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About Nurse4Moms

RN since 1982, BSN since 1984. Working on MSN. Single, 46, have 2 cats & my own home in FL. OB nurse since 1985, AWHONN certified since 1988. Civil service now with Navy. Love it!

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  1. Sponge Count for Vag Deliveries

    Thank you everyone for posting your replies on the sponge count in vag. deliveries thing. I've been an OB nurse since 1985 & have never done this; have not (thankfully) seen any patients with retained vaginal sponges, either (in any of the 11 fac...
  2. Sponge Count for Vag Deliveries

    I'm interested to know how many nurses are doing sponge counts for vaginal deliveries... and... 1) what your SOP for this is based on 2) do you use radiographic sponges exclusively now so that if your count's off & you have to do an Xray somethin...
  3. Question for Maternal/Child Nurses

    it would be a hoot to tell the powers that be that ob docs have to see/tend to peds patients! i was hired here as an l&d nurse specialist; nothin' to do with peds. we do not even have a pediatric rn here. we have the "women's & children's c...
  4. What is your biggest nursing pet peeve?

    Thanks for sharing your story! I'm not a mom (at least not of human kids), but I do think I would have a clue on how to be the parent. My ex-sister in law had a hideous little 2 yr old when she lived with my ex-husband & I... back in 1991. He cu...
  5. What is your biggest nursing pet peeve?

    Let's see: all the docs I work with wear scrub hats with different patterns, some are cartoons. The midwife I work with has lab coats with different little characters embroidered over her name. The 'ologists & CRNA's also have fun scrub hats. ...
  6. What is your biggest nursing pet peeve?

    yes, please!!! thank you for saying that. at my last job (oops, here we go!) someone always had to say "you don't want to be here today" or "boy are y'all in for it today." i finally actually brought it up in a staff meeting - that there is absolu...
  7. What is your biggest nursing pet peeve?

    So, someone being THAT demanding about getting pain meds can't wait 5 minutes to get them? I just can't see it! Another 2cents on that...
  8. What is your biggest nursing pet peeve?

    Oh, I do hear you on this one! Our unit recently had a FF flyer OB patient - very large woman who was gestational diabetic (obviously not "diet controlled"!), with a clomid pregnancy.. she started coming in for triage visits at 32 weeks. By the time...
  9. What is your biggest nursing pet peeve?

    Well, I've already made my reply to that "orientate" thing... I had a nursing instructor for med/surg who insisted on saying "Lar-NIX" and "phar-NIX." Oh, I just cringed every time! And coworkers in the south who think it's cute or OK to use terribl...
  10. What is your biggest nursing pet peeve?

    and...... just about hating to work on certain days when you know that the heavy smokers will be on - then you know you'll be doing twice your regular work! some of my friends & i started taking "fresh air" breaks... the smokers were floored! h...
  11. What is your biggest nursing pet peeve?

    I am very very weary of hearing the "racist" or "racial thing" comments by coworkers. I am sick to death of having people fear hearing it because they know they'll be the ones called to the floor for having reprimanded someone who always uses this a...
  12. What is your biggest nursing pet peeve?

    Oh, you got those things soooooooo right, labor sister! heehee I'm an L&D nurse, too... don't ya just get so bugged when they come in to see you all bright & smiley because they lost their mucus plug & they're "ready to have their baby....
  13. What is your biggest nursing pet peeve?

    Main Entry: ori-ent-ed Pronunciation: 'Or-E-"en-t&d, 'or- Function: adjective Date: 1944 : intellectually, emotionally, or functionally directed This is the word that means to be oriented in your unit... it's a very common mistake that everyone...
  14. What is your biggest nursing pet peeve?

    I guess I am an "old bitty nurse (should be spelled biddy, actually)... no kids, ... certainly not a Christian." What the heck has anyone's religion got to do with it? I, for one, can't STAND nurses who have a captive audience in their patients and ...
  15. Nurses struggling with mental illness

    wow, i really hear you, celtic! i'm 46 and have been diagnosed (at different times) as having depression, dysthymia, bipolar disease, and personality disorder. i think that bipolar probably "fits" best. i've been on prozac, zoloft, effexor, and now ...