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How do you give shift to shift report? How many patients will you have? I too work until 0730 in labor/delivery. Most days, we leave by 0730, but, if someone comes in active labor at 0650, it's our responsiblity to admit them. We use computer cha...

I remember the show. It was a food show (go figure) on PBS. The placenta was fried up and eaten on crackers. In England. Mine: I had a bald father rub the placenta on his head for 1/2hr, supposedly to grow back hair. All it did was make him look ...

:nuke: Have to agree that I don't see much difference in being Magnet or not. Except for the public relations end of it. Most of the preparation for obtaining magnet status seems to be paperwork, committees.... not in actually improving bedside car...

450 bed hospital, 30 bed LDRP, we do our own C/S and recovery which is why we have to have ACLS certification. (They say we legally have to have same skills as our main OR staff!) :nuke:

We do the full blown ACLS course every 2 years here. It's really scary to imagine having to use that stuff. We're lumped into the program with RNs from ICU/OR/ telemetry. It's like a foreign language. Except for some of the drugs (mag, epinephrin...

Unfortunately, when patients here the words "you're complete" they think they have to start pushing, urge or not. If they have an effective epidural, no urge, and are -3/-2, sometimes I tell a little white lie ans say they're an anterior lip. And e...

Started out as an office nurse: got Christmas bonus(usually about $500.00) nice dinner at a restaurant for staff/family. Then went to hospital nursing (3rd shift) We see the empty tins of popcorn/cookies, the leftover Olive Garden lunches from the d...

Get out there and interview! Gone are the days that the only way to get into OB is if nurses retired or died! Depending on the hospital, and nursing shortage, there should be positions open. In my hospital we currently have new grads and transfers...

If you plan on diving straight into L&D, just remember, it's not only about giving birth. In today's society the "healthy" pregnant woman is a rarity. Most moms have other conditions that have to be attended to, hypertension, diabetes, cardiac,...

Unless you're 80 years old, you can do this. I would encourage you while taking these pre-courses, to maybe get some sort of job in a hospital/nursing home. It might give you an idea of what it's all about. Remember, nursing is a 24hr/7day job, no...

I'm partial to OB. But I have a Bachelors in Psych too. It truly comes in handy. Especially these days. Not a day goes by that we don't have either a unwed teen mother, or someone who has psychiatric problems (usually mild). For some reason, Rns...

I'm with you SmilingEyes. I'm glad to see someone else out there believes in "laboring down". This is what I learned a long time ago (when dinosaurs roamed the earth). But where I work now, it's complete - push NOW, can't feel the "spot" 0 too bad...

Congrats! What a feeling (both scary as all get out and exhilarating) But, forget the docs. Sometimes you just have to say, stop the panting and push! Why prolong moms pain? Before we had our "doc in the box" (the MD who spends the night with us),...

We have 1 LC on staff, she is not an RN. She doesn't have the best relationship with the staff RNs. Not sure if this is because she isn't a nurse or because all she sees is the "boob-mouth" connection, can't see the whole pix of mom's physical/ment...

I'm usually charge RN on a midnight shift w/lots of "newer" nurses. I try to attend most births (mainly for support/another pair of hands/gopher). I try to mimic what their primary nurse is doing. The only time I try to intervene, is if I see that...

Couldn't agree with you more. I've been NRP certified for about 10 years. Every delivery I attend, I have that thought in the back of my mind, what would I do? Not that I want to have to go through class more often than q2years, but I sort of wish...

Stand up for yourself. Been doing OB for about 20 years. Talk to your manager TODAY! Try to get one preceptor, follow her schedule. Talk to her. IF she's a good teacher (which every preceptor should be) make her explain, explain, explain. Talk ...

We do about 200 births a month. We have a "holding" nursery, open from 11pm - 7am. Usually used by bottle feeding moms. Some breastfeeding moms use it, we bring junior out when he's hungry (his schedule, not ours). Kid eats, returns to nursery... T...

Be prepared! This unfortunately is part of the deal of working OB. At least once a month we have mock drills on different situations, post partum hemorrhage, infant abduction, seizures, prolapsed cords.... Hopefully, you work in a unit where everyo...

I know we all didn't go into nursing for thank you cards, I think it started when patients became clients and hospitals became "hotels". I go home knowing I did the best job I could do, kept my patients safe... But it is nice to be recognized for i...

Been there, done that. Had a male student (whose father was an MD) with a learning disability. He couldn't read well, so all books were put on tape, his tests were oral exams (he couldn't write very well either). Didn't seem very fair, considering ...

OLD OB RN: remember when: 1. C/S, in bed for 2weeks and then sent home 2. Vag deliveries in bed for 7 days. 3. Babies were only brought out to mom for feedings, then whisked back to the nursery to be cared for. 4. Absolutely, no children al...

Been an OB nurse for almost 20years. You are in the right as far as I'm concerned. There really is no reason for that infant to be in the morgue, it's really hard on the parents to imagine that their child is cold/alone.... We keep our fetal demise...

Nothing for thanksgiving. But after we attend a mandatory 1hour forum (where the big whigs all pat themselves on the back for the great job they've done this past year) we get a $15.00 certificate to a local grocery store. Unfortunately, my spouse ...

I have to believe that we leave because you can't "turn off" being a nurse. It's a 24/7 job, whether you're being paid or not. YOu mentally take your work home with you, and sometimes physically (On you uniform). It's also what you make of it. If yo...