OB interview!!!! Help!

You asked the questions HERE you should ask in your interview.....very good questions.

I love what I do, although I am finally about to get off nightshift after 7 straight years on it (on and off, nine). I have had enough of it.

Lots of people do Baylor type plans and love it. As long as you can sleep all day and your family/s/o support this, you will do ok. But you have to remain very committed to your sleeptime, as do they, or it won't work.

As far as the other questions, those are ones you should ask when being interviewed. Patient-staff ratios vary a lot and especially, do, depending on whether you are a hospital that does Labor and Delivery and Mother-baby as separate units, or you are an LDRP (all of them together). Staffing gets shifted a lot in LDRPs, so you have to be able to do them all, and well, and also be willing to shift patient loads around a lot as the census changes.

Ask these questions when the time comes for the interview and decide for yourself, if this is for you. It's obviously, very different than OR nursing-----and you may or may not love it. Depends on how much you love being in the OR I guess.

Good luck whatever you do decide.

I have been a labor nurse my entire career and am so burnt out on it. I am sick of being treated like crap from the patients families when their loved ones are in pain. I can do only so much without a doctor's order. You spend 12 hours catering to their every whim and the doc comes in, delivers the baby, gets all the thanks, then leaves. You always have to be smiling even though you want to wring their necks. Depending on the hospital size and level of care it can be a very stressful position. Good luck to you.