do you have central monitoring???

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I recently relocated to the Boston, MA area and I am going on interviews at hospitals within a 40 mile redius of Boston. Today was my first day of interviews, and one of the hospitals north of Boston near the new hampshire border does not use central monitoring. it is a community hospital, and they say the ratio is 1:1. is this the norm, that there be no central monitoring? I come from the new york city and I have never heard of this. even if you are 1:1 what happens when you go to the bathroom and your patient in the meantime is deceling and your co workers at the nurses station don't know because there is no monitor at the desk ringing that something is wrong? The job itself seems great, but I am very uneasy with the monitoring. Give me your input please!!

Deb, again I agree with you. When the situation warrants it, and the nurse knows its limitations, central monitoring is a good thing. I just don't think it's a great thing when 1:1 is doable and the patient is low risk. My philosophy tends to be in favor of less technology when it isn't needed.

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i would prefer to work in a birth center really.

low intervention labor/delivery in the hospital are nearly impossible to do sadly.

hence,the need for central monitoring.

yea a birth center sounds better all the time.

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I am sooo with you on that! We should start our own birth center and invite all the allnurses L&D staff to join;) I really wish there were more options for women. Personally I would prefer a birthing center staffed by nurse midwives, and attached to a hospital with supportive OB/GYNs as backup. I think working in the NICU has made me too paranoid to go to a plain birth center.

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I hear ya fergus!

good day now.

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