Krojas21

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1. ortho evra patch

   Krojas21 replied to lindamb's topic in Ob/Gyn

   I also used tha patch for about 2 1/2 years, all the way through nursing school and I just took it off this January because we want to try and get pregnant again :). I loved it for the most part. All was fine for the first 5 months then I'd get sic...

2. Piercing Infants Ears?

   Krojas21 replied to Krojas21's topic in Pediatric

   I only heard of the cartilage part once from a salon person. I think she meant that since babies don't have very firm cartilage in the ears for the first few months that piercing in the wrong spot would be bad if they accidently pierced too high and...

3. Piercing Infants Ears?

   Krojas21 posted a topic in Pediatric

   First off let me please state that I'm not posting this to start a debate. I was just wondering if there is any medical thoughts out there as to how early is too early to pierce an infants ears. Again please don't make this a debate. I have seen ba...

4. When do you move your pt to post-partum?

   Krojas21 replied to princess99's topic in Ob/Gyn

   Our L&D usually bring pt to the pp side around 1 hour for vaginal deliveries and two hours for c-sections. If unstable (pp hemm, on mag...) they stay until stable. They always have IV's in (unless they never had one in the first place), but hav...

5. CNA performing a newborn screen?

   Krojas21 replied to rnmi2004's topic in Ob/Gyn

   We have OB techs which can be or don't have to be cna's also. They are allowed to do pku's and other specimen collection (ie urine catch), it's in their list of allowed responsibilites, but I haven't seen any of them do one. Us RN's are pretty prot...

6. Newborn PKU: Heelstick vs Venipuncture?

   Krojas21 replied to Krojas21's topic in Ob/Gyn

   I'm sorry about your experience but I also don't believe that it was a pku since you must have food (breastmilk or formula) in them before the test is done, but maybe some other type of test (maybe a NICU nurse would know about.) I haven't seen othe...

7. Newborn PKU: Heelstick vs Venipuncture?

   Krojas21 replied to Krojas21's topic in Ob/Gyn

   For venipuncture: In my senior preceptorship we would use a regular need with hub (23-25G, I think) enter the vein in the back of the hand by bending their wrist and our own had was the tournoquet. We used glass pipettes in the hub then blotted the ...

8. Newborn PKU: Heelstick vs Venipuncture?

   Krojas21 posted a topic in Ob/Gyn

   I was just wondering how many of you are still doing heelsticks or venipuncture for newborn pkus. I hear that venipunture is the way to go now since it's less painfull and supossedley faster. I have done both and don't mind either way. At my curr...

9. How common is the Nursery Nurse (vs. mother/baby) care?

   Krojas21 replied to BookishRN's topic in Ob/Gyn

   I work in a highrisk family birth center (FBC) that is seperate from L&D and our hospital has a NICU. We have variety of different RN jobs (ie Nursery lead, Transistion, Mother/baby nurses, and antepartum nurses). I'm new so I only do mother/ba...

10. Generation gap and attitudes towards work - hurting patients?

    Krojas21 replied to pebbles's topic in Safety

    I would also like to put my two cents in, I am also a younger new grad (25) and I haven't seen this at all, however (and I apologize if this has been already said, I haven't read all the posts) We as nurses, nursing students or whatever have the resp...

11. How long did you wait to test?

    Krojas21 replied to ftr_bb_catchr's topic in NCLEX

    You can take the NCLEX the day after graduation if the testing center is open. For example I graduated on a friday and one person in my class did take it on saturday (the day of our pinning, but I think the center was closed on Sunday), but I waited...

12. IUD's pro's & Con's

    Krojas21 replied to pazza66's topic in Ob/Gyn

    Are you breast feeding? That may be why your MD is pushing something that can be progesterone only. So it won't diminish your milk supply, if not then who knows why she's pushing that choice other than becuase she's promoting it. By the way: I use...

13. afraid I hurt Pt w/injection

    Krojas21 replied to chilloutrelax's topic in Ob/Gyn

    Possibly after you aspirated, you may have then pushed the needle into deep and did hit a vessel, while injecting , thus seeing a flush of blood. Did you stabalize the syringe well while injecting? I don't know what the consequenses of the Rhogam g...

14. Maternity Nurse/Mid-Wife

    Krojas21 replied to bambi147's topic in Ob/Gyn

    Thank you alot for clearing things up for me. I am most likely going to attend a community college for 2 years and then a University for 2 years. So do you think a BSN would be better? Also when I've been looking at the college courses most colleges ...

15. Direct entry (lay) midwife?

    Krojas21 replied to Krojas21's topic in CNM

    Thanks everyone! You have all help me those are some great sites. Just to let you all know I was interested because in my Nursing theory class we had an assingment that talked about a direct entry (lay) midwife and I had never heard the term used b...