberg
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 ...

Sylvia Gonzalez
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 ...
Sylvia Gonzalez Category Documentation Sep '23
Elizabeth Stroud
For the event time in EPIC listed as “incision close” what does that mean to you? Are you documenting when the skin is ...
Elizabeth Stroud Category Documentation Sep '23
I have always listed the "incision close" time as when the dressings are on. There are too many times when dressings ...
Monica Sallis-Nelson
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= ...
    Beth Conger
    Hello all. I would like to update all of our assessments. We got a new EMR last year and they pulled our old ...
    Beth Conger Category Documentation Jul '23

    Hey @Beth Conger

    AORN Syntegrity provides the documentation templates for Preprocedural screening, Preop, ...

    Shannon Glasgow
    Hello, I was wonder if anyone is using a barcode scanner for medication in the OR? If you are what is your process for ...
    Shannon Glasgow Category Documentation Jul '23
    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 ...
    Sharon Hershey
    Our organization is looking to roll out Cerner's Pathnet in a few months. What experiences can you share in regards ...
    Sharon Hershey Category Documentation Jun '23
    Melanie  Gellerman
    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 ...
    Melanie Gellerman Category Documentation Jun '23
    I would be interested to see others processes as well. We also do not have an automated dispense system and use paper ...
    Carrie Christianson
    I am wondering if anyone has experience with Allscripts / Sunshine Surgical Care electronic medical records in an ...
    Antoinette Goodman
    I am an older OR nurse now educator I was always taught we needed to document serail numbers of any piece of ...
    Care Brown Care Brown Jun '23
    @antoinettegoodman At my facility, we only document SNs on tourniquet and cautery machines (e.g., Bovie, ...
    Carolyn Wafle-Guenther
    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.

    Thomas Boone
    I work with a facial plastics surgeon who marks preoperatively with a standard marking pen then injects local. ...
    Thomas Boone Category Documentation May '23

    @Thomas Boone When I do a neuro or a spine case, the surgeons will typically do the same, where they mark where their ...

    Aubrey Dyer
    Hi all! I have a super nitpicky question! Over my (relatively short) period in the OR, I've seen RN Circulators ...
    Aubrey Dyer Category Documentation May '23

    @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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