jlangrn

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1. Dealing with doctors.....

   jlangrn replied to fourbirds4me's topic in Ob/Gyn

   Wow, do I know where you are coming from....have one doc at our hospital who you can pretty much count on not getting there in time to deliver although he has been notified in plenty of time only to take his time getting there or coming in and tellin...

2. Freaky female anatomy

   jlangrn replied to Nurse Ratched's topic in General Nursing

   It is amazing the things we see as nurses isnt it???? Had a new grad LVN who had never done a cath on anyone. But she told me her instructor told her it was easy because the meatus would be sitting there winking at you......geez I dont remember any...

3. Freaky female anatomy

   jlangrn replied to Nurse Ratched's topic in General Nursing

   Just had to add a couple wierd ones for you. Couple years ago as a m/s nurse had to cath a guy and his meatus was between his scrotum and penis....not even hypospadia. More recently as an ob nurse went to do a straight cath for a ua and thought I ...

4. E-Mail Buddies Wanted ---

   jlangrn replied to Caseyrnbsn's topic in Ob/Gyn

   Hi all, Would love to email with other L&D, PP nurses. I worked med-surg and ER for nearly 6 yrs and got the opportunity to go into L&D in Sept. I really enjoy it most of the time, but sure don't feel real confident. Need a lot of one on ...

5. pitocin protocol

   jlangrn replied to mommanurse's topic in Ob/Gyn

   We can go to 42 mu but if hyperstim, we back off. Just recently our doctors started cutting back and not being so aggressive with pit, with increases of only 1 mu instead of 2mu or 6 mu increases. we mix 20 mu/1000 LR.

6. What is your title and what state/province are you in?

   jlangrn replied to P_RN's topic in General Nursing

   RN OB NURSE IN TX

7. New Nurses Poorly Educated

   jlangrn replied to Huganurse's topic in General Nursing

   I guess I was blessed with pretty good clinical rotations while in nursing school. I did actively search out any opportunity to do any new procedures and let the nurses know I wanted any procedures I could get. It helped that in the hospitals wher...

8. how many hours?

   jlangrn replied to monib's topic in General Nursing

   At our hospital we work a minimum of 84 hours in two weeks which is our "scheduled" hours...not counting when we get called in early or stay late to help out the oncoming/offgoing shift. Yeah, we are paid hourly.

9. Feeling much better after med error!

   jlangrn replied to Rosey's topic in General Nursing

   Attagirl Rosey, I am on the peer review committee at our facility and we have to deal with med errors on a quarterly bases. It is not always the easiest thing to find med errors on ourselves or others but it lets us learn from our errors and decide...

10. Help I am a new grad and I made a medication error!

    jlangrn replied to Rosey's topic in General Nursing

    Hey Rosey, You're like all of the rest of us, if you're a nurse you either have or will make a med error, we are just human. I agree this will make you a better nurse and it won't happen again, I'm sure. I also take the MAR to the room with me an...