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crysobrn

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  1. Spin off of dating patients. RN's dating docs?

    crysobrn replied to GeminiTwinRN's topic in General Nursing

    YYYYYAAAAAAAAYYYYYYYY!!!!:yelclap:

  2. Best states for nursing - salary vs. housing costs

    crysobrn replied to centralflorida's topic in General Nursing

    One of our docs was moving to Arizona and he said the housing was outrageous but maybe it was the area he was in. They ended up going to North Carolina I

  3. Best states for nursing - salary vs. housing costs

    crysobrn replied to centralflorida's topic in General Nursing

    I'm in michigan. I live in a smaller community. Our base pay is about 20/h I think (it's been a while since I looked into that) but it's more in the bigger cities. But then again housing is probably...

  4. Spin off of dating patients. RN's dating docs?

    crysobrn replied to GeminiTwinRN's topic in General Nursing

    I love this!!! I find that I am living vicariously thru this thread LOL. Make sure to keep us

  5. Dads holding Moms during epidural placement?!?!

    crysobrn replied to miloisstinky's topic in Ob/Gyn

    This is why I dread going to computer charting!! I'm thinking we use more paper towels for charting than anything else. And some nice 2 in tape on the pants is a great place for charting too LOL... As...

  6. Dads holding Moms during epidural placement?!?!

    crysobrn replied to miloisstinky's topic in Ob/Gyn

    On occasion we do have the labor partners stand in front of the moms. I guess the way I see it, if it were me I'd like to have my husband in front of me rather than the nurse. Women can move whether...

  7. Spin off of dating patients. RN's dating docs?

    crysobrn replied to GeminiTwinRN's topic in General Nursing

    Call him!! You only live once. We actually have lots of nurse/doc relationships in our small community. As long as your both single why

  8. Caught a 12-pounder!

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

    Holy Moly. I joke that now we're doing sections for anything over 8lbs, or at least the moms are offered sections, Our OB's would freak if they thought they were dealing with a 12lber. Both of my kids...

  9. Terminations vs Fetal Demises

    crysobrn replied to nurse79's topic in Ob/Gyn

    Well most of the time they can't make it because it just happens very fast. We don't have residents or interns... just the two OB's and they have office and need to be home etc. The last one that I...

  10. L&D Nursing after neonatal loss...

    crysobrn replied to spottybug's topic in Ob/Gyn

    I'm sorry for your loss:o I work L&D and recently miscarried. It is frustrating for me at times because I do take care of teen moms, or moms that don't take care of or really want their children,...

  11. Terminations vs Fetal Demises

    crysobrn replied to nurse79's topic in Ob/Gyn

    We had a patient that was 21wks with twins and had a PPROM... I can't remember all the details but the hospital that we normally transfer our pretermers to refused to accept her because "it wasn't a...

  12. stillborn births

    crysobrn replied to shearernurse's topic in Ob/Gyn

    Very sad. Stillbirths are very hard. This is why I always tell my moms to come in when they call concerned or questioning. I'd rather have them come in and have it be nothing than have them stay at...

  13. Funding for School

    crysobrn replied to brandi110's topic in Michigan Nursing

    When I entered nursing school I had a one year old so I only worked on the weekends. Usually I worked two 10-hr days. Then went to school during the week. I applied for every feasible scholarship...

  14. Self Scheduling. Does it exist?

    crysobrn replied to badgernurse's topic in General Nursing

    I work in a smaller OB unit. We use self scheduling and it works pretty well for us. We work every third weekend and rotate holidays. Once we started self scheduling we did have to implement "rules"...

  15. Do you get a lot of false alarms coming in?

    crysobrn replied to Jo Dirt's topic in Ob/Gyn

    I'd say we do get a lot of false alarms. I think most women are truely experiencing something that they are worried about. We do get the occasional freq flyer that literally comes in with every vague...

  16. number of nurses in delivery room

    crysobrn replied to califrn's topic in Ob/Gyn

    We have two RN's in our vag deliveries... unless there is something really major going on somewhere else. If we anticipate problems and go ahead with a vag delivery we may call the ped dr (or an extra...

  17. doctor won't approve my birth plan...

    crysobrn replied to Saltysaltyky's topic in Ob/Gyn

    I don't think these are huge requests by any means. Our protocols state that we have to have IV access and still we've had docs that have said it's okay to have NO access if the patient requests...

  18. cord blood kits

    crysobrn replied to nurse79's topic in Ob/Gyn

    My understanding is that the AAP is not recommending private cord blood banking because the cost outweighs the true benefit. There have been very few documented cases of cord blood actually helping...

  19. blood

    crysobrn replied to sweetieann's topic in General Nursing

    We give thru a peripheral but our protocol is an 18ga. For peds or babies we go smaller

  20. Hours as a nurse

    crysobrn replied to pvit486's topic in General Nursing

    In our unit we work 12hr shifts. Some of us do days, some nights and some variable... 7-7. We self schedule and work every third weekend and every third holiday. It's really not that bad because most...

  21. Pregnant while in nursing school??

    crysobrn replied to crissy2629's topic in General Nursing

    I had a friend in the first year of our nursing program that got preggers for #4... She did not have a great support system and ended up taking off a year before she came back to finish her RN. There...

  22. How to recognize a Frequent Flyer

    crysobrn replied to EmerNurse's topic in Emergency

    I work in OB so we keep all of the pt's old fetal monitor strips in a file with their history. Generally if the file is too fat and heavy to remain in the drawer we know that we're dealing with a...

  23. Typical rate/dosage pitocin after C-Section

    crysobrn replied to TooterIA's topic in Ob/Gyn

    I second the "OUCH!!" Depending on the doc we use either 10 or 20 in 1000cc LR. Usually they get one or two liters total running at 125cc/h. One of our docs that just retired liked them to get pit in...

  24. on call pay?

    crysobrn replied to Pray's topic in Ob/Gyn

    We get $2 an hour for on call and if we get called in we get time and a half. I agree that it's not a lot to sit in your house ready to go. I almost prefer to be on call at night. I just call before...

  25. Does anyone know anything about the Universty of Phoenix online RN to MSN program?

    crysobrn replied to FlyNavyRN's topic in Online Distance Learning

    I'm not an expert but thought I'd give you the info that I do know. The person that I talked to was very good about answering questions. So, if you fill out one of their "call me I'd like more info"...