klieben

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1. How soon to shower?

   klieben replied to Jemma's topic in Ob/Gyn

   Depends on the patient, and how they feel. I have let moms up after an hour or two to take a shower. There is always a chair in there and a rip cord to pull for help, also I am in the room cleaning it and changing it over to post partum while she i...

2. Pitocin ?

   klieben replied to Lucy RN's topic in Ob/Gyn

   Did you say your friend is only 37 weeks? If so, she shouldn't be induced unless there is a medical reason.

3. "Pregnancy-induced hypertension" aka "Pre-eclampsia"

   klieben replied to prn nurse's topic in Ob/Gyn

   We're doing q 5 min during the bolus then q 1 hour thereafter and prn. SOmetimes our docs will write for resps q 1 hour at night with other vs q 2 or sometimes even q 4 hours if they are stable and sleeping.

4. staffing

   klieben replied to Uptoherern's topic in Safety

   There is one answer here. Administration is not going to listen to you until they have to. The only way to force them to listen to your concerns is to speak as one voice. We often like to think that administration will see us as the professionals ...

5. pitocin protocol

   klieben replied to mommanurse's topic in Ob/Gyn

   We also mix our pit with D5LR, and don't have baby sugar problems as a result. We can go to 20, then to 30 with physician order. I have gone higher than that before with the physician present and an IUPC. No way would I go higher than 30 with an e...

6. Doing More With Less

   klieben replied to Nay's topic in Ob/Gyn

   Sounds like your nurses are in desperate need of a UNION! I know exactly where you are coming from, same story is happening all over this country. Nurses at my hospital were getting fed up with these exact issues, not enough nurses, inequitable pay...

7. Help! question about complications at a birth

   klieben replied to cathalenem's topic in Ob/Gyn

   OK guys, I just had to put my two cents worth in for small hospitals. All are not scarey nor are they bad. People can and do have safe and healthy births in small hospitals too! Our poor new nurse that started all this can learn and be an excellen...