MKS8806

MKS8806

Labor and Delivery, Newborn, Antepartum

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About MKS8806

MKS8806 has 7 years experience and specializes in Labor and Delivery, Newborn, Antepartum.


I am a night shift, labor and delivery, high risk antepartum, and triage nurse for a facility with a Level 3b NICU. I certified in Inpatient Obstetrics, as well as, Electronic Fetal Monitoring. I am an instructor for the AAP's Neonatal Resuscitation Program and AWHONN's Intermediate Fetal Monitoring Program.

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  1. I am in search of any resources out there for nurses to help with the expenses of continuing education opportunities, such as conference expenses. I have already reached out to the conference sponsors and my employer and have not had much luck. I d...
  2. Postpartum Hemorrhage drills

    Hi Everyone! I have recently taken over the education role for unit (L&D) and our sister units (mother baby and women's surgical). I work for a hospital that is owned by a corporation and we have mandatory education and drills that we are suppo...
  3. B/P and Seizures

    Typically, when you are starting Mag for seizure prophylaxis, you need to be delivered. At our facility, we control BPs, with PO antihypertensive meds and IVP meds as needed. Once the pressure can no longer be controlled with that or their labs sho...
  4. difference high risk OB VS L&D?

    I work at a facility where we rotate through Labor, Triage, and Antepartum. We are a high risk Antepartum unit that gets transfers from all over the area. A typical day on that unit would consist of 3-5 patients, some continuous fetal monitoring, o...
  5. AWHONN recommendations

    Hey everyone, I was wondering if someone could help me get my hands on a copy of awhonn's recommendations for documenting FHTs during the different stages of labor. I thought I had a copy of it somewhere, but can't seem to locate it, and I'm having...
  6. How often do you document fht's?

    Does anyone have a link to AWHONN's recommendations?? I've been googling, but can't find what I'm looking for....
  7. No physician in-house?

    I worked at a facility similar to this for about 2 years. We didn't have doctors, anesthesia, or a surgery crew in house at night. Yes, it was scary at times, and there were outcomes that, unfortunately, may or may not have been different, had we h...
  8. Chorio s/s

    Yes! When I saw the WBC count, my initial reaction was that women in labor generally do have slightly elevated WBC counts. But later (after delivery), I wondered if that should've been a flag. Mom did receive an epidural and her vitals were WNL o...
  9. Neonatal IV question

    We have very nice cushiony arm boards as well. I have put some netting over the site before if I have a grabby baby and I'm worried their going to pull on the IV tubing or if they're out with mom and I'm wanting to keep the site from being pulled or...
  10. Premie/Infant ID Bracelets

    We attach 2 bracelets to our babies - one on the ankle and the other on the opposite wrist. Our bracelets have the sleeve like NicuGals. We have a printer that prints a sticker that is the right size to slip in there that has a barcode, the baby's n...
  11. Chorio s/s

    Thank you all for your responses. They did send the placenta and cultured it as well. We also sent the deleed secretions to the lab for culture - the Ped told me that, if that was infected, that could've caused the pneumo as well. Thanks again for ...
  12. Chorio s/s

    I had a patient recently that spiked a temperature during pushing and the baby was delivered in....not so good shape. The delivering doctor marked on her paperwork that the patient had developed chorio during labor, and I, honestly, didn't see it co...
  13. Delivery Pitocin

    We bolus the 30ml in 500cc.
  14. NICU visitation policy

    Level 2 nursery: We allow parents and grandparents and siblings of any age (as long as they are healthy and not sick). All visitors must be present with a parent. We are a little more lenient when it is just one baby in our SCN, but if we have more...
  15. NRP

    READ THE BOOK!! To know how to react is to understand the algorithm and be able to react based on what's going on. It really isn't too bad. But you do need to study.