bunny722

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1. Non-viable baby, born alive -parent won't hold him, what do you do?

   bunny722 replied to enfermeraSG's topic in Ob/Gyn

   i have seen 22 weekers survive into healthy kids. Yes, many of them have physical or developmental problems, but they do survive. Another thing is that in my state if a baby is born alive a birth certificate needs to be done. Where I work we always ...

2. Are they still using Cytotec?

   bunny722 replied to HeartsOpenWide's topic in Ob/Gyn

   I cut and pasted this article, so I apologize the "form" is not better. A 38-Year-Old Woman With Fetal Loss and Hysterectomy Benjamin P. Sachs, MB, BS, Discussant DR DELBANCO: Mrs W is a married, self-employed, healthy woman living in a community sev...

3. Hospital Infant Security Systems

   bunny722 replied to BABYRN916's topic in Ob/Gyn

   The big city hospital I work in uses pretty much all of the above, but we also use the Huggs system. We don't usually have problems with it, and when an alarm does go off, security comes up and asks to see the baby. The bands never get stinky because...

4. Are they still using Cytotec?

   bunny722 replied to HeartsOpenWide's topic in Ob/Gyn

   I am an L & D nurse and we use cytotec all the time for cervical ripening. We use PO and PV routes. There is no waiver for patients to sign, and the doctors use it without giving the patients full, informed consent about the fact that it is not F...

5. New OB Nurses, Grads and Students, Please Feel Free to post your questions here:

   bunny722 replied to SmilingBluEyes's topic in Ob/Gyn

   I am a maternity nurse and I love it. If you click on the link for nursing schools on this website, you can then search by state and I think maybe by specialty too. Nursingspectrum.com is also a good website. I think if you can handle the gross stuff...

6. IV tips and tricks

   bunny722 replied to kloock's topic in Emergency

   I started my career on a med-surg floor in a community hospital and 22g were the norm. We would hang everything through them including blood. On the frail elderly we would use 24g if we had too (though not for blood). Larger catheters only lead to in...

7. What is it about Med-Surg?

   bunny722 replied to Mint Julip's topic in Med-Surg

   I worked on a very busy med-surg floor when I was a new grad. The nurse to patient ratios were too high, and the patients are very acute with IV's, tubes, pumps, post-op, epidurals, etc.. Then you have the elderly patients who are confused or combati...