DeborahK

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1. Can you recommend an OB textbook?

   DeborahK posted a topic in Educators

   Do you use a Maternal Newborn textbook that you love? I teach Maternal Newborn Nursing at a state college BSN program and we're considering changing textbooks because our current text is too detailed for undergraduates (one of the instructors used t...

2. Are We Addressing Fundamental Student Needs In The Classroom?

   DeborahK replied to dmapp63's topic in Educators

   What an inspiring article, and thoughtful approach to teaching. I will definitely adapt some of your techniques.

3. The most inspiring thing for the last clinical day

   DeborahK posted a topic in General Students

   I'm a clinical instructor and I want to hear from nursing students--what is the most inspiring thing we could do for the nursing students on their last clinical day of a rotation? I had a great group of students and I want to send them out flying hi...

4. Nursing Student aspiring to be a CNM

   DeborahK replied to Vannablack's topic in Ob/Gyn

   If you are going to nursing school specifically to become a CNM (as I did), you don't necessarily have to get a job on labor & delivery when you graduate since some midwifery schools will take you straight out of nursing school. If you are willin...

5. Needing encouragement, trying to get past being fired a few years ago.....

   DeborahK replied to nursingosaurus's topic in General Nursing

   Are you doomed in what way? Doomed not to be offered another position? (You already were, right?) Doomed not to get past it emotionally? (That's in your hands--learn from it what you DON'T want in a nursing position.) If it comes up in an interv...

6. Needing encouragement, trying to get past being fired a few years ago.....

   DeborahK replied to nursingosaurus's topic in General Nursing

   I am wondering if part of your angst in thinking about your next job (and the one you were fired from) is the idea that in-patient nursing is somehow more real nursing than a day surgery job or other out-patient roles. The higher the stress and acui...

7. Looking for a new career direction

   DeborahK replied to DeborahK's topic in Career Support

   That sounds interesting! Can you tell me more about your work with umbilical stem cell preservation? Who employs you? What does the job entail? Do you travel from hospital to hospital giving in-service presentations, or what exactly? Are there p...

8. Looking for a new career direction

   DeborahK replied to DeborahK's topic in Career Support

   What kind of consulting do you have in mind? I am not interested in starting my own business--are there consultant "pools," where someone else does the marketing and identifies the need and then matches up consultants where needed?

9. Looking for a new career direction

   DeborahK replied to DeborahK's topic in Career Support

   I loved it for many years, but just eventually got tired of it. I'm not alone--the average professional lifespan for midwives is 10 years. It's hard work, physically and emotionally (and politically, in many settings). That's not to encourage you ...

10. Looking for a new career direction

    DeborahK posted a topic in Career Support

    I've been a nurse-midwife for many years, and am ready for an entirely new career direction within nursing, outside a hospital setting. Any suggestions for great, unusual nursing jobs? My past experience has also included HIV nursing here and in Af...

11. intrauterine pressure catheter(IUPC)

    DeborahK replied to nurse955's topic in Ob/Gyn

    I don't know about the legalities of your scope of practice, but at the hospital where I work, only the midwives and doctors insert IUPCs and FSEs. However, the technical skill is not difficult to learn, if you are permitted to do it by your scope o...

12. RN-BSN-Midwife?

    DeborahK replied to judit4424's topic in Pre-Nursing

    After getting your BSN, you will need to do 1-2 more years to become a nurse-midwife. Most programs are now 2 years long and grant a master's degree. You may be able to help finance this with financial aid from the school, and by getting a job in a...