I'm well aware of that...I'm sure I never mentioned not cleaning the patient.I guess we just do things differently here. Here we leave everything in, whether or not they're getting an autopsy. I was...
As an LPN I taught medical assisting. They can also teach CNA classes in many places. As far as childbirth and breastfeeding classes, I'd recommend you get certified in that area 1st-try alace.org....
Mnay people want a CNM over a ob/gyn because they don't feel that they need to see a surgeon for their healthy, normal pregnancy. Midwives tend to be more patient, more open to natural remedies, more...
Mine shut off at 75, and I'm about to celebrate my one year anniversary at my current hospital. Employed as an RN, of course. 75 is great, unless it's terrible. Make sense? You either did very...
Everywhere I've worked, it was the LPNs, if not the RNs who perform post mortem care. Other than stripping and cleaning the beds afterwards (which can get...um, messy). Also if the Pt is very large...
I'd have a MAJOR problem with any ob/gyn's office (medical assistant, nursing staff, MD/CNM/NP, or just a general office policy) that would not allow my SO to be with despite my wishes. One of the...
They might ask: Why do you want to get into PP nursing? Have you taken any CEUs, classes, attended seminars, etc Re: Maternal/Child Health? Do you have any cross training (post partum doula, lactation...
There is a very big difference between driving a car and moving a couch. I can see why there would be no heavy lifting or strenuous activities, but sitting in a car, turing a steering wheel? I can't...
I'd just like to add that as a relatively new nurse, I def. think that there are nurses who eat their young. Why, I'm not sure, but I've never confused them with a nurse who genuinely wanted to teach...
Yep, know-it-all new nurses bug me. When I try to show them something (ie: "They're going to extubate Mr. Smith-why don't you go assist?" or "Mrs. Jenkins is going to have a c/s and btl, why not...
Wasn't this the "nicer", more upper middle class hospital where you wouldn't have had to deal with all those undesireable Pts? Shame to hear you didn't make it into their
Having seen too many accretas lately on multip C/Sers, I'm not sure it's a bad thing that docs are trying to limit them. Forcing someone to labor for 3 days with an IUFD? That's
Honestly, aside from potential discomfort and effects of pain meds, there's no real reason an NSVD should have to wait a certain number of days or weeks to drive. 2 weeks, IMO is excessive--where's...
I agree with mercy and smiling. Please please please keep in mind that adoption "back in the day" was not always a voluntary thing, a selfless act. The young mother was often lied to, tricked,...
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It's easier to go by weeks when you're talking with someone who knows about pregnancy (ie in the medical field, self educated, or took childbirth classes). I remember when I was pregnant and a...
Clinicals should be held at the times and dates that they were posted as at registration barring some sort of very special circumstance (ie hospital decides to change time, natural disaster,...
Surg tech would help you be *near* the babies and mothers, but you're doing things like passing suture materials, counting out sponges and accounting for all instruments, etc. No baby...
Wow, that's pretty sucky. I usually play dumb while calling them out with situations like that. Re: The gay thing, I might have said "Really, you think that's gay? Like he'd try to have sex with...
I'd also highly advocate for having a good doula--someone who knows diff. positions, massages, aromatherapy, breathing, etc. I think that can make all the difference in the world. Also re: not hurting...