How many deliveries a day?

enfermeraSG · Jun 18, 2005

So how many deliveries per month do you have on average?

This is really cool to see how different other hospitals are, and how diverse the staff must be. Everyone is so specialized where I work, meaning they work in their dept - and that's that. You really must know your stuff to work in these other hospitals! Sounds like you wouldn't experience burnout the same as a nurse in a hospital like mine. SG

NurseNora, BSN, RN · Jun 19, 2005

Currently work in a hospital that does about 75 deliveries a month. Some days there are no deliveries. We are all expected to do labor, post partum and nursery, but they make exceptions for old timers like me with strong L&D background. I don't have to do nursery, but I do do couplet care. I'll take care of a healthy newborn, but don't ask me to care for a sick one or to sit in a nursery all night. Nurses with strong nursery background don't have to do labor, but we all are expected to be able to do post partum.

In the big city medical center where I used to work, we did just over 700 deliveries a month; there were days (infrequent) where there were no deliveries. Even with inductions and C/S, sometimes that's just how it works out.

RNnL&D · Jun 19, 2005

I work acute (med/surg), post-partum, L&D, and also the ER. I sometimes am the baby nurse in cesareans. On our acute floor we will have post-partum mom/babe, post-op total knees or hips, COPD/pneumonia, Hospice patients, pediatric patients, infants with jaundice or RSV, post-op hernia repairs or cholecystectomy patients, occasionally a hysterectomy patient, etc.

What about infection control? I worked a small community 35 bed hospital, and it wasn't unusual for the "PP" unit to take overflow peds, ortho, etc. But we never took any patients with pneumonia, RSV, or any infections.

mugwump · Jun 19, 2005

I work at a tertiary center we say on the average we deliver a kindergarden class per day. We had over 8000 deliveries last year and our biggest month I belive was september where we had 843 deliveries.

allnurses Guide · Jun 20, 2005

What about infection control? I worked a small community 35 bed hospital, and it wasn't unusual for the "PP" unit to take overflow peds, ortho, etc. But we never took any patients with pneumonia, RSV, or any infections.

Our pp rooms are the last ones in the hall and we don't put infectious patients in there when we don't have pp patients.

We have 14 beds available in our small hospital.

steph

RNnL&D · Jun 20, 2005

Our pp rooms are the last ones in the hall and we don't put infectious patients in there when we don't have pp patients.
We have 14 beds available in our small hospital.
steph

14??? In the whole hospital? Wow, that is tiny. And I thought 35 was small. :chuckle

imenid37 · Jun 20, 2005

We have had 9 in one day. We do 50-75 deiliveries per month. Last year we had 680. It sems small to me, I had worked previosly where we averaged 200+/month. My friend works at a hospital in FL and she told me they have 10,000+ per year. Too many for me!

allnurses Guide · Jun 20, 2005

14??? In the whole hospital? Wow, that is tiny. And I thought 35 was small. :chuckle

We have 14 beds available in acute. Around the corner is L&D where we have one labor and delivery room but with backup of another room across the hall with two beds and full set up for another delivery - which we had going on last week - two at one time. That is unusual.

In that same area we used to have a M-SNF hall with a combo of M-SNF and LTC patients - 12 beds. Now they are offices.

We also have a LTC which is about 7 steps from our nursing station behind the double doors - I can't remember how many residents are there. There are two hallways. We have an annex which has LTC and an Alzheimer's unit, which is abou 18 miles away. Our ER has three beds.

We do ortho and general surgery and colonoscopies and obviously cesarean deliveries. Our nurses are cross-trained in most of the areas, including LTC, although it has been awhile since I've floated there. Years actually.

Not all the nurses have to work ER or OB . . but we encourage it. In a small town and a small hospital, you just never know what you will have.

In a way it is kinda cool because you get to do a bit of everything. I could never do OB all the time and my hat is off to those who do. I could do ER all the time though - I like that. Mostly our patients are clinic-style. We do have MI's and MVA's and I know of one gunshot wound since I've been here. We have a great relationship with our nearest NICU nurses - they fly up at a moment's notice when needed and boy are we grateful to see them.

It also can be boring at times. Sometimes what we call "Station One" has been closed . . . that is our 14 bed acute care side. Not one patient - that is strange.

We have a fully funtional lab, xray, sonography, physical therapy, cardiac rehab, outpatient care (wounds, IV infusions, etc). and I'm sure I'm missing something . . .

steph

rpbear · Jun 20, 2005

We do about 5000 deliveries a year, so on average about 12 per day, have had as many as 24 in one 12 hour shift. I don't think I could work somewhere that only does a few deliveries a month, I love OB so much that I can't see myself doing anything else, not even for one shift!