Dayray RN

I have MS, probobly have for 15-20 years but just found out last year. I had some bad issues with confusing the ceiling with the floor and not being able to get up off of the later. That got me diagnosed i have over the years had struggles with chang...

WOW!!!! I tried to read threw the posts after writeing mine I have to tip my hat to the Op for reamaining so positive and polite. I won't say anymore becuase i dont want to hyjack this post with a flame fest.

I have not read the many of the responses but can guess that they are variable and some valid others not. I have known several lesbian L&D nurses. Some were great and others not. One of them was one of the best nurses I have ever known and took a...

First let me say that I don't agree with a lot of the things he says in his "plan" I also think that you need to find a doctor that approaches birth plans as a discussion aimed at arriving at a plan that is both safe and addresses your desires and co...

Ive worked at both ends of it. i started at a small 50 delevry a month hopital, worked at the largest L&D in the state and now back to 100 deliverys a month place. The bigger the better for us. lots of different nurses, less time for them to talk...

Wow, I've been looking over the net the last few weeks and thought maybe All nurses would have something. well they do lol. I've been diagnoses with MS but ill see the MS specialist next week to begin treatment and I'm sure he will have allot of fun ...

Sure as a man you can work Ob and successfuly. pateints really dont care and the rare situations that it is a problem are easily fixed by changing assighnments. That being said i would recomemnd that if you have a love for another kind of nursing you...

yes, computer documentation has turned into the standard by which you are measured ie. bad at computer charting = bad nurse. when computer charting was being developed i looked forward to it but its entierly too cumbersome now, there is so much more ...

nurses who dont feel overwhielmed in L&D during orientataion (and for a while after) are scary. if you dont realize how scary it is you arent gettign it. the fact that you feel stressed shows that you are learning and that you do get how importan...

I only use stir-ups if the leg is just to numb and to heavy for me to help her with (very rare). I just think they look bad and hurt. I do have to question some of the other things they are saying about posistion and breathing. I have read things abo...

it a good manouver in the right situation but like many interventions is misused quit offten. I have mixed feelings on informed consent on this one, as if it is nessasary time is of the essence. If only people could know OBs well enough to know weath...

I think you should work in ob as a nurse. I also think you shoudl write down your feelings about how evil OBGYN is now so you can look at it after a few years actualy seeing how things are. I think you will be greatly surprized at how differnt things...

No one knows, the main theroies are adrenaline, hormones and lowering of core temp. take your pick I think its becuse there are just so many physical and emotional changes going on. its best just to distract them in conversation or movment and the s...

being a good nurse is about knowing how to be a good nurse not a good pateint. Having kids does not mean that they know what you are going threw (the expeance is different for everyone) haveing 10 babies doesnt teach you to talk someoen threw the pai...

yeah its a bunch of junk- I absolutly love labor nursing , the pateint, the a&P, the families , the commonsense nursing interventions, the nursing process as you decide what to do for your pateint. Saving lives by running in a bag of fluid, calmi...

They should have let her push (imo). Yes there is CPD and yes sometimes you just know a baby isnt going to fit - but sometimes you are wrong. In busy high intervention hospitals people tend to become very pasamistic. After you see allot of bad outcom...

Scalp stem is soemthing you can use when your on the fence about a strip. I use it on a strip with decreased or moderate veriability but no accels (neither reasureing or non-rasureing). If you get an accel its about as reassuring as when you get a sp...

I too have had to deal wit this in class: most of us started in Ob when pateints screamed for a few hours and then delivered , it took me some time to see epidurals as someing ok for normal healthy mom. 3 o4 years ago when ACOG chaged its position on...

This issue coems up occationaly and i have found that most of the peopel who bring them up are fairly reasonable if you acknowlage there right to make decistions for them selvs and for their body. "I explain we will not do anythign to you you dont fu...

hmm ok Gyn-ie-butt ie "are you gunna have to check in my Gyn-ie-butt?" pateint comes in (very scared) "my baby is having seizures!" - place her on the monitor and hear hic-ups "Is there going to be room for the baby to come out?" - in refernace to a ...

My pat response is, "I cant and wont do anythign to you that you tell me not to, all I ask is that you let my explain the reasons behind it before you make a desiction". I tell them the reasons and explain the downsides to the procedure and tell them...

I'm sorry ragingmomster, I didn't notice your post after mine. It kind of got lost in all the fighting - I tried to Pm you but your box is full. No, there isn't a rule about chaperones for male nurses. The rule for doctors is simply a guideline and ...

Yes it can work. 5 yrs in OB and still love it. I do have the occational breakdown and have been known to rant about discrimination but for the most part its wonderful. The only problems you run into are with other nurses, yes some patients will pref...

wow the people on this board have really changed. yes if you think your in labor or are scared you should go in or call your OB (whatever procedure they have told you to follow). If you find that you are always afraid or unsure what to expect, you ...

umm yeah mom makes the call but you sound like you may have issues. I'm not sure what has happend that has made you see conception of a baby as an assult on you. I think you should talk about stuff like this before you make a baby