Michellelizz

Michellelizz has 6 years experience and specializes in Labour & Delivery.

Latest Activity

1. Scheduling elective inductions

   Michellelizz replied to kimldeth's topic in Ob/Gyn

   My hospital does about 5500k births/year. We can honestly have anywhere from 5 to 20 inductions for a day and we have 13 labour rooms. We don’t give our patients an actual day for inductions, we now...

2. Struggling to Transition to L and D

   Michellelizz replied to pikachu715's topic in Ob/Gyn

   Honestly, it takes a lot of time to get comfortable working in L&D. In terms of tasks, when I was new I found carrying a tiny notepad with checklists really helpful. For emergencies, it...

3. Lactation Consultant with no L&D experience?

   Michellelizz replied to Ladybird_RN's topic in Ob/Gyn

   I think you should go for postpartum/mother-baby over L&D. We don’t do much breastfeeding in L&D besides for a bit right after birth. When I worked postpartum, most of my time was educating...

4. How does your hospital do this? Newborn Assessment Nurse

   Michellelizz replied to burritoexpert's topic in Ob/Gyn

   I work L&D at a hospital that does around 400-500 births/month. Our charge nurse attends all deliveries with the primary L&D nurse just to make sure any resuscitation isn’t needed. The...

5. Postpartum unit staffing

   Michellelizz replied to NurseryRN12345's topic in Ob/Gyn

   When I worked postpartum before moving to L&D, it was a 1:5 ratio but the babies stayed with mom in room, we did not have a well-baby nursery. So that’s up to 10 patients, including babies. I...

6. Four 12s in a row?!?! ??

   Michellelizz replied to NightNerd's topic in General Nursing

   Is 4 in a row not common where you guys all work? Our full time lines are 4 on, 5

7. Nursing and Childbirth

   Michellelizz replied to Mary3010's topic in Ob/Gyn

   I wish we had 2 OBs but we just call in the second on-call if we need. We’re a teaching resident so we tend to have a lot of residents which can also be helpful. We have 3 ORs on our unit....

8. Nursing and Childbirth

   Michellelizz replied to Mary3010's topic in Ob/Gyn

   I work at a high volume hospital, doing around 5000 births/year with an OB in hospital 24/7 and a 2nd on-call. And yet, us RNs do deliver babies pretty often, mostly due to the OB being in another...

9. Applying to Labor & Delivery???

   Michellelizz replied to emmajanelle's topic in Ob/Gyn

   Hi, I’ve been working L&D since I graduated nursing school so it’s possible to get hired without much experience. You’re qualified for the jobs in that you’re a RN but the L&D...

10. 1-2 weeks pregnant

    Michellelizz replied to canoehead's topic in Ob/Gyn

    I’m confused by the “haven’t had the sex to seal the deal” comment. The urine tests they’re using say “1-2 weeks pregnant” as in they conceived around 1-2 weeks ago. It’s measuring the...

11. New L&D nurse, transfer from postpartum

    Michellelizz replied to Nurse611's topic in General Nursing

    I also made the switch from postpartum to L&D after a year in postpartum. I found that the experience helped with the postpartum part of L&D and newborn assessments but not with a laboring...

12. Advice? Postpartum or LDRP job?

    Michellelizz replied to nursing9462's topic in General Nursing

    L&D and postpartum are very different environments. I’ve worked both and don’t see how you can float every 4 hours if you have a labouring patient? L&D is definitely more stressful in my...

13. Quit While in Orientation (New grad)

    Michellelizz replied to SillyFever's topic in General Nursing

    I hate when nurses say this. There is absolutely no reason to be doing med surg for 2-3 years when your goal is to be in an area like L&D or NICU. I’d argue that training a new grad, who isn’t...