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Has anyone had a patient want to feed their baby UNPASTEURIZED GOAT MILK??? We had one just recently that brought this to the hospital in a cooler and kept it in her room and was feeding it to her baby. She is also pumping and will mix it with the g...

Check your orders also-some doctors specifically state NO FUNDAL CHECKS..JUST FYI

Is anyone out there using GE Centricity EMR (Electronic Medical Record) Charting? Just wondering how it is working for your specific department and what changes has your department/hospital made to make it specifically fit your nursing area? We went...

I have a teaching degree in Elementary/Middle and taught some too and now I am on Mother/Baby and LOVE IT. You just work your way through Med/Surg in nursing school..everyone does. I worked Med/Surg for a year after graduation and learned and maste...

Unless you have diabetes you have no idea what it is like. You can be told this, that and something else but IT IS HARD. Generally speaking the type 2's in the MAJORITY of circumstances are in the overweight to obese category. In my opinion it is ...

I teach a childbirth class/work postpartum and one of my students has had prolo therapy in her lower back. I have never heard of it and she was wondering if she could have an epidural. I believe her therapy was in the lumbar area. Prolotherapy fo...

My mother has been a dialysis nurse for over 15 years. She is an LPN. Anyway, dialysis is a very hard and demanding job. You are constantly on your feet and stay bent over a lot helping patients. You are required to lift/carry 50 plus pounds of j...

I put a year in med/surg with often 7 pts a shift. Things get hectic I know. Just hang in there...you are so new. If this is not your type of nursing--learn EVERYTHING you can, do the best you can and when you go home don't worry about it. Your "...

i am 36 years old and have not been in nursing that long. when i was in orientation there was an rn that became a nurse in her late 40's that was 74 years old..yes 74 years and she could work circles around me. i never thought she was day over 40. ...

We are a busy mother baby unit and sometimes we have 20 plus ADMISSIONS and the same discharges EVERYDAY!!!! Sometimes I get 2 admits and 2-3 discharges...just goes with the job. Our charge nurse tries to look at acuity first and then the admits ar...

our policy is a minimum of 1 hour in recovery following a vaginal delivery. some nurses hang onto their patients forever and the faster ones drop off and get a new one-totally not fair. some nurses hang onto their patients as long as they can only ...

i wouldn't confront these people but you are right..it is child abuse.. can you imagine what it must be like in a car with the windows rolled up and someone sucking on cigarette after cigarette with these poor helpless souls strapped in the car with ...

i started a nursing program in 1996 and quit because of some of the same things you describe. i did a clinical rotation at a va hospital in virginia and saw how some of the staff treated our veterans and decided that there was no way in hell that i ...

Our tests were posted by pin numbers we created and so occasionally, early in our program, my best friend would check mine for me if they were posted after I left. I was the top student until the very last semester out of a class of 150, worked FULL...

if you have a year and don't want to sit idle i vote for pursuing the surgical tech program. in areas such as labor/deliver the nurse manager in our hospital requires scrub experience due to increase rate of c/s and if the rn is already experienced ...

Almost ALL my books were the older edition. If the class was using edition 8 I had edition 7. IT NEVER MADE A DIFFERENCE. Our Med/Surg books were almost identical except for a few pictures and maybe a different consulting nurse or doctor here and ...

i did my internship in l&d and liked it but i've found i love mother/baby way more. my best friend did her internship in l&d and got a job right out of nursing school worked a year and left. she left because the enormous responsibility and l...

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My ratio was usually 7:1 Our CNA on our floor was 11:1 or 10:1 (if she is lucky she will get the shorter hall!) NO MED NURSE Hopefully our secretary was there! I didn't "hate" my job but I had way too many patients and it wasn't safe. I learned a lo...

that's your mom? that's your dad? that's your family? poor little baby! ok reality..i :redbeathe my job 100%..sometimes though i really wonder about the families who are "allowed" to have kids and are "allowed" to leave with them!! my real 3 word...

You could also look into volunteering with La Leche League or a support group for breastfeeding moms. Sometimes having a a little background like this may help you gain employment after nursing school-especially in hard to get areas like mother/baby...

Oh the stuff as nurses we feel we must "keep under wraps"... I am teaching childbirth classes. Most moms are about 2 months or closer to delivery. Several of my moms have doctors that seem to specialize in "primary elective C/S." These doctors are...

"it's a shame that insurance companies haven't caught on to the fact that homebirths save them thousands of dollars per birth and reduce charges for unnecessary interventions. " i have nothing against a home birth/birth center delivery..nothing at al...

My oldest daughter who is 7 was treated for scabies. No "special light" was used to look for mites, no scrapings, no ink test..nothing. OK maybe the doctor knew immediately what it was. Gave her medication Elimite to treat it..OK..I have a 4 year ...

I'm a relatively a new nurse, grad of May 2006, and I love my job on Mother/Baby. I am part time. I also teach Expectant Parenting Classes (Childbirth) and a program for low income expectant moms that teaches childbirth, infant care, safety, etc. ...