Do I fit in this category?

Published Dec 8, 2005

62 Posts

Specializes in Gyn, dermatology, aesthetics, wellness.

I'm not sure if I fit in here. I've been a nurse for 6 months now. I work on a GYN floor. We take care of post-op hysterectomy (TAH, TVH. LAVH), A&P repair, D&C, and oncologic gynecology (exploratory lap, appendectomy, hysterectomy, an occasional colostomy). And of course we get the pts that come back with complications from the surgery such as wound infection, ileus, etc. We are also the "dump floor". We get all the pts that were supposed to be outpatient surgery but had to stay for whatever reason. We get peds pts that can't be on peds because of being sex offenders , etc. And although our name is "Women and Children's Hospital" and we have a very skilled Labor and Delivery and Mother and Baby floor, We, the gyn (not ob) floor, still get all the preggies who are not laboring. Oh and fetal demise mothers and post-op C-sections. The other day, an OB nurse got mad at me because I had to send her a 9 weeker from my floor because we were overfilled with our own gyn post-ops admitted to the floor. Oh I forgot, we also get bariatrics patients, because on the weekends, the bariatric floor shuts down, and we take their patients so they can be off for the weekend :-) Well thanks for listening. I just needed to vent. I was originally just trying to say that I don't know really where I fit in. I think its sort of Med-Surg. What do you all think?