I'm looking for feedback from labor and delivery nurses to see how many make a specialty differential (like ICU or ER nurses make.) I work on a labor floor where we do between 70-85 deliveries a month, have a level 3 NICU at our hospital and are so short staffed that the 1-1 nursing for labor pts. usually goes right out the window. I'd like to know how many of you get a specialty differential, or is this wishful thinking?
I think we should get a specialty premium, especially with the increasing numbers of sicker pts, increasing number of advanced maternal age pts, and with the numbers of pts. transferred to our level 3 facility that the level 1 or 2 hospitals can not manage.
wanttodonicu
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where in wisconsin doyou live and what hospital has the shortage. i will graduate in may and would love to work in nicu or birthing center. thanks
up here in superior