SuperFlyRN

Those are great ideas! Thanks so much for the input :wink2:

I work with an OB/NICU nurse who is retiring this year after 38 years in our hospital and wanted something special to get her that she will love. She enjoys reading and gardening but I was wondering if anyone has any suggestions for a good book idea?...

My dad was born during WWII and my grandma delivered him in a bomb shelter in North London. He was her first and she was terrified and did not know what was going on..my grampa had just moved down the shelter to check on someone and he came back and ...

Our hospital recently went acute care only, meaning, no RPN's (same as LPN here in Canada). I say go straight for RN if you can. More possibilities. Ever since we went to a Birthing Center type facility where the staff is all cross-training, our ...

We are a rooming-in facility-completely. If mom is critical, babe goes to NICU (unfortunately, but not with the sick babies). In the rare instance that we take a baby to be watched at the desk, they are bottle-feeders. It is detrimental to mom in the...

Our unit started Emergency Drills about one year ago and they are fabulous! They are spontaneous and very realistic and, IMO, a very effective teaching and training tool. Our program director started the drills after a very unfortuante DIC a couple...

I totally agree. Part of my job is to help teach the new parents. In our facility we do not even HAVE a nursery. Every baby rooms-in and total care is taken by the new parents. When they are given their pre-natal tours they are explained that it is e...

Yup. We are in a union and they are required to call everyone. (otherwise it can be grieved). I work permanent nights and it irritates me to get called on my day off-especially at that unGodly hour!

I find that happens in every workplace as well, but I am especially noticing it recently. I work with a total lazy-do-the-bare-minimum nurse who does just enough to get by. I work in a Birthing Center and it is an always changing environment and this...

I've worked rotating for the first three years (two weeks days/two weeks nights) than we did a two and two for a while (two days than two nights than five off). Now I am strictly 12 hour nights and it is mainly because of childcare. My dh works long ...

I want NO ONE "managing" me when they have not even experienced bedside nursing themselves because it is too "icky" or whatnot. Try pharmacy. I was a Pharmacist for years before I returned to be an RN-big difference in pay (and cleanliness) but I ...

While I have nothing constructive to add except I think that it is a wonderful idea. Unfortunately I cannot think how to execute this but, wow, I know in our hospital this would be greatly appreciated. Nothing could be worse than on a horribly busy s...

Just last night I had a 23-year-old frequent flyer (she was discharged 2 days ago with her 4th child) call 911 to say "my baby's not eating"-he wasn't, because she ran out of the "free formula" that we gave her. So she came in via ambulance to get mo...

Uggggh! That makes me soooo glad that we don't have a nursery anymore although we somehow still get coerced into "watching" ppls babys at the desk-so much for rooming in. I love these ppl that try to force THEIR schedule on their newborn-I sometimes ...

In our hospital it is L&D is ALWAYS 1:1, even if that patient is long, thick and closed and intact and basically sleeping. PP our guidelines are four couplets per RN but, if necessary, we CAN go to five couplets per RN. My last shift I worked...

Love this thread...(you'll find I'm sporadically posted throughout!) Where else can you divulge all those inner irks!? I also LOVE when I walk into the room for the first time to introduce myself and ask how MOM AND BABY are doing and I get, (before ...

The "morning after" pill -RU486 and Ovral21/28 are not the same as Plan B.

I am a Pharmacist in Canada and Plan B has been available OTC to ALL AGES since then. Granted we dispense it a lot more-some repeaters-but considering I also work in L&D I see the other side. A decrease in unwanted pregnancies is alright by me....

There are some cultures (I ran into this situation once) that they do not believe in memoralizing the deceased. Everything was collected anyway, per the norm-just in case, but when it was mentioned they were horrified. It was a cultural thing in th...

Call me crazy, but I think it is the child's personality that makes them unique not some crazy name that they have to keep correcting the spelling or pronunciation on. A study was done a while back at BU about "unique" names and apparently they found...

We used to cup feed than a babe aspirated so that was the end of that. (A mother was taught how to do it and was sleepy and it was done incorrectly, apparently). We teach mom to finger feed, offer bottle and that is it. We have rooming in and babe's ...

We assist (not really given an option not to now that I think about it!) every circ. And believe it or not, only a third of our OB's use any sort of anesthestic (Ametop, 24%Sucrose, LIdo, etc)

YES! YeS! I've worked it for only 5 years-not long- but it never gets old. It is the miracle of life! and as cheesy as that sounds, it is true. WE may have seen it over and over but it is their FIRST. It is not their fault, nor concern with how inept...

That is why they made Magnums! For someone I, ahem, knew...

It is against our union for them to ask us any questions other than "is it work related?" (workers comp reasons). If they press any further~which they rarely do~ I ask to be passed through to our floor union rep. We do have the odd ppl that totally a...