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At my school, during the OB rotation, we each took a turn (1 shift) rotating through surgery. That was probably my favorite part of OB. If the census was low we would have a mom or baby. Otherwise we would have a mom/baby pair. Another project we had to do was a teaching plan & presentation. Very easy rotation overall.
Assessment on mom and baby. LOTS of teaching (bathing baby, expected output, breastfeeding, recognizing infant cues, baby blues and postpartum depression, healing expectations of mom, etc). Baby baths. Some people got to watch c-sections and natural births (for us, it was based on whether you wanted to). We could also spend the day in NICU if we chose to. Moms and babies room together at my hospital, so no separate nursery.
I enjoyed OB but I found there was a lot of downtime for us students; we had one only mom/baby pair.
ImThatGuy, BSN, RN
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I've got OB/Peds this fall, and I'd like to know what some of you had to during your OB rotations. What else is typically required during OB? For example, are you forced to rotate through the nursery, etc?
I'll have that along with community and public health as well as issues and trends in healthcare and nursing.
Exciting semester.