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1. Sponge Count for Vag Deliveries

   Nurse4Moms replied to Nurse4Moms's topic in Ob/Gyn

   Thank you everyone for posting your replies on the sponge count in vag. deliveries thing. I've been an OB nurse since 1985 & have never done this; have not (thankfully) seen any patients with...

2. Sponge Count for Vag Deliveries

   Nurse4Moms posted a topic in Ob/Gyn

   I'm interested to know how many nurses are doing sponge counts for lady partsl deliveries... and... 1) what your SOP for this is based on 2) do you use radiographic sponges exclusively now so that if...

3. Question for Maternal/Child Nurses

   Nurse4Moms replied to Nurse4Moms's topic in Pediatric

   it would be a hoot to tell the powers that be that ob docs have to see/tend to peds patients! i was hired here as an l&d nurse specialist; nothin' to do with peds. we do not even have a pediatric...

4. What is your biggest nursing pet peeve?

   Nurse4Moms replied to ferfer's topic in General Nursing

   Thanks for sharing your story! I'm not a mom (at least not of human kids), but I do think I would have a clue on how to be the parent. My ex-sister in law had a hideous little 2 yr old when she lived...

5. What is your biggest nursing pet peeve?

   Nurse4Moms replied to ferfer's topic in General Nursing

   Let's see: all the docs I work with wear scrub hats with different patterns, some are cartoons. The midwife I work with has lab coats with different little characters embroidered over her name. The...

6. What is your biggest nursing pet peeve?

   Nurse4Moms replied to ferfer's topic in General Nursing

   yes, please!!! thank you for saying that. at my last job (oops, here we go!) someone always had to say "you don't want to be here today" or "boy are y'all in for it today." i finally actually...

7. What is your biggest nursing pet peeve?

   Nurse4Moms replied to ferfer's topic in General Nursing

   So, someone being THAT demanding about getting pain meds can't wait 5 minutes to get them? I just can't see it! Another 2cents on

8. What is your biggest nursing pet peeve?

   Nurse4Moms replied to ferfer's topic in General Nursing

   Oh, I do hear you on this one! Our unit recently had a FF flyer OB patient - very large woman who was gestational diabetic (obviously not "diet controlled"!), with a clomid pregnancy.. she started...

9. What is your biggest nursing pet peeve?

   Nurse4Moms replied to ferfer's topic in General Nursing

   Well, I've already made my reply to that "orientate" thing... I had a nursing instructor for med/surg who insisted on saying "Lar-NIX" and "phar-NIX." Oh, I just cringed every time! And coworkers in...

10. What is your biggest nursing pet peeve?

    Nurse4Moms replied to ferfer's topic in General Nursing

    and...... just about hating to work on certain days when you know that the heavy smokers will be on - then you know you'll be doing twice your regular work! some of my friends & i started taking...

11. What is your biggest nursing pet peeve?

    Nurse4Moms replied to ferfer's topic in General Nursing

    I am very very weary of hearing the "racist" or "racial thing" comments by coworkers. I am sick to death of having people fear hearing it because they know they'll be the ones called to the floor for...

12. What is your biggest nursing pet peeve?

    Nurse4Moms replied to ferfer's topic in General Nursing

    Oh, you got those things soooooooo right, labor sister! heehee I'm an L&D nurse, too... don't ya just get so bugged when they come in to see you all bright & smiley because they lost their...

13. What is your biggest nursing pet peeve?

    Nurse4Moms replied to ferfer's topic in General Nursing

    Main Entry: ori-ent-ed Pronunciation: 'Or-E-"en-t&d, 'or- Function: adjective Date: 1944 : intellectually, emotionally, or functionally directed This is the word that means to be oriented in...

14. What is your biggest nursing pet peeve?

    Nurse4Moms replied to ferfer's topic in General Nursing

    I guess I am an "old bitty nurse (should be spelled biddy, actually)... no kids, ... certainly not a Christian." What the heck has anyone's religion got to do with it? I, for one, can't STAND nurses...

15. Nurses struggling with mental illness

    Nurse4Moms replied to Severina's topic in Nurse Disabilities

    wow, i really hear you, celtic! i'm 46 and have been diagnosed (at different times) as having depression, dysthymia, bipolar disease, and personality disorder. i think that bipolar probably "fits"...