How Your OB Rotation Went

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  1. Overall, how was your maternity rotation?

    • 3
      I really enjoyed it.
    • 11
      It was fine but not my speciality.
    • 5
      It was uneventful/boring.
    • 4
      It was horrible!!

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Specializes in Emergency Nursing.

This summer I am going to be doing my maternity rotation and I was hoping to get the opinions of a few guys on their maternity rotation. I realize that there is a post on guys during their OB rotation already but I would like to know just the basics in the form of a poll. How was your OB/maternity rotation overall? Good? Great? Horrible? Uneventful? I would prefer if only guys answered this poll.

!Chris :specs:

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Hey Chris. My OB rotation was okay I guess. It's all how you look at it and how you can take rejection. I was rejected (because I'm a guy) so many times I lost count. However, I was mentally ready for this and that made it a little bit easier. Because I'm in National University my rotations only last two months so it went by pretty quick. How long are your rotations? Aleks.

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Specializes in Emergency Nursing.

Well I am doing my maternity and psych. rotations over the summer so they are really short in comparison to the regular fall and spring semesters. The placements are twice a week for a month.

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i'm in north new jersey.

my OB hospital rotation was at Morristown Memorial Hospital. large area hospital with many speciatly high risk pregnancies.

it was an 8 week rotation two nights a week from 5.30 to 10.30, mosltly it was quiet as new moms and dads want to sleep.

i saw 2 C sections. i was ready for it as my wife had a C-section.

my buddy saw a woman traditional delivery have an episiotomy and turned white left the delivery room and he passed out.

:chuckle

i was able to palpate a womans fundus, take vitals and do translation for a mom who's family was not there and only spoke spanish, monitor a woman who was being induced with pitocin.

watch and IV hung for a woman with mild preeclampsia

i was refused to be in the room by more husbands than wifes. which i totally respect.

the nurses were some of the most freindly i've found at all 6 of the hospitals i did rotations in...with a few exceptions.

good luck, and eat something if you've never seen a live birth, don't pass out lol.

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Specializes in Transplant.

I had a great L&D clinical. Eight rotations: 3 x Labor, 2 x transition, 2 x postpartum, 1 x NICU.

Labor: had outstanding preceptors two of the times and a short-tempered impatient one the third, so I had two great days and one bad one. Also contributing was the two good days were extremely busy and the bad one was very slow (one delivery all day). Helped moms before and during delivery, and did lots of fundus and lochia checks afterwards (we called it "fun with fundus"). Watched a C-section. Also had a mom with a burst uterine artery who had to go for general surgery for a repair.

Transition (taking care of new baby immediately after birth): outstanding, and my favorite. Did APGARs, initial assessments, eyes-n-thighs, weight/measures, first baths ... the most interaction I had with the patients. Also contributing was the best preceptor that I've had in any clinical.

Postpartum: OK, but not as exciting for me as labor or transition. Some assessments and VS, Rhogam shots, meds, more fundus checks. Pretty routine stuff aside from some bili treatments.

NICU: eh - a little boring: tube feedings, VS, weights, change diapers, wash...rinse...repeat.

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Specializes in Neonatal ICU (Cardiothoracic).
NICU: eh - a little boring: tube feedings, VS, weights, change diapers, wash...rinse...repeat.

haha.....

Apparently they didn't have you caring for the 23 weeker on a high-frequency oscillator vent, Dopamine, Dobutamine, Levophed, TPN/IL, countless meds.... with umbilical lines, chest tubes......

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Specializes in Emergency Nursing.
haha.....

Apparently they didn't have you caring for the 23 weeker on a high-frequency oscillator vent, Dopamine, Dobutamine, Levophed, TPN/IL, countless meds.... with umbilical lines, chest tubes......

I've actually been thinking about the NICU as a potential specialty so I'm really excited to get the chance to see if its a good fit for me.

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