Nursing Care Tech in OB

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I have a job interview on Tuesday for a NCT position on an OB floor. I have read mixed things about techs in OB and was wondering if, as nurses, you could share your personal experiences as to what a techs role is on your floor. Is it the same as a tech on any other floor (assisting to the bathroom/shower, I&O, pass meal trays, vitals, etc) or do OB techs have more specific duties? Also, any advice on preparing myself for my interview? I jsut finished my first clinical in nursing school and will be beginning my OB rotation in the fall...so I feel a little out of my element by not having completed my OB clinical yet. I am very excited & nervous, my hopes are to become an OB nurse...I really enjoy L&D, Mother/Baby, NICU...I feel like caring for babies is where I belong in nurisng :redpinkhe:redpinkhe so if i get this job it will be a HUGE step in the direction I want! Any info or advice is great appreciated:rolleyes:

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Yes, the techs on our floor do much the same as on any floor - vitals, helping patients to the bathroom, bringing them things they need . . . but they also assist on c-sections. I'm in nursery & postpartum, so I don't know what that entails exactly! I like working in OB, hope you get the job!

Kelly

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Specializes in Pediatrics.

Hi! I was a nursing assistant on a labor and delivery floor during nursing school. I did the same things as regular floor NAs and also was responsible for:

-stocking 15 labor rooms/3 ORs/PACU/Triage with the appropriate equipment/instruments

-setting up sterile instrument tables for lady partsl deliveries

-assisting RNs during and after deliveries (coaching mom through ctxs, weighing/measuring newborn, cleaning up mom after delivery)

-assisting RNs, MDs, Scrub Techs in the OR

-transporting patients from L&D to anywhere they needed to go (post partum, xray, to the OR, etc.)

-finding chairs and some juice for all those dads who suddenly get a little light headed once the pushing begins ;)

Hope that helps! Good luck to you! Don't be afriad to ask questions!

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Specializes in Labor & Delivery.

Hello. I am currently working as a nurse tech on an OB floor. I have finished my first 2 semesters of nursing school. Different hospitals allow you to do different things. At the hospital that I am at we are allowed to start IVs (we can only saline lock, no fluids), draw labs, insert indwelling catheters, straight cath, drop NG tubes, administer enemas, perform hearing screens on newborns, do/chart newborn vitals, first bath for baby, and all of the things that the previous posters have said =) I hope that you get the position! Working as a nurse tech has been the greatest experience in nursing that I have ever had. I could throw all of my clinical days away because just 2 days as a nurse tech taught me so much more =)

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thank you all! i went to my interview and it went great! unfortunately, the orientation times (4 days in a row) would interfere with my class schedule starting in August so i wasn't able to be hired on immediately. but i was told to call back in October to get an orientation set up in January when I am out of school for Christmas break! And i loved the OB floor!! I would first be oriented to a Mother/Baby unit and then later to NBN. The department manager told me that I would be allowed to draw labs as well as all of the things you mentioned (other than assisting in c-sections because the require you to be a scrub tech for that position) but it sounds so exciting and I really hope in October when I call back for Orientation set-ups that I still get OB because it is defiantely my dream ;) thanks again!

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Specializes in Ante-Intra-Postpartum, Post Gyne.
Hi! I was a nursing assistant on a labor and delivery floor during nursing school. I did the same things as regular floor NAs and also was responsible for:

-stocking 15 labor rooms/3 ORs/PACU/Triage with the appropriate equipment/instruments

-setting up sterile instrument tables for lady partsl deliveries

-assisting RNs during and after deliveries (coaching mom through ctxs, weighing/measuring newborn, cleaning up mom after delivery)

-assisting RNs, MDs, Scrub Techs in the OR

-transporting patients from L&D to anywhere they needed to go (post partum, xray, to the OR, etc.)

-finding chairs and some juice for all those dads who suddenly get a little light headed once the pushing begins ;)

Hope that helps! Good luck to you! Don't be afriad to ask questions!

Lucky! I wish we had Techs. We do not even have a secretary. Just RNs. A tech sounds like a dream!

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