I would never ever cross a picket line. And especially for $46 per hour that would be a huge pay cut for me. Thanks to my union here in California I make a fair wage.
You've probably allready done your presentation but I'll chime in anyway. I live and work in California and am a member of a union, The California Nurses Association. I have been a nurse and a member for over 30 years. I think it is definately import...
L&D and ED attract similar personalities, type A, that like the drama. I think it might be easier to go from the ED with the skill set learned there, to OB, than the other way around. If you knew for sure that you wanted to only work L&D the...
Our conscious sedation protocol does not call for EKG monitoring. We do q 5 min vs, bp,pulse and O2 sat. Usually it is just fentanyl which we also give to our labor patients. Primarily it is for D&Cs that would have been done in the office except...
Conscious sedation, usually fentanyl and maybe versed. I think all of us would prefer they be done in the OR also. It requires one of the triage nurses be one to one with that pt and is quite often is not as straight forward as it is billed by the O...
I work in a level III hospital, about 6,000 births a year. We have a separate OB triage unit 2 floors away from L&D. We are trying to develop a protocol for doing D&C s in the triage unit. Does anyone do this? If so, up until how many weeks? ...
My employer, too, offers a financial incentive of $100 per month. I think they do this if they are going for magnet status, which means they are giving a ton of money to ANA
IV? that must be a typo We do have a protocol for po Vitamin K. Double the IM dose orally but it does require 2 follow up doses and is somewhat hard to find outside the hospital setting apparently. Compounding pharmacies can make it up for you though...
I think you did fine. I agree with the other posters, I do not necessarily turn the Pitocin off first, the goal is to get delivered, I acess the whole situation and try the interventions you did. I have been an L&D nurse for a long time, but not ...
I think you sound prepared. I took it 6 years ago and realized afterwards I had overprepared. If you have a number of years experience then you allready know this stuff. Many people I work with have taken it since then and most of them passed, some t...
I think this is an impossible assignment. In California it is definately out of ratios! What position is the ruptured 28 weeker? If baby is any position but vertex, in my facility, she requires continuous fetal monitoring. As does the preeclamptic, a...