what's the most deliveries you've done in a 12 hour shift?

klone, MSN, RN · Jan 10, 2011

My record is 3. I keep wanting to beat it (why? I don't know).

JaneyW · Jan 10, 2011

I once had 4 working as registry where they had me do the deliveries and someone else came in to recover--exhausting!!

klone, MSN, RN · Jan 10, 2011

I wouldn't mind that - another nurse coming in right after placenta and repair, just to do recovery, and I move on to another labor.

Queen2u · Jan 10, 2011

I work postpartum; I admitted 5 in a 12 hour shift......actually, I worked a 12 hour shift, but the postpartum admissions were all admitted in an 8 hour period......L&D was busy that night!!!!!

Elvish, BSN, DNP, RN, NP · Jan 10, 2011

My personal record for the nursery is 13 babies in one 12-hour shift. The most we've ever had that I'm aware of was 19 in 12 hours.

NurseNora, BSN, RN · Jan 10, 2011

Once in the old days when I was a young nurse, before fetal monitors, I had 8 deliveries and 6 admissions in an 8 hour shift with 2 nurses and a tech. One of us ran up and down the halls checking FHTs and checking women who wanted to push and moving them into the DR, the other ran from DR to DR doing the deliveries and sending them on to Recovery, and then cleaning the room (night shift didn't have housekeeping back then). The tech did the admissions. It's one of those nights you look back on and are grateful no one died.

bagladyrn, RN · Jan 11, 2011

7 deliveries in 12 hours with myself and one doctor in a 4 bed L&D! We started AND ended the shift with 8 women in L&D - 4 in rooms and 4 on stretchers behind screens. Deliver one, do a couple of pp checks and push them out to PP only to have the door fly open and another one be pushed in trailing amniotic fluid behind her.

By halfway through the night all the doc and I could do was look at each other and laugh as we ran past each other.

tablefor9, RN · Jan 11, 2011

Me personally? 4--1 C/S and 3 SVDs.

On unit? 19, 13 C/S and 6 SVDs.

CEG · Jan 12, 2011

I'm a CNM. During my 24 hour shift on Thanksgiving I had 1 NSVD in the AM, first assisted on a c-section and then had Thanksgiving Dinner. I got called back in that evening around nine and had 5 NSVDs between midnight and 7 am for my personal record of 7 in one call shift. Totally exhausted but at least I got Thanksgiving dinner :)

NurseInTexas12 · Feb 6, 2011

Maybe just 3, but I'm pretty sure 4.... courtesy of knocking out a couple of c-sections.

tntrn, ASN, RN · Feb 6, 2011

Once in the old days when I was a young nurse, before fetal monitors, I had 8 deliveries and 6 admissions in an 8 hour shift with 2 nurses and a tech. One of us ran up and down the halls checking FHTs and checking women who wanted to push and moving them into the DR, the other ran from DR to DR doing the deliveries and sending them on to Recovery, and then cleaning the room (night shift didn't have housekeeping back then). The tech did the admissions. It's one of those nights you look back on and are grateful no one died.

You and I worked in the same place! Well, maybe the same kind of place. We had 3 beds, but we had spaces at the end of the hall, between the scrub sinks, and in a pinch we used our 2 bed recovery room for labor patients. We usually had two nurses, sometimes an aid..... We didn't do epidurals, and I long for those days. When the babies came, they came!

But I am way too old for that kind of thing now.