OBNurseryRN2006

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1. POLL: How many births/yr and do you have in-house anesthesia / OB providers?

   OBNurseryRN2006 replied to mitchsmom's topic in Ob/Gyn

   We do approx 400-500 del / year No to OB anesthesia 24/7 ( or at all for that matter, we don't do epidurals) regular anesthesia for c/s get called in. No to in house OB/GYN / FP doc (they do deliveries too)- they get called in when necessary, sometim...

2. What do you have?

   OBNurseryRN2006 replied to babynrsrn's topic in Ob/Gyn

   We have 3 LDR's (we really only use 2 of them and the 3rd for NST's etc)and 2 private postpartum rooms (mostly used for c/s) and 2 semi-private postpartum room (4 beds) for a total of 6 postpartum beds. We have a c/s suite and a well baby newborn nur...

3. How much pitocin SQ to give after placenta delivery?

   OBNurseryRN2006 replied to epiphany's topic in Ob/Gyn

   We will give 10 Units IM after placenta if pt has no IV. Never heard of giving it Sub-Q.

4. bedside ultrasounds-nursing restrictions

   OBNurseryRN2006 replied to SheaOBRN's topic in Ob/Gyn

   Like the others have said - documentation of special training should be present before RN's should be allowed to do this routinely . IMO anyways. We (RN's) in my unit do not use the sonosite - unless we are messing around with it on ourselves/pregnan...

5. Help me decompress

   OBNurseryRN2006 replied to daisybaby's topic in Ob/Gyn

   I've also seen this - several years ago we had a brand new ( new to us had 20+ years of ob/gyn experience) OB, it was his first full weekend oncall and we had someone come in by ambulance 8mos preg and heavy vag bleeding - which brought the same sort...

6. opinions about epidurals

   OBNurseryRN2006 replied to Jayla's topic in Ob/Gyn

   Hi all, I can't really give too much of an opinion because the OB unit I work on does not offer epidurals. But i do know that a large number of women choose to drive 90 miles to the next nearest hospital to birth their babies because they offer epidu...

7. Vendoyne policy question

   OBNurseryRN2006 replied to Altalorraine's topic in Ob/Gyn

   HEHE - i was wondering what vendoyne was too. We use what we call SCD's, which sounds like the same thing, plastic boots that inflate and deflate periodically. We put them on prior to going into surgery, they run during surgery and after until mom it...

8. Does your unit use spinals?

   OBNurseryRN2006 replied to mitchsmom's topic in Ob/Gyn

   We do intrathecals for relief of labor pain, which is a spinal shot. We use duramorph and fentanyl, the OB's and FP dr.'s do them on their patients - they all have been specially trained. We do not offer epidurals at our facility and only just starte...

9. Patient dies of Mag sulfate overdose

   OBNurseryRN2006 replied to tamrnmomof4's topic in Ob/Gyn

   At our facility if it daytime work hours then the pharmacy will mix and send our MGSO4 to the unit - but if it's night shift and we are just starting the MGSO4 we mix it up ourselves following very specific standing orders, then it must be co-signed ...

10. What is your unit's Uniform Policy

    OBNurseryRN2006 replied to 1994OBRN's topic in Ob/Gyn

    We recently changed our policy due to the hospital out sourcing their laundry - used to be we wore hospital laundered scrubs, changed when we got to work, had to wear shoes that were left at hospital, not worn outside. Now that the hospital has outso...

11. Two pregnancy-related questions

    OBNurseryRN2006 replied to NurseyTonyaLPN's topic in Ob/Gyn

    Hi - I'm coming out of lurkdom to give my 2 cents on your second question - as far as cervical dilation going "backwards" from my experience ( 5yrs L&D) this is caused by swelling of the cervix from either premature maternal pushing / bearing dow...