StrongRN

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1. Confront a fellow nurse or not?

   StrongRN replied to AmberL&D/RN's topic in Ob/Gyn

   AmberL&D/RN Sounds like some very good and sound advice on line. By all means "call her bluff" nurses like this we can all do without. Let her know that while you do what you can to ease the shift transition you are not there to do her job and...

2. Opinion re: getting a new patient at the end of your shift

   StrongRN replied to ShimmaShimma0304's topic in Safety

   Perhaps your director should initiate a "cooling Period" like we have at my hospital. It goes like this - we do not take admissions 15 minutes before the end of a shift and not for the 15 minutes after change of shift. We have people trying to go...

3. Nurse to Couplet Ratio?????

   StrongRN replied to aimeeRN's topic in Ob/Gyn

   Our Mother/Baby ratio is 4-5/1 optimally speaking they prefer 4:1 but with staffing the way it is now a days 5 or 6 would not be unheard of but would also be rare.

4. Elective C-sections

   StrongRN replied to Altra's topic in Ob/Gyn

   Let's get real ladies. Birthing babies is birthing babies regardless of what the outcome is. I personally found labor (no epidural during labor) to be less discomfort than my menstrual cycle. But after 20 hours of labor 100% effaced and 8cm dilated...

5. Need advice/help w/bad situation!

   StrongRN replied to gypsyatheart's topic in Ob/Gyn

   Sweetheart what you need to do is run not walk straight to the closest state board of nursing, joint commission, and B L O W THE W H I S T L E on these heartless @#!~%$^*. And let them all know that you are quite willing to go to the nearest Malpra...

6. Where are all you SC nurses?

   StrongRN replied to RedVaz's topic in South Carolina

   I am an Assistant Nurse Manager for an ob/gyn unit at a local hospital in Columbia. Anyone interested in a job? I would like to know how may facilities have LDR to Postpartum units. And how many are Postpartum and GYN combo units., with 29 beds? Wh...

7. on call policies

   StrongRN replied to UKRN88's topic in Safety

   UKRN88 On my unit we take call in 4 hour increments @ $1/hour and should we be called in we are paid time and a half plus the $1/hour . And we are guaranteed 2hour of call back back even if we stay only 30 minutes. We participate in this in order t...

8. why no responses to my post

   StrongRN replied to cathytoday's topic in Career Support

9. transferring vaginal deliveries to postpartum/gyn unit

   StrongRN posted a topic in Ob/Gyn

   :angryfire I have a gyn/post partum unit with 29 beds. Our hospital has just recently gone to the LDR approach for new mothers. My question to you is: At what stage of her recovery does this new mother get transferred to your unit? Do you have ...