dwetherelt

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1. holding legs during pushing

   dwetherelt replied to mamawof2's topic in Ob/Gyn

   As a manager, I have written policy in two hospitals forbidding nurses to hold legs, just due to nurse injury -- I know several nurses who have had either shoulder or back surgery from this practice. Families can hold legs, or the leg rests (don't u...

2. What's the weirdest baby name?

   dwetherelt replied to teresab_2000's topic in Ob/Gyn

   One mom named her little girl Meconium. An RN said "you can't name her that, it's baby poop!" and mom said, "but on one knows that". Kept the name . . .

3. How many L&D nurses rupture membranes or insert IUPC's?

   dwetherelt replied to Salgal08's topic in Ob/Gyn

   I managed a unit several years ago; when the BON said it did fall within the scope of RNs to perform amniotomy we initiated an education program and then let the RNs perform the amniotomy (we also inserted IUPCs and applied FSE's). BUT, I told the s...

4. What's the weirdest baby name?

   dwetherelt replied to teresab_2000's topic in Ob/Gyn

   Had a mom name her little girl "Meconium" ~ even after it was explained what meconium was!!

5. How far up the ladder can you go with an Associate Nursing degree?

   dwetherelt replied to Student_Nurse_Cossman's topic in Career Support

   . . . depending on your locale, quite a ways! I've been an RN for 28 years and for various reasons (none of them being lack of desire) I still have "only" my ADN. What I DO have is a wealth of experience and a good measure of common sense . . . I'v...

6. Elective Cesareans/On Demand

   dwetherelt replied to HeartsOpenWide's topic in Ob/Gyn

   The national c/s rate is close to 30%, but not 50% (yet). Section on demand is being touted as a woman's "right" ~ the last couple conferences I've been to have essentially said if a prime (or anyone else) requests a section and the OB refuses, and ...

7. What do you think of throwing away "soiled" items in regular trash?

   dwetherelt replied to NewbieNurse2005's topic in General Nursing

   While hospitals are looking to decrease the poundage of disposal of red-bags (because it is VERY expensive) no one is looking to increase infection. Check with your Infection Control people, one IC defined contamination is when something has more th...

8. LDRP ~ outgoing or continuing trend?

   dwetherelt replied to dwetherelt's topic in Ob/Gyn

   I'd like to thank everyone who has taken the time to write in response to my question. The upshot is that there are no easily available statistics available (darn!). We are doing community focus groups to see what (if anything) the moms have to say...

9. LDRP ~ outgoing or continuing trend?

   dwetherelt posted a topic in Ob/Gyn

   we are in the planning phase for a new ob unit; the staff really wants to go to ldrps, but we are meeting wide-spread resistance among the ob providers. the perinatologist has stated "ldrps were "in" in the 80's but are on the way out, everyone is r...