Fyreflie

Fyreflie has 4 years experience.

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1. Best/Worst List of L&D nursing

   Fyreflie replied to hardworkinmama's topic in Ob/Gyn

   Best: being labour support through a difficult labour and seeing the looks on the parents' faces when they realize it was all worth it. Worst: still births and situations in which the patient or partner feel powerless or not in control of their expe...

2. L&D is my passion

   Fyreflie replied to luvababy5's topic in Ob/Gyn

   That's why I love my union!

3. If you are an advocate for natural birth/homebirth with CNM

   Fyreflie replied to hardworkinmama's topic in Ob/Gyn

   I've seen tons of side lying deliveries--I think it just depends on where you are. And I didn't see the OP as wanting to influence someone's choices, but rather as being worried that because she believes in non intervention she might find traditional...

4. If you are an advocate for natural birth/homebirth with CNM

   Fyreflie replied to hardworkinmama's topic in Ob/Gyn

   I am passionate about low intervention birth and have used to passion to help the women I care for--by doing as much education as I can in each labour room, providing them with information and tools to decide, answering questions honestly and getting...

5. Gas & Air For L&D/Home Births

   Fyreflie replied to DoGoodThenGo's topic in Ob/Gyn

   Entonox now has special filters and can be controlled by the mother--but I think Entonox way back when may have leaked quite heavily into the surroundings and perhaps been inhaled a bit much by the family, midwives etc, making them woozy and unable t...

6. Post op recovery of regional C-section

   Fyreflie replied to planny's topic in Ob/Gyn

   We recover our own sections in a PARR room on the unit. We use a normal BP/SPO2 machine that can hook up to leads if necessary (3 lead only), if there are any concerns in the OR they go to the main PARR. None of us have ACLS but obviously there is a ...

7. What do you chart when you have a normal vaginal delivery?

   Fyreflie replied to winter_green's topic in Ob/Gyn

   I still, after 5 years, pay a lot of attention to delivery notes! Something like this: 1526: vacuum applied after bladder emptied by Dr. X. 1529: head delivered and vacuum removed. 1530: delivery of live female, not vigorous, to warmer immediately...

8. Nurses Managing Epidural Pumps?

   Fyreflie replied to mommy2boysaz's topic in Ob/Gyn

   Up here in Canada I've worked in three facilities with completely different rules. In the first, we had a medical directive not only to manipulate the rate within a set range, but also to give top ups as ordered and to troubleshoot. In the second, w...

9. Pain Relief in Your Facility

   Fyreflie replied to Leggings and Lattes's topic in Ob/Gyn

   First hospital I worked at: 90% epi, 10% nothing (we didn't offer IV narcotics or entonox). 4000 deliveries/year. Second hospital: 60% epi for primes, 40% for multips, the rest IV fentanyl and/or gas, or nothing. 8-900 deliveries a year. Current hosp...

10. Heroin withdrawal

    Fyreflie replied to jodyangel's topic in Ob/Gyn

    Morphine for babies is the standard at every place I've worked at, I've never had to deal with a withdrawing Mom. What a tough situation *hugs*

11. Foley placement BEFORE anesthesia??

    Fyreflie replied to jodyangel's topic in Ob/Gyn

12. "true knot"

    Fyreflie replied to LouisVRN's topic in Ob/Gyn

    Seen lots! My sister was a double nuchal cord with a true knot. The most memorable one for me was a booked section--there was a true knot but it was a figure 8 knot!! We took pictures. It was bizarre and lucky she didn't labour.

13. Foley placement BEFORE anesthesia??

    Fyreflie replied to jodyangel's topic in Ob/Gyn

    We have 3 RNs for every CS--scrub, circulate and patient care (assists anesthetist and recovers patient). It's lovely.

14. Mat/child right after graduation?

    Fyreflie replied to alex-333's topic in Ob/Gyn

    I started in Toronto as a new grad and got a 4 minty perinatal program! It can be done

15. Foley placement BEFORE anesthesia??

    Fyreflie replied to jodyangel's topic in Ob/Gyn

    Even in the small hospital I worked in (separate OR staff) it was done post spinal. Why put someone through the discomfort and anxiety?