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  1. Travelers: picky scheduling

    Thanks for the replies so far. To give a bit more background, we are a 13 bed LDRP unit with 4 teams of 4 full-time staff working 12 hour shifts, 36 hours one week, 48 the next. All of our other travelers have worked as a team member on a specific t...
  2. Travelers: picky scheduling

    Greetings, All I'm currently working with a traveler who stipulated in contract that she will not work Fridays. This makes our Fridays awful as she is a specialized nurse and there is no replacement for her from within the facility. She's talking a...
  3. Should I keep this stethoscope??

    Go with the inexpensive and adequate until you know where you'll be and what kind of sound you'll need. We nurses view our stethescopes the way 17 year olds view their cars: status symbols. Forget the status symbol thing and go with what's practic...
  4. Circumcision Debate

    Okay, I gotta jump in here for the opposite side. My husband and I are reading thru the responses so far... yes, he was mutilated as an infant and, folks, if he was any more sensitive, he'd be riding my leg all day. (Its okay for me to say that, he...
  5. venting: fetal demise

    Warning: I'm venting about a fetal demise, my first, of a full-term, beautiful baby girl. Here goes the story... Had a pt admitted to the hospital at 35+ weeks gestation for diabetic teaching and management of gestational diabetes, usual workup: N...
  6. any advice?

    I work in a fairly small hospital in a fairly rural area. We have about 125 beds total, 13 LDRP beds. I got my foot in the door by floating to OB and doing mother/baby. Since mother/baby would often leave me with time on my hands, I would help out...
  7. Orientation time in Labor and Delivery

    I got 6 months on a 13 bed LDRP unit. I had already been doing mother/baby because of floating over from med/surg for about 3 months before formally transferring so my entire 6 months of orientation has been L&D. We work on 4 person teams and w...
  8. Shortcuts

    Planning ahead is, of course, great. Prioritizing is a must... however, what makes floor nursing (med-surg in particular) so challenging is that for which you can never plan. Stay loose and flexible: don't be rigid in your plan for the day. Here'...