mamababynurse

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1. Duties of OB nurses (and others) Please feel free to add!

   mamababynurse replied to SmilingBluEyes's topic in Ob/Gyn

   DEB1 I too hope to find the right place for me. I know it is out there somewhere. Opportunities are very limited where I live. I have thought of travel nursing, but I have two young children I don't want to leave. I can go back to nights, but real...

2. Duties of OB nurses (and others) Please feel free to add!

   mamababynurse replied to SmilingBluEyes's topic in Ob/Gyn

   I have to call downstairs to L&D to ask someone to come read the strip for me. If they are busy, it can take quite a while until someone gets to it. Pretty unsafe. Besides, I don't like antepartum. If I had wanted to do that, I would have been ...

3. What's the weirdest baby name?

   mamababynurse replied to teresab_2000's topic in Ob/Gyn

   By far the WORST: Vagina - mom pronounced it Va-geena. poor baby Also knew a girl named Ophelia Pecker

4. Duties of OB nurses (and others) Please feel free to add!

   mamababynurse replied to SmilingBluEyes's topic in Ob/Gyn

   Yep, have some advice. RUN as fast as you can. You have NO idea the kind of patients you will get, if you work in a hospital. You will get, oh gee, hysterectomies, but guess what? they will be 80 years old and have all sorts of cardiac/dvt/respira...

5. Duties of OB nurses (and others) Please feel free to add!

   mamababynurse replied to SmilingBluEyes's topic in Ob/Gyn

   feel like i have to add my two cents. i am a mom/baby/gyn nurse. i do everything BUt labor and delivery. just want to tell you: in my facility (an HCA facility) I am expected to do EVERYTHING but deliver the baby. I am supposed to be a mom/baby/po...