How many of you wonderful nurses work in NICU, L&D or Mother/Baby in Atlanta???

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Specializes in womens services, mother/baby, nicu.

What is it that you like about your present position?? What might you dislike. Share your experiences!!

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Specializes in OB, Women’s health, Educator, Leadership.

I live in Atlanta and work in a small community hospital. Likes: you get to know the patient's and it feels good to know the community. Patient care feels more intimate because the client base is not as busy or impersonal as some larger city hospitals can be.

Also, working in L & D is so diverse - one minute you are educating parents to be about their induction, the next assisting and coaching the mom through labor. The next moment you may be holding the patient's hand while assisting in a c-section and recovery or reassuring a mother in triage afraid because she hasn't felt her baby move while you find her babies heart beat. The look in their eyes and the bond you feel is unlike anything I have ever experienced except for my own labor. Witnessing the miracle of birth is an honor I never grow tired of.

Dislikes: The fact that nurses don't have much say in what goes on or any protection! Management can tell them to do anything they would like and to hit the door if they don't like it. I don't feel like nurses in the South have a strong voice.

Also staffing can be challenging because they work you with minimal staff but you never know what is coming in.

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