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Operating Room Nurse Interview Questions

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Question 1. A Practice Nurse Regularly Performs Certain Routine Procedures. What Are They? Answer : A practice nurse will treat and dress wounds as well as take blood samples, urine…

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What is Sterilization? – Types and Methods in Microbiology

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Sterilization is a process of destruction of all forms of living microorganisms from a substance. Articles having direct application on humans and animals are subjected to sterilization. These materials include…

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Abdominal Incisions in Gynaecologic Oncological Surgery

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Overview The success of a gynaecologic procedure performed through an abdominal incision depends on careful selection of the incision site and proper closure of the wound. The surgeon needs to…

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Operating Room Fire safety

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Although a fire occurring in an operating room is a relatively rare occurrence, the consequences can be devastating. This training module will provide information that can be taken to prevent…

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In A First, Doctors Perform Successful Child Valve Replacement Surgery

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A spokesman of the super specialty tertiary care hospital said the cardiovascular and thoracic surgery (CVTS) department of the medical institute has conducted the successful heart valve replacement of a…

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Preventing Retained Surgical Items is a Team Effort

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“With unintentionally retained objects, the problem is the enormous amount of harm that can result,” such as perforation, infection, pain, damage to other body parts, and death,” says Gail Horvath,…

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A woman took a stranger off life support after hospital allegedly mixed up two men, lawsuit says

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A woman who was told her brother wouldn’t “make it” after a drug overdose ordered a stranger be taken off life support in a mix-up at a Bronx hospital, a…

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Mumbai: Doctors transferred, terminated after 3 lose eye in cataract surgery

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American Academy of Ophthalmologist: Image Credit The medical superintendent of civic-run Balasaheb Thackeray Trauma Care Hospital was demoted and transferred on Monday, while the services of an honorary eye surgeon…

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Slain Wisconsin nurse found frozen, bleeding under her car in Hospital car park

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Carlie Beaudin MEDICAL COLLEGE OF WISCONSIN MILWAUKEE – Carlie Beaudin’s dog, Baloo, was the first to alert her husband, Nick, that something was wrong. It was about 4 a.m. and…

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HOT topics in the OR

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In the OR, the stakes are high for perioperative nurses, physicians and others who work as a cohesive team for optimal results. The future holds much of the same —…

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Thyroidectomy

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Overview Image Credit: crossfithartford Thyroidectomy is the removal of all or part of your thyroid gland. Your thyroid is a butterfly-shaped gland located at the base of your neck. It…

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Surgeon performs region’s first robotic knee replacement surgery

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Image Credit: Morristown-Hamblen Healthcare system NAGPUR: Dr Mukesh Laddha, an orthopaedic surgeon at the Rathi Nursing Home (RNH) for the first time in city and region has conducted robotic knee…

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Surgical Skin Prep – Perioperative Patient Care Fundamentals

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Posted by: Kimberly Prinsen RN, MSN When I think of the role of a circulating nurse in the Operating Room I’m struck by both the complexity of the work and…

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Everything You Need to Know About Surgical Sutures

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Overview Sutures are used by your doctor to close wounds to your skin or other tissues. When your doctor sutures a wound, they’ll use a needle attached to a length…

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Ujjain civil surgeon sacked after kissing video with nurse inside operation theatre goes viral

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The video, which shows the civil surgeon kissing a woman, first surfaced on a WhatsApp group of the nursing staff of the Ujjain district hospital. HIGHLIGHTS He has been removed…

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Indian cardiologist performs world’s first telerobotic surgery from a distance of 32 km

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Telerobotic surgery will be commercialized for a timely and specialized treatment of cardiovascular patients with geographical barriers. India became the world’s first to successfully perform a telerobotic coronary intervention on…

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Nurse ‘decapitates a baby while pulling too hard during a difficult birth’ at a hospital in India

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A male nurse pulled so hard that the foetus is said to have broken in two pieces The mother is now fighting for her life at a different hospital in…

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SURGICAL COUNTS

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Overview/Procedure Description It is essential for the safety of the patient that a national standard for counting procedures be employed. Accountable items are instruments and other items, which by their…

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Mayo, Cleveland Clinic Again Lead US News Top Hospitals List

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For the third consecutive year, the Mayo Clinic in Rochester, Minnesota, claimed the number one spot in the annual honor roll of best hospitals published by US News and World…

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Diseases in the drapes: Hospital privacy curtains are a breeding ground for MRSA and other dangerous bugs because they are ‘always touched but rarely changed’ 

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Bacterial swabs of privacy curtains at the Health Sciences Centre in Winnipeg found they all harboured the hospital superbug MRSA at some point over a 21-day period (stock image) Canadian…

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Hybrid, Integrated, Digital O.R.: The Differences (and Similarities)

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Image credit: MedGadget By Brainlab A: “A hybrid operating room always has to have in-room imaging.” E: “But that could also be a digital O.R.” A: “Sure, but a digital…

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What I Do as an Anaesthesiologist

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Image Credit: facmediciney Life Hacker Career Spotlight It’s easy to take for granted the precision with which modern medicine can manage and alleviate pain, whether you’re put under for surgery…

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A New Jersey Surgery Center May Have Exposed Thousands to Infections Due to Dirty Instruments 

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Screenshot: Google/HealthPlus Surgery Center Over 3,000 patients at a New Jersey surgical center may have been exposed to bloodborne pathogens after investigators found the facility wasn’t properly following sterilization guidelines…

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Theatre Nurses: 3 Reasons Why Nurses Move Towards the Operating Room

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Image Credit: nursejobsIreland We can all agree that nurses work hard enough as it is! So why do some nurses take on extra work to make the shift towards becoming…

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Virtual reality and the changing face of surgery

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Diane Jooris is pioneering research into VR for patients (Oncomfort) Two medical specialists talk about how they are using VR for both doctors and patients in surgery. Virtual reality was…

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Two-year-old boy ‘castrated’ after doctors botched operation

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Shutterstock A 2-year-old boy who was supposed to undergo a “minimal operation” was “castrated” when doctors accidentally operated on the wrong testicle, his family says. The boy was treated for…

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Sales Reps May Be Wearing Out Their Welcome In The Operating Room

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(John Fedele/Getty Images) In the operating room, surgical masks and matching scrubs can make it hard to tell who’s who — at least for outsiders. Patients getting wheeled in might…

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Surgeons reconstruct girl’s skull after her head swells to dangerous size

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Surgeons at a Canadian hospital have used cutting edge technology to completely reconstruct a two-year-old’s skull after her head swelled to the size of a basketball due to an abnormal…

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Legal war engulfs 3M Bair Hugger device

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Smoke rose in curls of green laser light, quickly filling the mock operating room and fogging the air around a mannequin patient. Dr. Scott Augustine, a controversial medical entrepreneur and…

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The Rise of the Barn Operating Theatre

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UK hospitals adopting barn theatre approach to improve outcomes Operating theatre design has remained largely unchanged for decades, but more recently a new architectural approach is beginning to take hold.…