twentyyears

twentyyears has 20 years experience and specializes in OB,ER, Medsurg.

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1. more meconium???

   twentyyears replied to babyktchr's topic in Ob/Gyn

   I do chart review for my hospital in Michigan. Michigan is involved in a project called Keystone through the Michigan Hospital Association. We have seen an increase in Meconium but our nicu admissions for late preterm infants has greatly decreased....

2. Detroit Free Press says bsn preferred...

   twentyyears replied to boat's topic in Michigan

   Alot of hospitals want a BSN, but they will give you time to abtain it. At the hospital I work at you have 5 yrs to get your BSN. Munson medical center gives you 10yrs to get it.

3. preterm inductions

   twentyyears replied to rebajcn's topic in Ob/Gyn

   evidence base practice. Check out keystone OB from MHA.

4. Need Help on Centricity Perinatal charting

   twentyyears replied to bandaidlady's topic in Ob/Gyn

   GE sometimes has a webinar that you can log into for training on the centricity system. I would contact your GE rep to find out when the next charting webinar is.

5. RNC study material

   twentyyears replied to PattonD's topic in Ob/Gyn

   I recently took my exam in In -PT OB and passed. I studied from intrapartum management modules. Olds maternal-newborn nursing womens health across the life span. I reviewed my awhonn book that we use for intermediate and advanced fetal monitoring...

6. Has anyone recently taken the NCC Inpt OB Certification Exam?

   twentyyears replied to LaborLovinRN's topic in Ob/Gyn

   pelham, I was wondering if you could share the info you obtained at the review class. I take the exam soon. I have been reading as much as possible but would be interested in borrowing, or buying your class outline

7. Co-sleeping?

   twentyyears replied to amber1142's topic in Ob/Gyn

   I recently did some research on this topic. 2,700 infants each year die form co-sleeping, from parents rolling over on them. only 2,300 infants die each year from sids. In my years working in ob over 20, I have had 4 families suffer a loss relate...

8. Nurses showing up late for work.

   twentyyears replied to justmanda's topic in General Nursing

   I work in a unionized hospital but we still have rules for being late. 7 times in a year verbal warning, 8 times is written warning, 9 times is 3 day suspension, and 10 times is ternination. Many people do not like this rule, but people are not lat...

9. corrective action for smoking

   twentyyears replied to twentyyears's topic in General Nursing

   We are a new non-smoking campus and several of the staff a not doing well with not smoking. Several have recieved a verbal warning, the next step would be a written warning, next is 3 day suspension and last is termination. We are a union facillity...

10. corrective action for smoking

    twentyyears posted a topic in General Nursing

    Has anyone recieved corrective action for smoking on a non-smoking campus, and if so what happened?

11. Scd

    twentyyears posted a topic in Ob/Gyn

    I have been trying to do some research on dvt prevention in post partum c-section mothers and gyne pt's. We have a doctor that insists that scd be worn all the time during to hospitalization, the only exception is when the pt is ambulating, if in th...

12. deliveries who attends

    twentyyears replied to jama's topic in Ob/Gyn

    all of our ob rns' and doctors are npr we have 2 nrp instructiors in our dept myself being one, plus all of our rt dept is nrp, along with er staff and parametics. we are all acls also. We are a level 1 nursery but we have all taken stable, also, an...

13. deliveries who attends

    twentyyears replied to jama's topic in Ob/Gyn

    I work in a small rural hospital, we do approx 170 deliveries a year, but we have 2 rn's at every delivery. we staff with 2/shift. If 2 people are delivering at the same time we call in another staff member or our manager is present or we have a re...

14. LOW patient satisfaction scores...

    twentyyears replied to MalgaBSN's topic in Ob/Gyn

    Our hospital used to have press gainey do our surveys, we have since changed to (PRC) Professional Research Consultants. Since the change our scores seem to reflect better the care we give. The OB dept that I work in has won an award for the highes...