IamSusan

IamSusan

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  1. Grunting

    Here is a link to a terribly sad story that includes an audio file of a baby grunting. Hurt by Homebirth: Wren's story, on the 1st anniversary of his birth and death
  2. Seems like a set up for the hospital to get sued to me. What are you supposed to do stand there while a patient precips or codes and say... but I don't have orders? Your hospital isn't backing you up with protocols and if they are putting you between...
  3. Does being an RN give me advantage if i want to be a doula?

    Honestly, if you want to know if being an RN is a handicap as a doula I would post the question on Mothering. But, seriously, Certified Nurse Midwives are the most educated midwives around and that's the safest route to becoming a midwife. If you bec...
  4. homework help ? postpartum hemorrhage

    In real life, in my settings, I would put on a call light or emergency light, and ask for another nurse. Often, this would be the charge nurse, who would then notify anyone who needed to come. Let's say you don't have an IV... you aren't set up at al...
  5. Someone else mentioned this but I think it bears repeating, the instructor may have indeed taken the error very seriously, but she has an obligation to not discuss the other student's errors with her classmates. I can't think of how many times I have...
  6. homework help ? postpartum hemorrhage

    Postpartum Hemorrhage Algorithm https://www.cmqcc.org/resources/ob_hemorrhage/protocols_guidelines Those links should help in terms of team members it would depend on how severe. It could range from a RN getting orders from an OB ( but, if you want t...
  7. L&D nurses - different viewpoints on birth

    I would say that if you do become a labor and delivery nurse you will find many others who came to the profession with the same beliefs you do. I know I did, I had even had a home birth. Some nurses do enter the profession and don't change any belief...
  8. Curve up or down?

    Thanks for the answer and a good rationale too! I noticed at a C/S today they had them on the side on a towel like the photo. At my new place we don't circulate felt very odd though when I started L and D we didn't circulate either.
  9. mother-baby RN role in infant suctioning

    Who does what with babies varies so much from hospital to hospital and unit to unit the answer will vary. What's important is that you have the policy and education to back up the care you give in your facility.
  10. Curve up or down?

    Thanks! The different thing in OB is that the doctor is taking them off the table herself. It's hard for me to imagine them using them curve up....?
  11. Have to start in L&D first before post-partum??

    I think labor and delivery first makes the most sense actually. Unless your unit is highly specialized you will learn a lot about how to care for postpartum patients in labor and delivery because you will be recovering the mom for the first couple ho...
  12. Curve up or down?

    This I know is a simple question for an OR nurse. I have been a L and D nurse for 25 years and was taught WAY back when to set up a sterile table with the curved instruments with the curve down ( rationale wouldn't the doc pick them up to use them th...
  13. Specializing as a new nurse??

    I have never done anything but OB and am very happy with the choice. But I went to nursing school because I wanted to go into midwifery.... I might not have even become a nurse if I didn't want to be a CNM.. which I never ended up doing but I still l...
  14. Autism and induction

    I think it's all correlation not causation and that it's terrible that some mother somewhere will refuse and indicated induction and really put her baby in harm's way... ( read what they have to say at Science Based Medicine ).... Also read this abou...
  15. Forgive if double post BUT.... so glad I left Florida long ago and live in California! CNA hospital with great pay, safe ratios mandated by law and happy experienced nurses mentoring wonderful new grads... the way it's supposed to be. You too can mak...