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  1. How long do you typically stay?

    How do you give shift to shift report? How many patients will you have? I too work until 0730 in labor/delivery. Most days, we leave by 0730, but, if someone comes in active labor at 0650, it's our responsiblity to admit them. We use computer cha...
  2. strange request?

    I remember the show. It was a food show (go figure) on PBS. The placenta was fried up and eaten on crackers. In England. Mine: I had a bald father rub the placenta on his head for 1/2hr, supposedly to grow back hair. All it did was make him look ...
  3. Is "magnet status" a joke?

    :nuke: Have to agree that I don't see much difference in being Magnet or not. Except for the public relations end of it. Most of the preparation for obtaining magnet status seems to be paperwork, committees.... not in actually improving bedside car...
  4. ACLS Question

    450 bed hospital, 30 bed LDRP, we do our own C/S and recovery which is why we have to have ACLS certification. (They say we legally have to have same skills as our main OR staff!) :nuke:
  5. "OB" ACLS?? Anyone heard of this?

    We do the full blown ACLS course every 2 years here. It's really scary to imagine having to use that stuff. We're lumped into the program with RNs from ICU/OR/ telemetry. It's like a foreign language. Except for some of the drugs (mag, epinephrin...
  6. laboring down?

    Unfortunately, when patients here the words "you're complete" they think they have to start pushing, urge or not. If they have an effective epidural, no urge, and are -3/-2, sometimes I tell a little white lie ans say they're an anterior lip. And e...
  7. Christmas Gift for your unit from docs

    Started out as an office nurse: got Christmas bonus(usually about $500.00) nice dinner at a restaurant for staff/family. Then went to hospital nursing (3rd shift) We see the empty tins of popcorn/cookies, the leftover Olive Garden lunches from the d...
  8. New interest in OB Nursing

    Get out there and interview! Gone are the days that the only way to get into OB is if nurses retired or died! Depending on the hospital, and nursing shortage, there should be positions open. In my hospital we currently have new grads and transfers...
  9. Any L&D nurses here?

    If you plan on diving straight into L&D, just remember, it's not only about giving birth. In today's society the "healthy" pregnant woman is a rarity. Most moms have other conditions that have to be attended to, hypertension, diabetes, cardiac,...
  10. No experience necessary?!?!

    Unless you're 80 years old, you can do this. I would encourage you while taking these pre-courses, to maybe get some sort of job in a hospital/nursing home. It might give you an idea of what it's all about. Remember, nursing is a 24hr/7day job, no...
  11. Is L&D my destiny?

    I'm partial to OB. But I have a Bachelors in Psych too. It truly comes in handy. Especially these days. Not a day goes by that we don't have either a unwed teen mother, or someone who has psychiatric problems (usually mild). For some reason, Rns...
  12. My patient was complete for 7 hours :(

    I'm with you SmilingEyes. I'm glad to see someone else out there believes in "laboring down". This is what I learned a long time ago (when dinosaurs roamed the earth). But where I work now, it's complete - push NOW, can't feel the "spot" 0 too bad...
  13. Caught my first yesterday!

    Congrats! What a feeling (both scary as all get out and exhilarating) But, forget the docs. Sometimes you just have to say, stop the panting and push! Why prolong moms pain? Before we had our "doc in the box" (the MD who spends the night with us),...
  14. wannabe lactation consultant

    We have 1 LC on staff, she is not an RN. She doesn't have the best relationship with the staff RNs. Not sure if this is because she isn't a nurse or because all she sees is the "boob-mouth" connection, can't see the whole pix of mom's physical/ment...
  15. The cheerleading is NOT helpful

    I'm usually charge RN on a midnight shift w/lots of "newer" nurses. I try to attend most births (mainly for support/another pair of hands/gopher). I try to mimic what their primary nurse is doing. The only time I try to intervene, is if I see that...