Graciegirlienurse

Graciegirlienurse

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About Graciegirlienurse

I have a 6 year old son

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  1. Medical Marijuana for RN's

    I have been researching the requirements for medical marijuana prescritions and believe that I would be able to get an rx without any trouble. I have chronic muscle spasms related to a mva 2 years ago. My question is could using medical marijuana, as...
  2. Medical Marijuana for RN's

    Is it ok for a registered nurse to use medical marijuana (with a prescription) outside of work of course?
  3. VBA2C w/ 1st at 25 weeks

    http://www.ican-online.org/ good info and great resources. good luck, you can do it!
  4. VBA2C w/ 1st at 25 weeks

    http://www.ican-online.org/ awesome organization, great resources! every one of us should check it out and educate ourselves. and re reason for previous c/s, if a woman had a c/s for breech, that is quite different than a woman who had a c/s for ftp....
  5. opinions about epidurals

    What labor feels like...I had lots of braxton hicks contractions, no big deal, then my water broke so I got in the shower and soon had my first REAL contraction. Menstrual cramps my ass! My whole big belly right up to my ribs siezed up with the contr...
  6. Still Breastfeeding

    I told my three year old that the milk was gone, he had drank it all. he is now almost seven and talks fondly of breastfeeding and tells how he loved to nurse and drank all the milk until it was gone.
  7. do you HAVE to assist with circs?

    it has been researched and well documented that oral sucrose solution and non-nutritive sucking signifiganty reduce pain for neonates during procedures. this is not merely a distraction. I am an advocate for pain control in all of my patients, and do...
  8. do you HAVE to assist with circs?

    We also use sweetease for pain control, for blood draws, IM injections etc, it works well
  9. do you HAVE to assist with circs?

    I work in a large teaching hospital, shortly after my hire I told my nurse manager about my ethical objection to circumcision. I explained that i am opposed to permanantly altering someones body, especially thier genitals, without thier consent, with...
  10. Room for Guys in this specialty?

    why would a woman object to a male ob nurse when the majority of ob docs are still male??? we have a great male l&d nurse, and several male nurses who float to postpartum. you should go into whatever specialty that you have a passion for.
  11. Why did YOU choose OB nursing?

    We live in a culture where women are constantly sharing their 'horror' stories about birth. a pregnant woman is bombarded with these negative tales. I was lucky enough to have an amazing birth experience myself, I gave birth as a young teen and with ...
  12. celebrity deliveries

    I took care of the wife of a local tv personality as a gyn patient, they were super mellow and nice and did not seem to expect any special treatment.
  13. Well Baby Nursery Question

    we dont have a nursery for healthy babies, they are in with mom, or in the nicu. we chart on the babies Q4 when rooming in. the babies have a lojack alarm on that alarms if they are taken past certain parameters on the unit, and also if the alarm is ...
  14. Help needed!! --New and jobless RN

    so I graduated last june. I now work at ohsu. I found that there were plenty of positions to apply for last spring, but not a huge response to my applications, and I feel like I was a very competitive candidate. What ended up working for me was bypas...
  15. LATCH: a breastfeeding charting system and documentation tool

    We use the latch scoring system, it is ok...It is nice to see the assessment broken down into specific parts as opposed to just fair, good, poor. Another poster mentioned giving a score for an atempt, We do that here. say the baby is licking and root...