As a manager, I have written policy in two hospitals forbidding nurses to hold legs, just due to nurse injury -- I know several nurses who have had either shoulder or back surgery from this practice. Families can hold legs, or the leg rests (don't u...
dwetherelt replied to teresab_2000's topic in Ob/Gyn
One mom named her little girl Meconium. An RN said "you can't name her that, it's baby poop!" and mom said, "but on one knows that". Kept the name . . .
I managed a unit several years ago; when the BON said it did fall within the scope of RNs to perform amniotomy we initiated an education program and then let the RNs perform the amniotomy (we also inserted IUPCs and applied FSE's). BUT, I told the s...
dwetherelt replied to Student_Nurse_Cossman's topic in Career Support
. . . depending on your locale, quite a ways! I've been an RN for 28 years and for various reasons (none of them being lack of desire) I still have "only" my ADN. What I DO have is a wealth of experience and a good measure of common sense . . . I'v...
dwetherelt replied to HeartsOpenWide's topic in Ob/Gyn
The national c/s rate is close to 30%, but not 50% (yet). Section on demand is being touted as a woman's "right" ~ the last couple conferences I've been to have essentially said if a prime (or anyone else) requests a section and the OB refuses, and ...
dwetherelt replied to NewbieNurse2005's topic in General Nursing
While hospitals are looking to decrease the poundage of disposal of red-bags (because it is VERY expensive) no one is looking to increase infection. Check with your Infection Control people, one IC defined contamination is when something has more th...
dwetherelt replied to dwetherelt's topic in Ob/Gyn
I'd like to thank everyone who has taken the time to write in response to my question. The upshot is that there are no easily available statistics available (darn!). We are doing community focus groups to see what (if anything) the moms have to say...
we are in the planning phase for a new ob unit; the staff really wants to go to ldrps, but we are meeting wide-spread resistance among the ob providers. the perinatologist has stated "ldrps were "in" in the 80's but are on the way out, everyone is r...