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I am the new RN Manager in a Family Planning Clinic, We only have latex free products here per the last manager's request. We have one staff member w/ an allergy, but no others. This is expensive and I am researching if any other clinics are going al...

Shay, I love You!!! This has been my argument for years, I NEVER get weighed if it has nothing to do w/ the visit. I think it's so robotic to automatically weigh everyone who comes thru the door. Do some frikin independant thinking first!! I love to ...

Mother/Baby/RN I was shocked to hear about VBACs not being the way to go anymore. When did this happen??? I know there is always that risk of uterine rupture, have even seen it, but across the board decisions prefering not to do them at all?? I hadn'...

Wow, This is a tough one, but I tend to agree w/ Shay on this. I too have seen too many crack addicted moms who don't give a rats ass for these kids they keep popping out year after year. I spoke in another thread about one christmas doing an emergen...

Oh you guys, all this L/D talk is making me want to go back there!!! Cervix, ant. lip, rim, pushing........Ok, Ok, I'm thinking about why I left it, I'm Ok now, back to clinic nursing....... 9-5, no weekends...... It's Ok, I'm fine.... Oh but thanks...

During C/S when doc flips uterus out onto belly to sew and irrigate, dad looks over sterile drape, and as he slowly falls to the floor says;" Oh My God...Twins!! Also during pushing a woman yells out " I sure hope she looks like me and not you (dad) ...

You're right! We also used the 23 hour "Observation stay pt" the doc's had that long to make up their mind before admitting them. It did get crazy sometimes when we also didn't have enough beds. I remember once needing to "kick out an NST" from her b...

Dear Hard Days Night, I used to work in a small community Hospital and we had a policy of a point system we used before calling in the doc. If a woman presented to the ER under 20 wks, they stayed there and were processed there. If over 20 wks, we go...

Don't forget that you had to check w/ at least 3 different light bulb manufacturers to get the best price for the bulb, then present as a capital expense to the board for approval as a necessary item. Then do a QA on the bulb's performance in compari...

Kristi, WOW, Sounds like HELL to me!!Both at work and at home. PLEASE document this,file a report, insist on talking w/ your manager. Don't let it slide. Stay angry and let them know how unsafe you were. It's nights like that that somehow we always p...

dear Mattsmom, I have seen it both ways, depending on the size of the unit. Larger hospitals will have seperate L/D staff. Post Part will too as well as nursery. I have worked both. I kind of liked doing all areas, a nice change, but I always loved L...

During OR rotation, watching a TURP (Trans Urethral Prostatectomy) through the scope. I innocently asked the Surgeon "Where is the Prostate in women?" He just about died laughing and I was sooo embarrased, I'll never forget that day.

Oh my God, 23 out of 25. Hey what's the point of getting older if you don't get the chance to reminice. Does anyone remember making rings out of glass soda bottles. You'd scrape the lips of 2 bottles together until they fell off, took hours!! then yo...

My partner and I are also thinking of moving to the Denton area, her family is there. Anyone know of jobs in the Denton, Dallas, Forth Worth area in Family Planning, STD's or L/D??? We have an opportunity to live rent free. It would be a great way to...

In a Family Plannng clinic, nurse getting frustrated w/ pt.'s lack of understanding the workings of a diaphragm. " Just put it in every night before you go to bed and take it out in the morning" Pt. agreeable to this. A few months later, she's back a...

Dear Mattsmom, When I did L/D we were cross trained, in fact I was most often on L/D because I had a lot of exp there. Big city hosp. sometimes have their own staff for each unit and don't cross train, I've also done that. In the end it's a good thin...

MotherBabyRN, had a similar incident w/ pitocin. Went to pharmacy on eve's to pick it up Got back to the floor and in putting away the stock noticed instead of pit, I think it was atropine w/ same green top.( it was 3yrs. ago) Pharmacy was notified ...

Thanks for the info on Chemp pt.s on PP, But a note on the Heparin drip pt.'s, they were not post partum moms...I could see if they were and would not want to seperate mom and babe, but these were overflow med/surg pt.'s. I didn't feel safe with them...

To Shay, I salute you!!! Couldn't have said it better myself. I have had my share of "Bradley Method" husbands who spoke for their wives and wouldn't budge from their "plan" even in the face of their baby's death! So frustrating, after a while you do...

Anyone ever hear of heparin drips on Post partum??? That 's the point when I quit. 1 RN w/ and aide or LPN w/ 10-14 post partums, post-ops, antepart's, surgical hyst.'s etc...Oh but we did get a 20 min inservice! That was also the same time they star...

Worked w/ an OB/GYN doc who would be on call at the local bar and we would call him there when his pt.'s were pushing. He would warn you not to call him too soon or he'd murder you! He'd waltz in just in time to catch. Even though he was reported sev...

I worked in Boston at the STD clinic and I got a guy in with the worst case of smegma I had ever seen. He wasn't circumcised and he had so much crap under the foreskin it had caused a serious excoriation of the penis head. The freaky part was he said...

TRN What about clinic nursing? There's many jobs available in all different areas, Geriatrics, OB/GYN, Peds, Family Practice etc... Sure you won't make the money, but they are usually M-F 9-5 jobs. Not all nursing is done at the bedside. These are o...

My partner is currently having Intrauterine Insemination procedures w/ donated anonymous sperm and if she gets preggers I plan on adopting the child as well so I can also be legal guardian. We plan on speaking to a lawyer soon about this. I can keep ...

About 1989 I was working in L/D in an old condemmed building of a major city hospital. New unit was under construction. Our "labor suite" consisted of one large gray cold room lined from wall to wall w/ about 10 stretchers seperated by a curtain only...