tasharn

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1. More Strange Baby Names

   tasharn replied to RNLaborNurse4U's topic in Ob/Gyn

   i am a labor and delivery nurse and we are getting a ton of newborn girls named nevaeh, which is heaven backwards.

2. Have I made a mistake?

   tasharn replied to tryingtomakeit's topic in Ob/Gyn

   I hate to sound horrible but welcome to the real world. I have been in l&d two years and I work alone on the night shift, without centeral monitoring and no in house dr. or surgery crew. Hope someone don't come in abrupted,

3. Neonate heel pricks for screening

   tasharn replied to dawnbee's topic in Ob/Gyn

   Lab does not draw our babies, The lpn or the rn draw the pku

4. Positive for Barbiturates

   tasharn replied to verock's topic in Ob/Gyn

   Well it is policy that if a patient is a drop in (meaning a hospital that didn't do the primary care) then we screen them both. Lots of mom's who are positive do hospital hopping in hopes of not getting caught and the baby taken away by dhs. I am s...

5. Favorite part of L&D Nursing

   tasharn replied to RNLaborNurse4U's topic in Ob/Gyn

   It gets me everytime when the dad cries.

6. How to deal with being childless in L&D

   tasharn replied to pebbles1977's topic in Ob/Gyn

   Okay I am the liar too, I have no children unless you'r my patient who is in so much pain then I have two. I think it is so important to bond with your patients, I have even had a patient scream at me "You don't know what this is like, so shut up" ...

7. A message to new grads: NEVER....

   tasharn replied to UM Review RN's topic in General Nursing

   Always believe a patient when they say this baby is coming and I am dying, because they know. Remember the patient in pain is not the way they really behave and mostly would feel sorry for yelling at you.

8. Tub VS Whirlpool in LDRP

   tasharn replied to Marcia RN's topic in Ob/Gyn

   I have never met a doctor that will preform a water birth. The risk for aspiration pneumonia is too high ( so i have been told) this is interesting to me.

9. Stirrups? WHY???

   tasharn replied to RNLaborNurse4U's topic in Ob/Gyn

   I work in l&d and have never done a delivery without stirrups, a broke down bed, and with out vaccum (with one doctor) every delivery is an emergancy situation and he gears up and gears my patients up.