smbmlt

smbmlt has 3 years experience and specializes in L&D.

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1. Process of signing up for call

   smbmlt replied to Barkow's topic in Ob/Gyn

   I have been completing our regular schedule and on-call schedule for our staff members. We do 12 hour call shifts/one for night mon-thurs(you can always pull from PP unit during day shift)/ two for the weekend day-night. I start alpabetical and go do...

2. How Do I Get My Foot In The Women's Services Door?????

   smbmlt replied to godbless-yute's topic in Ob/Gyn

   I think working in Med-surg is soooo beneficial. I would work so hard, 7-8 patients, giving tons of meds. It helped me in L&D, I was more comfortable, I knew what hard work was and didn't take it for granted like some. You do forget it, if you do...

3. amniotic fluid embolism

   smbmlt replied to Almabella's topic in Ob/Gyn

   I was a new nurse at the time on L&D and it was my friend who had a pt with AFE, the baby was delivered 3 minutes after the CLE and was not injured during the incident. The mother did survive only to have no nero intact. The family and staff felt...

4. floating to other departments

   smbmlt replied to smbmlt's topic in Ob/Gyn

   so, if you were to be placed on L&D and sometimes we are so busy that no one is able to help, how could you read a strip?place a FSE? circulate during c/s?put mom's on our monitor with the TOCO/US?complete pt care during a crash?

5. What do you do?

   smbmlt replied to indiawhitaker's topic in Ob/Gyn

   We had the option to pick any dept. for our preceptorship, and we were to include the 40 hours mandatory in med-surg. Mine was, med-surg as my primary and then I split my other with L&D and Nursery. This way it gives you more options to think abo...

6. LPN's working L&D or postpartum

   smbmlt replied to 2bnurselove08's topic in Ob/Gyn

   I work in TN, and we have LPN's on L&D, they scrub,do babies(except the assessment), stock, start IV's, and put our mothers on the monitor. They are also used in postpartum, they get all vag. deliveries and 2nd day post c/s moms. We have couplet ...

7. floating to other departments

   smbmlt replied to smbmlt's topic in Ob/Gyn

   I have never had anyone from another department help us when we get SROM's and deliveries out the yang...no other employees are trained to take care of preg. moms. except us. The hospital cant stand that sometimes we are looking at the walls with not...

8. floating to other departments

   smbmlt posted a topic in Ob/Gyn

   Ive been an L&D nurse for 3 years now, we have been told to float to other departments, (ICU,ER,PEDS,MED-Surg) when we are slow. Our minimal limit is 4 RN's. We were asked recently to work in the ICU and take patients. We didn't refuse, but we in...