JewelStream

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1. Studies Support Home Birthing Option!

   JewelStream replied to jamistlc's topic in Ob/Gyn

   shay, like how you named it a *home birth baby*.....things happen to babies no matter where they are born, but more unneccessary interventions are made in hospital than anywhere else. If docs and nurses could learn to keep their hands out of a woma...

2. Studies Support Home Birthing Option!

   JewelStream replied to jamistlc's topic in Ob/Gyn

   I have had 2 hb's now and they were so wonderful that I'd never step foot in the hospital. If pg and birth were treated more as a normal part of the life cycle instead of an illness, birthing would be much less traumatic in the hospital. I know tha...

3. getting started in hospice

   JewelStream replied to dee72054's topic in Hospice

   Dee, I was fresh out of nursing school and looking for a Hospice job back in 1994. I happened to find an ad in the paper where it was a HHA/HM position but it was through a contract with the local Hospice. I applied cuz I just wanted Hospice so bad...

4. Survey: How old were you when you entered the nursing profession?

   JewelStream replied to Brian's topic in General Nursing

   I was 21 when I graduated from LPN school in 1994. I lost my beloved Grandpa just 2 mo. later, he wanted to live long enough to see me graduate, even though he was bedridden and couldn't attend. I got my first nursing job just 2 weeks after my gra...