L&D,Nursery Nurse and Post-Partum

[Act238RN]

Any one working in a OB dept were you work all areas. I work in a unit were if we have a bad baby we stabalize the newborn and send them to an another facility. I've been a nurse now in L&D for two years. And I really hadn't had my part with bad babies. I feel like the ped's docs want give us new nurses a chance to learn the skills needed to deal with bad babies it becomes very frustrating when the situation arises and your overlooked or looked at if you cant do the job or another nurse is called in to step into the situation. Any advice.

[L&DWannabe]

bad babies??

[Elvish, BSN, DNP, RN, NP]

Gray, floppy, don't want to breathe, preterm, that sort of thing.

[Act238RN]

I'm sorry I should have been more descriptive. Preterm babies like 33wks to

36wks. The last two we had need bagging and intubation and was put on the vent. Any suggestion on how to handle this situation when your the Charge nurse.

[feminist-mama]

I'd talk to your manager and try to work out a plan about you coming in to orient to babies when you're off or handing off the charge nurse role to another nurse when a nursery-needing baby is born.

I'm looking at a similar situation except that I've only been there 5 months. I'm not upset about it (yet!), but it does seem that other people tend to step in when there's a transfer or something emergent. Which is good of course, but I do *need* to learn what to do in order to become a reliable, safe nurse, so...

[nkochrn, RN]

I work in a rural hospital so we do the L&D, PP, and Nursery. I've been there for 5 years and have only had one 'bad' baby. I know there's been a few I've been thankful to not be there for though. Our hospital is having a STABLE class for all the nurses to attend. We have a lot of newer nurses and don't deliver that many babies to begin with (3-4/month). With our new female physicians it's picking up though.