rainrn12

rainrn12 specializes in Med surg, L&D.

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1. Initial newborn temp. rectal or axillary?

   rainrn12 replied to rainrn12's topic in Ob/Gyn

   Thanks everybody for your input and experiences. Does anyone know of where evidence based practice, or research articles on this can be found? I am looking for experiences, and verification on which way is correct, and then present written proof and/...

2. Initial newborn temp. rectal or axillary?

   rainrn12 posted a topic in Ob/Gyn

   Working in a community hospital our policy is to take a rectal temp initially to assess rectal patency. The team from the large regional hospital considers this barbaric. I have looked for evidence based research on both methods and have found none...

3. Please tell me about on-call time

   rainrn12 replied to future L&Dnurse's topic in Ob/Gyn

   Our on-call requirement time is 7 four hour blocks of time (28hrs) within a four week schedule. We get to choose the times we want. Two blocks (8hrs) have to be on a weekend. If we are not called in it is 2$ an hour. If we are called in it is time...

4. Circumcision on a few hour old newborn?

   rainrn12 replied to baby&mommynurse's topic in Ob/Gyn

   For the most part our docs wait until after the pedi sees the infant. We also do not have a specific policy of when the circ should be completed.