JeannaRN

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1. L&D nurse is calling formula poison!!!

   JeannaRN replied to hotmama2be's topic in Ob/Gyn

   Of course your baby is doing fine!! You are a good Mom. La Leche will never convince me that all the prisons and special needs classes are filled with people who were bottle fed. That is what they try to make it sound like with their formula is poi...

2. L&D nurse is calling formula poison!!!

   JeannaRN replied to hotmama2be's topic in Ob/Gyn

   Your mother is way off base and with such a judgeMENTAL attitude she must be one awful L and D nurse. Our nurses have the same approach as the above posters, who all gave you excellent advice. What does your "mother" suggest you feed your infant sin...

3. Dealing with personal prejudices?

   JeannaRN replied to purplepanda's topic in Ob/Gyn

   Don't they teach you in your nursing program that you are expected as a nurse to treat EVERYONE with compassion and to the best of your ability? That means that when the alcoholic with DT's, the gangbanger with the GSW, the homeless person with i...

4. C-Sections on the rise.

   JeannaRN replied to Halinja's topic in Ob/Gyn

   There was an article in the Maine paper about the c/sec rate here. One hospital had a 49% c/sec rate!!! All but one were in the 30% range. Now Maine women are not high powered execs who schedule a c/sec because of their busy lifestyle. The reasons...

5. Cva

   JeannaRN replied to labrador4122's topic in General Nursing

   You are so right, Tazzi. I lived this truth the last 10 years of my father's life. All it did was pit Dad against me and give me high BP. Is there anyone who your Mom will listen to? I imagine you and her Doc have read her the riot act already. D...

6. Calling in sick??

   JeannaRN replied to LUVtxNursing's topic in General Nursing

   WOW! Let me see-there's a nursing shortage--right??? You call in legitimately sick or your kid's sick. You even have notes from a Dr. You do not have a hx of calling in. And these shortsighted morons whose "expertise" is in healthcare terminat...

7. Hormone Replacement Therapy

   JeannaRN replied to TrudyRN's topic in Ob/Gyn

   I used it for 10 years. I used the Climara estrogen patch. I'd had a hyst 10 years earlier so only needed estrogen It was supposed to help prevent osteoporosis, heart disease and relieve menopausal hot flashes etc. Well, it was great in terms of...

8. +Nursing caps

   JeannaRN replied to Calgon-take.me.away's topic in General Nursing

   After having my cap get knocked of by the trapeze into a patient's USED bedpan--I gave up wearing a cap. I never had anyone treat me with less respect because of this.

9. Retaliation for voicing concern over unsafe pratices

   JeannaRN replied to Keysnurse2008's topic in Activism

   On behalf of other nurses and the patients who we care for I, for one, thank you for your tenaciousness and tenacity to follow through with this since 2005. You are an inspiration to others, TNNURSE.

10. Retaliation for voicing concern over unsafe pratices

    JeannaRN replied to Keysnurse2008's topic in Activism

    No one is holding a gun to your head forcing you to read TNN Nurses posts, Cosmo.

11. URETHRAL something.... does anyone know what my GYN was talking about?

    JeannaRN replied to estrogen's topic in Ob/Gyn

    I have a periurethral defect---could that be the word? Kegals do NOT work with this--been doing them for years! I need a laparoscopic Burch Colposuspension.