SuperFlyRN

SuperFlyRN

ER, Tele, L&D. ICU

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About SuperFlyRN

SuperFlyRN has 9 years experience and specializes in ER, Tele, L&D. ICU.


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  1. Good Book Idea for Retiring RN

    Those are great ideas! Thanks so much for the input :wink2:
  2. Good Book Idea for Retiring RN

    I work with an OB/NICU nurse who is retiring this year after 38 years in our hospital and wanted something special to get her that she will love. She enjoys reading and gardening but I was wondering if anyone has any suggestions for a good book idea?...
  3. Interesting places where women have given birth

    My dad was born during WWII and my grandma delivered him in a bomb shelter in North London. He was her first and she was terrified and did not know what was going on..my grampa had just moved down the shelter to check on someone and he came back and ...
  4. LPNs in L&D

    Our hospital recently went acute care only, meaning, no RPN's (same as LPN here in Canada). I say go straight for RN if you can. More possibilities. Ever since we went to a Birthing Center type facility where the staff is all cross-training, our ...
  5. Do you have a nursery at your facility?

    We are a rooming-in facility-completely. If mom is critical, babe goes to NICU (unfortunately, but not with the sick babies). In the rare instance that we take a baby to be watched at the desk, they are bottle-feeders. It is detrimental to mom in the...
  6. Maternal death

    Our unit started Emergency Drills about one year ago and they are fabulous! They are spontaneous and very realistic and, IMO, a very effective teaching and training tool. Our program director started the drills after a very unfortuante DIC a couple...
  7. Pts abusing "cultural/religious" practices to manipulate RNs

    I totally agree. Part of my job is to help teach the new parents. In our facility we do not even HAVE a nursery. Every baby rooms-in and total care is taken by the new parents. When they are given their pre-natal tours they are explained that it is e...
  8. Does your work call you at 0530?

    Yup. We are in a union and they are required to call everyone. (otherwise it can be grieved). I work permanent nights and it irritates me to get called on my day off-especially at that unGodly hour!
  9. Back-handed compliments

    I find that happens in every workplace as well, but I am especially noticing it recently. I work with a total lazy-do-the-bare-minimum nurse who does just enough to get by. I work in a Birthing Center and it is an always changing environment and this...
  10. day shift nurses vs. night shift nurses

    I've worked rotating for the first three years (two weeks days/two weeks nights) than we did a two and two for a while (two days than two nights than five off). Now I am strictly 12 hour nights and it is mainly because of childcare. My dh works long ...
  11. Do Rns Clean The Urine And Bowels

    I want NO ONE "managing" me when they have not even experienced bedside nursing themselves because it is too "icky" or whatnot. Try pharmacy. I was a Pharmacist for years before I returned to be an RN-big difference in pay (and cleanliness) but I ...
  12. Doula services for Fetal Demise, Miscarriage, Stillbirth

    While I have nothing constructive to add except I think that it is a wonderful idea. Unfortunately I cannot think how to execute this but, wow, I know in our hospital this would be greatly appreciated. Nothing could be worse than on a horribly busy s...
  13. I didn't know this actually happened

    Just last night I had a 23-year-old frequent flyer (she was discharged 2 days ago with her 4th child) call 911 to say "my baby's not eating"-he wasn't, because she ran out of the "free formula" that we gave her. So she came in via ambulance to get mo...
  14. What do patients say that irks you?

    Uggggh! That makes me soooo glad that we don't have a nursery anymore although we somehow still get coerced into "watching" ppls babys at the desk-so much for rooming in. I love these ppl that try to force THEIR schedule on their newborn-I sometimes ...
  15. In our hospital it is L&D is ALWAYS 1:1, even if that patient is long, thick and closed and intact and basically sleeping. PP our guidelines are four couplets per RN but, if necessary, we CAN go to five couplets per RN. My last shift I worked...