MBRN23

My hospital doesn't offer any type of training like this, but I think it sounds like a wonderful idea if the patient is okay with it. I experienced my first nurse delivery (with only one glove and one BARE HAND...it was that quick!) 6 months into my first nursing job, with roughly 4 months L&D experience up to that point. I'm just glad I caught the baby in time and that there weren't any complications.

We have warmers in our labor/delivery rooms and in the newborn nursery, and they are stocked a little bit different. Labor rooms: 1 anesthesia bag, 1 infant oxygen mask, 1 neonate oxygen mask, betadine, 2 bulb syringes, 2 cord clamps, ETT tape, 2 temp probes, 8 pink/blue hats (4 of each color), scalpel, two 8 French suction catheters, 1 stethoscope, and oxygen and air tanks. We have a checklist on every warmer that we are supposed to go through when our patients are getting close to complete. It has every single one of these items on it and we just put a check by it, as well as record the volumes in the oxygen and air tanks. Nursery: Foam Posey restraints, temp probes, heart leads, infant and neonate face masks, BP cuffs (several of each size), and bulb syringes. No specific number of any of these, just several of each. Hope this helps!