crysobrn

crysobrn

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  1. How to get nursery job?

    crysobrn replied to MommyandRN's topic in Ob/Gyn

    In the region I work, all the hospitals do mother/baby couplets. Where I am we ALL have to cross train to l&d, postpartum,nursery (including intermediate care nsy), and antepartum. Even if you...

  2. Coaching my daughter in childbirth

    crysobrn replied to mleern's topic in Ob/Gyn

    Congrats on being included in the birth of your grandbaby. I think there was a lot of good info by pp. I just wanted to say that I coached my sister during her delivery almost 2 yrs ago... it was a...

  3. care of patients with a loss

    crysobrn replied to jrring1019's topic in Ob/Gyn

    First of all I want to say sorry to you. Second thank you for having the courage to write down your thoughts during this tough time. I had a miscarriage this summer at 12 wks... I never could have...

  4. Child care-what do other nurses do??

    crysobrn replied to Otessa's topic in General Nursing

    I work part time pretty much for the issue of child care. My dh works 3-12's a week and I work one or two. We self schedule so it works out nicely. Thy only real downer is the pay cut I took. It's...

  5. NARCAN - what's your policy

    crysobrn replied to 33-weeker's topic in Ob/Gyn

    :yeahthat: We rarely get OB's saying anything about babies because they don't want to deal with them, once they are out. We use narcan and ppv according to protocol and call the peds if

  6. What do you consider 'am'

    crysobrn replied to widi96's topic in General Nursing

    We usually have them done between 5 and 6... Our lab would ask if they could be combined if there was a time other than

  7. Postpartum admission criteria

    crysobrn replied to l.d.jae's topic in Ob/Gyn

    We are a smaller hospital... so all l&d, postpartum, antepartum etc is all together. We do not readmit infected cases. We will readmit for high bp's if needed or maybe for hemorrhage (I haven't...

  8. STABLE exam

    crysobrn replied to Ponder's topic in Ob/Gyn

    Isn't Stable for smaller outlying hospitals that don't have a nicu?? I thought the point was to stabilize the baby to get them to a facility with a nicu... if you have one... not sure what you'd need...

  9. Precipitous Second Stage Question

    crysobrn replied to TarheelRN's topic in Ob/Gyn

    I've never trusted a multip LOL... Especially one with an epidural. I make sure to check them with changes in the strip and even that is obviously not fool proof. Don't feel bad. One of my favorite...

  10. Anyone working for WIC?

    crysobrn replied to nurseaboveboard's topic in General Nursing

    Sorry to hear things didn't work

  11. Your personal delivery experience- what happened

    crysobrn replied to DEB52's topic in Ob/Gyn

    I was young when I had my son. I tried to read up on everything about labor and delivery as well as caring for a newborn, breastfeeding etc. I'm not sure that it really helped LOL... I went to my OB...

  12. stillborn births

    crysobrn replied to shearernurse's topic in Ob/Gyn

    Starsgirl... Thank you for sharing your story. It means a lot of hear

  13. A Father's Tears

    crysobrn replied to Elvish's topic in Ob/Gyn

    Very nicely written. Thank you for sharing your experience. I'm sure that his mom and dad would be very happy that so many of us were touched by his pure

  14. Anyone working for WIC?

    crysobrn replied to nurseaboveboard's topic in General Nursing

    I'm not sure that I fully understand WIC. They do promote breastfeeding right? But at the same time I get tons of patients that say "I'm going to bottle feed because I get free formula from WIC...

  15. Do nurses collect cord blood?

    crysobrn replied to PlourdieRN's topic in Ob/Gyn

    Our docs collect cord blood. If for lab, even in an unnattended delivery I have too much to be doing to be collecting cord blood, I wait til the doc gets there. For collection kits, we generally...

  16. 17-lb Russian baby

    crysobrn replied to Elvish's topic in Ob/Gyn

    My gramma had 10 kids, 9 relatively easy vag deliveries. She considered staying home for number 10 since at that point it's "old hat" and difficult to find a sitter etc... She ended up a c/s for...

  17. Complicated Staffing Question

    crysobrn replied to JenTheRN's topic in Ob/Gyn

    You're probably right. Our higher ups say that if someone is coming down the hall then one of the nurses on the other floors will drop what they're doing and come help... We are so offended by that...

  18. Complicated Staffing Question

    crysobrn replied to JenTheRN's topic in Ob/Gyn

    UNSAFE...We have a small unit similar to what you're describing. We always have two OB RN's in house... We would like to keep them both on the floor but if there are NO patients then the management...

  19. sterile gloves

    crysobrn replied to crissrn27's topic in Ob/Gyn

    Same here. Just clean gloves unless we're catching a hand off at a c/s... Usually our peds do that but if they don't make it,it's up to

  20. Funny OB things people say

    crysobrn replied to at your cervix's topic in Ob/Gyn

    I had a patient not too long ago that had her baby and almost immediately started to come down with the stomach flu... the same one her entire family had. She thought she was safe in the hospital. She...

  21. Pitocin induction

    crysobrn replied to californianclextaker's topic in Ob/Gyn

    I also would not have turned the pit back on without a reactive strip. Our protocol is a reactive strip must be obtained prior to starting pit, placing cervidil etc... If the doc wanted to start it...

  22. OB foreign language

    crysobrn replied to HeartsOpenWide's topic in Ob/Gyn

    I've worked in OB for several years now and just when I think I get them all the more seasoned staff sneak in another abbreviation... After about a year and a half I remember feeling like I knew what...

  23. epidural dosing

    crysobrn replied to crissrn27's topic in Ob/Gyn

    For labor patients. We do initiate the continuous, but we are not to increase the dose... We have a standing order for ephedrine also. We can turn the pump off or down if the doc/crna orders. Docs...

  24. on-call practices and compensation

    crysobrn replied to roady's topic in Ob/Gyn

    I work in a small OB unit (approx 450 del/yr). We do not have mandatory on call. But we do post an on call list when the schedule is put out so that shifts are (hopefully) covered by an on call nurse....

  25. Do nurses do it all?

    crysobrn replied to babyjen's topic in Ob/Gyn

    Personally I try to avoid delivering babies LOL... But we are a smaller hospital, with docs that are home at office etc that sometimes cut it close and sometimes don't make it at all. We do call the...