by november17

I ended up working in sort of an intraunit float pool. I don't go all over the hospital or anything, but I'm being farmed out to these different units underneath the one director that hired me (5 different units altogether). PRN work. Its pretty cool. Totally get to avoid all the politics, skip all the unit meetings, and set my own schedule for the most part. I'm really digging it.

One of the units I work on is 99% post-partum patients (not the birthing center, but this posh post-delivery unit). So I get to be a maternity nurse every now and then. I just want to mention that so far none of my patients have had any objections; and I've been relearning a lot of skills I've forgotten since I did my OB rotation in nursing school. Never thought it would happen in a million years.

Re: working maternity

That's great to hear, man. Especially given all these different stories I hear about men in nursing being shunned out of OB.