Ob-Gyn office nurse skills

can you go to the Ob clinic and shadow a nurse there, that way, you can ask her all the questions you have and you get to see what the day is like in that setting?

You should have no problem in an office setting without a refresher. Basically you prep patients for exam, assist in exams - handing swabs to doctor and putting them into the culture tubes, holding out slides for smears, etc. You do the U/A by dipstick (in many offices now there are machines you just put the stick in & get a print out), fingerstick for HgB. Glucometer testing. Sometimes blood draws for labs (not in most offices. You assist with U/S. You assist with procedures like colposcopies & biopsies. Give a lot of Depo shots. A lot of patient teaching - brush up on gestational diabetes especially. You usually answer calls for last minute appointments, assess for urgency and schedule appropriately. Also talking with patients in labor & assessing where they might be at so that doc can be informed, but not constantly interrupted to talk to patients in early labor who are anxious. You may return calls after doc has looked at chart & explain orders, labs, Rx's etc to patient. It's really a pretty good job and even though your experience is a while ago, it will be invaluable in this job. I'm sure he's looking for your assessment skills and expertise to help him out. So many doctors these days are using medical assistants only, it's good to have one who respects the skills and expertise that only an experienced RN has to offer. Depending how busy the practice is, some of the mundane stuff may be done by MA's or LPN's, leaving the RN free for the assessments, procedures & patient teaching. I'd say go for it. Good Luck!

Even though I am a Medical Assistant this gave me some well informed and appreciated advice to be read and absorbed as well. Thank you so much for taking the time to respond.

I, too, would greatly enjoy hearing from others who have worked in an OB GYN setting and can possibly more light on the situation.