J-me-RN

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1. Routine newborn blood glucose testing?

   J-me-RN replied to bbnurse's topic in Ob/Gyn

   You are correct. We do have a nursery and we do the baths in that nursery. I do not agree fully with this but that is how they do it at this facility. We have seperate L&D and PP units. When more comes over to PP the baby goes to the nursery ...

2. ldrp in the high risk ob setting

   J-me-RN replied to bpobrn's topic in Ob/Gyn

   My hospital is in the process of going to LDRP's. There are a lot of unknowns. Right now we function as two totally seperate units. L&D and PP and either unit can take antepartums. Although L&D usually keeps the more unstable ones. We ha...

3. Routine newborn blood glucose testing?

   J-me-RN replied to bbnurse's topic in Ob/Gyn

   We get a glucose on all of our babies in the nursery when they first come in. Our pediatricians all have different blood sugar orders for LGA, SGA, diabetic moms...

4. Newborn in coma after accidently administered CO2 instead of O2...

   J-me-RN replied to klone's topic in Ob/Gyn

   My question: Doesn't this hospital have a NICU, special care nursery or anything. They worked on this baby for 45 minutes and it was never moved from that particular "O2" source. Where I work that baby would have been moved to the NICU. And then h...

5. Best Stethoscope for Mother-Baby

   J-me-RN replied to FizzgigRN's topic in Ob/Gyn

   I have a littman that has two different size diaphragms. One is small and the other large. I love it because I work with newborns to adults. It was kind of expensive though. Check EBAY that is where I got mine for quite a bit cheap and it was bran...