babyIT

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1. Words You Hate

   babyIT replied to OyWithThePoodles's topic in General Nursing

   When someone refers to a woman's pregnant abdomen as her stomach.” I have heard that from both patients and clinicians.

2. You know you're tired when...

   babyIT replied to ICURN3020's topic in General Nursing

   Putting my blinker on before I turned into my driveway so that the cat sitting there would know to move.

3. Entering into the gates of Hell

   babyIT replied to MommaNurse26's topic in General Nursing

   Thank you for this beautifully written piece. As an OB nurse, having helped grieving parents struggle through the heartbreaking passage of delivering and saying goodbye to their stillborns, many of the things you write about could apply to that situa...

4. Epic (Nursing) FAILS!

   babyIT replied to VivaLasViejas's topic in Humor

   New ob nurse, back in the old days when patients did not routinely get IV starts when in labor. Old-fashioned doctor would request pitocin IV push at delivery of baby’s head and you had to make sure you had a tourniquet, good vein, etoh wipe, and pit...

5. Would keeping my own birth book be a HIPAA violation?

   babyIT replied to somedayCNM's topic in Ob/Gyn

   I worked L&D for over 20 years and I remember young nurse, just starting out, who planned on keeping a log of every patient she took care of. I remember asking her why she felt the need to do this, and her answer was along the lines of: in case ...