BirthingBabies

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1. I need major assistance

   BirthingBabies replied to Kay1669's topic in Ob/Gyn

   I went to a 2 year program and there are no difference at the hospital I work at except like 60 extra cents an hour or so... and I have no desire to ever go into management... so it was the best option for me! Plus I graduated college when I was onl...

2. Questions about L&D staffing and scheduling

   BirthingBabies replied to BELCJ's topic in Ob/Gyn

   I totally agree with the above post, we work minimal staff at night almost always, now we only deliver about 1200 a year but if we ever have an extra person, the first time it calms down, they are sent home right away on low census call... dayshift t...

3. Is this considered safe practice?

   BirthingBabies replied to rkmoyers's topic in Ob/Gyn

   Where I work, one RN goes back to circulate, which we always have the foley and the shave already done in the room. When we go back there is always a CRNA and anesthesia doc at the pt's head giving meds, documenting times, etc. We (the circulator) ...

4. What's the weirdest baby name?

   BirthingBabies replied to teresab_2000's topic in Ob/Gyn

   We had a baby born last week named "Unique" and let me tell you... he sure looked unique with the parents he had... both parents were white, very white, and baby was black, very black... and mom kept telling us she was trying to hide the fact that th...

5. PKU testing

   BirthingBabies replied to doglover21's topic in Ob/Gyn

   We do our Pku's at no less than 24 hours... we never have pt's go home prior to 24 hours... they have to stay according to policy at our hospital.

6. Typical rate/dosage pitocin after C-Section

   BirthingBabies replied to TooterIA's topic in Ob/Gyn

   after cord clamp, the crna normall adds 20mu of pit to whatever is left in the LR (if it's 500cc or more) and they usually come back to the room with that bag still hanging... in recovery and for 12 hours post op they get D5LR with 20 pit at 125hr.

7. Call Off's

   BirthingBabies replied to Annointed_RNStudent's topic in Ob/Gyn

   i work at a level II hospital where we have pp, nursery, level II nursery, l & d and antes are mixed in on the floor. we did 70 deliveries this month and we had to take low census this month like crazy... usually we do 80-90 and it isn't as bad....

8. What's the weirdest baby name?

   BirthingBabies replied to teresab_2000's topic in Ob/Gyn

   Harley and Davidson! haha.

9. Any chance of an ADN going straight into L&D upon graduation?

   BirthingBabies replied to purpledragon's topic in Ob/Gyn

   I did I did!! You can do it! :)

10. How many times did you take the NCLEX before you passed?

    BirthingBabies replied to blackberry4eva's topic in General Nursing

    once with the maximum number of questions (265 or so)

11. Mag Sulfate policy

    BirthingBabies replied to USA987's topic in Ob/Gyn

    we keep all of our magnesium mommas here on the floor, before or after delivery. it's actually not uncommon at all for us to have a momma on magnesium after delivery. our policy states that all momma's have a foley and a maintence line besides the ...

12. Pitocin question

    BirthingBabies replied to BirthingBabies's topic in Ob/Gyn

    Yeah sixty... 40 really isn't a huge surprise here, we have one doc that will go to 50mu... but I had never heard of 60... of course I've only been doing this for 6 months... :)

13. Pitocin question

    BirthingBabies posted a topic in Ob/Gyn

    Hey everyone, I am a fairly new nurse to the Labor and Delivery and I was just curious to the maximum amount of pitocin you all have seem used.... we had a 34.6 weeker with HELPP Syndrome we were inducing (who ended up being a C-Section) but we got ...

14. I had my first delivery

    BirthingBabies replied to eden's topic in Ob/Gyn

    Wow!! Amazing!! I am a new labor and delivery nurse and I have had 2 extremely close calls already but never delivered one yet... I look forward to the day I get too!!! :) Congrats!

15. After circumcision--what analgesic is...

    BirthingBabies replied to allthingsbright's topic in Ob/Gyn

    Our docs use a local and we give them SweetEase... they are usually pretty content afterwards.