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Archive > August, 2006 Vol. VII, No. 8

Behind Closed Doors

Physician, Heal The Nurse

Paula Watkins, RN, CNOR

Paula Watkins, RN, CNOR How many ways can working in an OR send you to the doctor? It sounds like a joke, but we know better. Especially after some piece of equipment's banged into us without so much as an "excuse me." To add insult to injury, some of us face the indignity of having to go pee in a cup when we report the injury (which we all know is just the hospital's attempt to get out of paying those pesky workers' comp claims on a technicality). If any of these 10 tools are in your future, we've got an exam room, a hospital gown and a specimen cup waiting for you.

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