teriadn2004

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1. What is the difference between HH Case Manager and hospital/insurance CM?

   teriadn2004 replied to MyUserName,RN's topic in Case Management

   How do you get started on Case Mngt? All the posted jobs want you to have experience or certification? Any ideas? I am particularly interested in Workers Comp.

2. Online Midwife Programs

   teriadn2004 replied to mickey72's topic in Ob/Gyn

   We have a CNM who delivers at our hosptial who graduated from Frontier - she is WONDERFUL!

3. pulling ob nurses to other floors

   teriadn2004 replied to mamaofsix's topic in Ob/Gyn

   We are a 4 bed LDRP with total 44 bed hospital - as above, us LDRP nurses are the "rescue squad" for the rest of the hopsital since we sometimes have no patients. Problem is, last week the nurses had both been pulled to Med-Surg where sometimes we ar...

4. BSN or training certifications? More competitive/competent in L&D?

   teriadn2004 replied to SiennaGreen's topic in Ob/Gyn

   I say get your BSN - I had similar plans to yours when I started - work now in LDRP in a hospital for the past 3.5 yrs and thought that was the only thing I ever wanted to do. However, in my previous career, I only had an AAS degree and found that ev...

5. OB "Freebies"

   teriadn2004 replied to malone2192's topic in Ob/Gyn

   We are currently struggling with this same issue and are no longer giving bags to our BF moms, but still giving to our FF moms. We are a very small unit - avg 10-15 deliveries per month, really have NO budget for gifts, but a volunteer makes knitted ...

6. Older Nursing students

   teriadn2004 replied to MarieD's topic in General Students

   I think you will find that there are a lot of "non-traditional" students in nursing programs these days. I graduated in 2004 with ADN and in 2006 with BSN and am now soon to be 54.....and I was not the oldest one in my class either. Hang in there, as...

7. Writing on Fetal Monitor strips

   teriadn2004 replied to teriadn2004's topic in Ob/Gyn

   Thanks everyone, I appreciate all the help

8. Writing on Fetal Monitor strips

   teriadn2004 replied to teriadn2004's topic in Ob/Gyn

   Thanks for your comments - we are opening a brand new unit in a brand new hospital and my NM just wanted to know what others are doing. Our understanding is that medical records will be scanning our strips into the record in addition to the recorded ...

9. Writing on Fetal Monitor strips

   teriadn2004 posted a topic in Ob/Gyn

   Does anyone know of any law or official documentation that addresses writing on the fetal monitor strip? Are people still documenting on the strip if they are doing elelctronic record? If anyone knows of any references, could you please list them? Th...

10. Do you have to be on-call?

    teriadn2004 replied to christine_chapel's topic in Ob/Gyn

    We are a 32 bed LDRP and we have mandatory call of 12 hrs per 4 week schedule. Sign up is for 4 hr increments - dates and shift needs are posted when the completed schedule comes out and all are expected to sign up, and if have not signed up by secon...

11. Don't know if I'm going to make it as an OB nurse

    teriadn2004 replied to Calzonan RN's topic in Ob/Gyn

    Wow! If I didn't know better, I would think that you got inside my head and wrote this post for me. I too am in my last week of orientation (14 weeks - although I lost time when pulled to do PP on three different days) - my preceptor kept telling me ...

12. Poll: What do you love about the NICU?

    teriadn2004 replied to carolina_girl's topic in NICU

    This is a wonderful post - I just accepted a position in NICU and I'm a little scared - I have 19mo experience as a nurse, but with adult primary care outpatient (basically, doctors office). I thought I always wanted to do L/D - but have never been a...

13. What is ur average 2 week take home pay?

    teriadn2004 replied to chioma829's topic in General Nursing

    I just graduated ADN 2004 and will complete BSN next month.....I have a 4.0 GPA.....however, I am the sole support for my family, provide the health insurance etc.....I had to work while in school and it has taken me 6 yrs to do this with taking clas...

14. Should BSNs be paid more?

    teriadn2004 replied to edcampbe's topic in General Nursing

15. Should BSNs be paid more?

    teriadn2004 replied to edcampbe's topic in General Nursing

    I don't know about ADN and BA in something else, but in other healthcare areas there is a difference in 2yr vs. 4yr. For example, in the laboratory there are medical lab techNICIANS (MLT) who went to school for 2 yrs at a community college and have a...