bvb

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1. L&D staffing

   bvb posted a topic in Ob/Gyn

   I have been asked to collect data about how other hospitals staff their L&D units. We have been having ongoing problems with this at our hospital. We had some docs leave and now our deliveries are down and they want to cut staff to 3/shift. Our a...

2. What's the weirdest baby name?

   bvb replied to teresab_2000's topic in Ob/Gyn

   I took care of a patient by the name of "Lufituaeb".. beautiful spelled backwards!! There is a girl at my son's school named Whiskie!

3. cross training

   bvb replied to bvb's topic in Ob/Gyn

   I believe they want to do it to downsize staffing. If L&D is busy they could pull nurses from PP then when the pts deliver they could pull the L&D nurses to PP! Our concern is, what if BOTH units are busy? We also feel we should have a minimu...

4. cross training

   bvb posted a topic in Ob/Gyn

   Does anyone do cross training between L&D and postpartum? Administration wants us to do it (again). We have tried it 2-3 times in the 17 years I have worked in L&D and it never works very well. It seems that it is fairly easy for L&D to g...