Sterren

Sterren BSN, RN

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About Sterren

Sterren is a BSN, RN and specializes in L&D.


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  1. I've been doing inpatient nursing for 4 years but I'm seriously considering a move to home health. I love what I do but for family reasons I need something with more flexibility, and I have a friend who does home health and finds it to be amazingly f...
  2. Does working on a OB unit help you eventually obtain an L&D job?

    I hired directly into L&D, and have never worked a single day of med-surg in my entire life. L&D is it's own little world, and a lot of what you'd do in med-surg wouldn't even have any usefulness in L&D (and vice versa). I'd go for the O...
  3. What's the weirdest baby name?

    Is it time for someone to claim that they've seen twins named Orangejello and Lemonjello yet? Because if it is I totally took care of their mom last week. For real. I'm sure you will all find these names as shocking as I did, having never ever heard ...
  4. Pre-cepting

    I would try to go straight to OB if it's an option and you know that's where you want to be. The job market is pretty bad for new grads in every specialty so take what you can get, of course, but I wouldn't force yourself to do med-surge if you don't...
  5. Specifically for OB I'd keep an extra pair or socks (and shoes) just in case you get splashed. Wet shoes are not fun. I keep a spare stethoscope, snacks, tylenol, basic toiletries, about $5 in change, a book for nights where not much is going on, pe...
  6. Nurses as primary breadwinners?

    I worked up until my water broke too. By choice, twice. I could have started my maternity leave sooner but I didn't want to waste my maternity leave sitting at home being bored waiting around for my baby, I saved that time for after the baby was actu...
  7. Nurses as primary breadwinners?

    I make more money than my husband, so I guess I'm one of these young breadwinner nurses you're talking about. My husband and I don't really think of it that way, though. We both work the same number of hours, but I get paid more for my time than he d...
  8. Modified self-scheduling has to go (IMHO)

    Why don't you request the same thing every week then and trade for whatever days you don't get? Then you've got your fixed schedule. I have a coworker who has worked the same thing every week as long as I've known her, and that's how she does it. I h...
  9. Well no, but I'm straight and married and all my patients are female. Honestly I think it's very unethical and unprofessional. I don't really buy the "well what if you bumped into each other at a bar later" either. If it was a significant enough nurs...
  10. What's the weirdest baby name?

    You forgot Shithead (Sha-theed), that one gets mentioned pretty often too.
  11. Sorry the bed is uncomfortable. It's not my fault that you came to the hospital and begged to be admitted for labor when you were demonstrably not in labor but were whiny enough that the doctor admitted you anyway, and then ordered NPO and bedrest wi...
  12. I'd want to work at Seattle Grace/Mercy West Hospital. The residents there do EVERYTHING.
  13. I had a patient recently that I really connected with. After we discharged her, I wondered how she was doing and wished I'd given her my email address or something so that if she were comfortable with it, she could update me on how things were going...
  14. What's the weirdest baby name?

    My patient the other day had quadruplets and they had the best names ever! The identical boys were Lemonjello and Oranjello. The other boy she named Shithead (pronounced Sha-th-eed) and the one little girl was Female (Fuh-MAL-ee). She had an older ...