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1. OB nurses, what do you do in adoption situations?

   reprise replied to estrogen's topic in Ob/Gyn

   I've met more than my fair share of people wanting to adopt who also fail to see a baby as a separate and distinct human being with needs and rights and who still perceive the adoption system as existing in order to provide them with a child rather t...

2. OB nurses, what do you do in adoption situations?

   reprise replied to estrogen's topic in Ob/Gyn

   Our adoption system here is totally different to that in the US and was changed some years ago to reflect the fact that many of the situations under which young women previously relinquished their children for adoption were temporary. Now, when the ...

3. Grandbaby arrived safely, BUT...

   reprise posted a topic in Ob/Gyn

   it was little thanks to the attending midwives. I am angry beyond measure at the way my daughter was treated by her attending midwives last night and I know that I *should* be grateful that grandbaby was safely delivered and all of that. I'm way too...

4. Where can I find out what % of women get labor pain medication?

   reprise replied to kyleelynn76's topic in Ob/Gyn

   The overall statistics can be found on google and are quite frightening. HOWEVER, when you disaggregate the figures and take into account hospital policies, the numbers show a different story. What do you regard as "pain medication". A single shot ...

5. Offended by Prayer

   reprise replied to CCU NRS's topic in General Nursing

   I am utterly and totally offended by medical staff who are at least supposed to have read the cover sheet on my file which quite clearly states my lack of religious belief injecting their personal metaphysical belief systems into my personal tragedie...

6. Futile Care. Dead is dead.

   reprise replied to Trauma-tizedRN's topic in General Nursing

   I truly believe that the reason some people call the emergency services is because they don't want their family member dying in front of their eyes or that they don't want to be alone in the presence of death (and let's be honest, death is not always...

7. Futile Care. Dead is dead.

   reprise replied to Trauma-tizedRN's topic in General Nursing

   One thing which was quite common 10 years ago was selective adherence to advance directives - so while only palliative care would be given for the underlying, terminal condition, doctors would actively treat any opportunistic infections or other comp...

8. Futile Care. Dead is dead.

   reprise replied to Trauma-tizedRN's topic in General Nursing

   During the time I worked in the HIV/AIDS field, I found it quite puzzling that often it was the families of those who'd been suffering a terminal illness for a considerable period of time who were most reluctant to discontinue futile treatment. Intu...

9. Just been fired :(

   reprise replied to sax_journey's topic in General Nursing

   It's unclear from your post whether you were actually fired or whether you were employed subject to satisfactory performance during a probationary period and your employer elected not to continue your employment after that time. You also don't mentio...

10. shocked at what I saw!

    reprise replied to Purple Princess's topic in Geriatric

    I don't think that Larry meant staff couldn't use that number to lodge complaints. I read his post as saying even if you don't know the "right" number to complain to at least you can use that one as a starting point and they should be able to refer ...

11. shocked at what I saw!

    reprise replied to Purple Princess's topic in Geriatric

    First of all I need to declare an interest here. I am not a nurse. I am a licensed health educator and a state approved community visitor (which basically means I have a badge which allows me to walk into certain facilities - public or private - wh...

12. Young, Unfit, Drug Addicted, etc. Mothers

    reprise replied to alphafe's topic in Ob/Gyn

    As the mother of one of those young mums to be who everybody and their dog (including myself) thought should have terminated the pregnancy, I'd just like to tell those of you who are able to suspend your judgements long enough to offer help what a di...

13. Birth plan help (again) - assisted delivery

    reprise replied to reprise's topic in Ob/Gyn

    Like most women in Australia, my daughter doesn't have an ob. Unless something goes wrong there won't be a doctor involved in her delivery at all, and if something does go wrong it will be handled by one of the obs who is on duty at the time (high r...

14. Birth plan help (again) - assisted delivery

    reprise replied to reprise's topic in Ob/Gyn

    I do know that none of the hospital doctors do rotational forceps (the midwives seem to regard the couple of private obs who still have the knack of doing these as fossils). I also know that the policy is to do a routine episiotomy for all forceps d...

15. How many 37, 38-weekers wind up in NICU?

    reprise replied to mermom's topic in NICU

    Can I just ask how many of the 37-38 weekers who end up in NICU were anticipated to need assistance prior to delivery? Many public hospitals here will not schedule inductions for prior to 38 weeks in the absence of a compelling medical reason (prec...