OB census... is everyone slow right now?

They told me when I started that Dec and Jan were our slow months . . . 406 and 380 deliveries later, I don't believe them. This may be due in part to our new Women's Ctr (which I guess is not really "new" anymore as we've been there for 15 months now), or also that another of our large OB groups only will come to our hospital now and not the other hospital in town, but who knows?

I'm in NC and we've been going strong throughout the winter thus far. I guess we'll see what happens in the spring.

nope, not slow at all here!

In my area all of the local hospitals are SLOW. I have been cancelled several times recently. I have been an OB nurse for 8+ years and it always seems to be slow late winter and early spring. We had a LONG bad winter last year, so I figure people got pretty darn sick of eachother and when the weather finally broke they got out of the house and away from their mates:wink2: and now the census is low!

When are your slow times?

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our er is a lot slower than this time last year here in nj. we think the early flu shots made a difference.

Our regular deliveries are a bit slow, but we are jammed full of maternal transports and long-term antepartums. We don't really have enough extreme weather here in SoCal to think in terms of winter. I like the OPs explanation, though--it makes sense to me!

we were last week, but then "the shoe dropped" and we got busy this weekend.

We are painfully slow. My floor is an OB/LD/PP/GYN floor, and deliveries as well as GYN surgeries are low. It's getting to the point that many of us are considering asking about the possibility of cross-training to other units in the hospital so when we're cancelled, we have the option of floating out to the house.

Not really slow right now. October seems to be our slower month.

OB and, as a result, NICU are very slow right now at my hospital.