mamacat

Hello to all. I have been working primarily as a L&D for the last two years at a level two hospital and for the last four months I have been working mother-baby part time. I am truly a L&D nurse first choice, but I am enjoying my work as well in mother baby. I recently went to a level one hospital in another town and was going to accept a job on a casual call position, but I am not sure that I feel safe. I am not sure what the staffing standards are compared to the level two hospital that I work at now. For example when I work L&D at the level two there are three nurses and a tech on duty regardless of the patient load. At the level one hospital it is the tech and the nurse with a nurse on call thirty minutes away. Also no anesthesia in house at level one. At the level one hospital there is no nursery and the nurse labors, delivers and recovers mom and baby. I am not used to doing all three areas and when I told the nurse manager at the level one hospital my concerns she said you have experience and you will do fine. When I asked questions or made comments about my concerns to some of the staff they attempted to say things like, "you'll get it or your just spoiled at that level two hospital- this coming from techs (no offense to techs I was a tech for twelve years) Does anyone see my point of view or am I being paranoid. I don't want anyone getting hurt because I am the only person on shift and I don't make the right decision. The nurse manager says she has approached management about wanting two nurses on at all times and their response is this is a level one hospital, my response is it may be a level one hospital, but a level two or three patient could land on my door. Sorry my first post is so long. I would really appreciate any input thanks.