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  1. Young, Unfit, Drug Addicted, etc. Mothers

    shay replied to alphafe's topic in Ob/Gyn

    Exactly. Bravo! Give a young mother your time and patience, tell her she's doing a good job, give her the tools to parent her child...young mothers can be amazing. I agree, I have taken care of...

  2. Young, Unfit, Drug Addicted, etc. Mothers

    shay replied to alphafe's topic in Ob/Gyn

    Also, just something to think about. These women are probably used to nurses and doctors treating them like they're "unfit," i.e., they are curt and rude to them and make it clear with their body...

  3. Young, Unfit, Drug Addicted, etc. Mothers

    shay replied to alphafe's topic in Ob/Gyn

    LOL I pray a lot. When I know I'm going to get a really difficult assignment, I say a quick prayer for God to give me the strength and grace to be a good nurse for this woman and to give her the...

  4. Young, Unfit, Drug Addicted, etc. Mothers

    shay replied to alphafe's topic in Ob/Gyn

    The way I always have approached it is that it is not my job to sit in judgement of these women. I am their nurse, not their social worker. I know that sounds idyllic and simplistic, but it's...

  5. Preterm Labor question

    shay replied to LizzyL&DRN's topic in Ob/Gyn

    They don't know. There are so many studies right now being conducted in regards to PTL for this very reason. It's distressing, I see it all the time, and it frustrates me so when my pt. asks me "why...

  6. Bush says limiting lawsuits will save healthcare

    shay replied to Katmae RN's topic in General Nursing

    Our consents for OB are a mile long. And at the NICU where I used to work, they have a general NICU consent with every procedure on it, and it's literally PAGES long. Scary. My patients have to...

  7. Nursing Wearing Sandals To Work?????eeeeeeeekkkkk!!!

    shay replied to proudmommielpn's topic in General Nursing

    Beyond

  8. Warning.....Visitor Vent!

    shay replied to bam_bam's topic in General Nursing

    Not at my hospital. We're locked down like fort knox. I love my

  9. Bush says limiting lawsuits will save healthcare

    shay replied to Katmae RN's topic in General Nursing

    Precisely. I couldn't agree more. Doctors need to judge doctors in medical malpractice cases, IMO. They understand the logistics and medical limits. The lay public, whether they believe it or not,...

  10. Bush says limiting lawsuits will save healthcare

    shay replied to Katmae RN's topic in General Nursing

    Because with caps on p&s, the insurers' risk goes down, thus their premiums can gow down. Yes, the awards will still be huge, but not *as* huge. Again, I don't think it will be a silver bullet....

  11. Bush says limiting lawsuits will save healthcare

    shay replied to Katmae RN's topic in General Nursing

    Fergus, I have worked NICU too. I know how expensive it is. And I am not saying the doc is always right. There have been times when I wanted to walk up to a pt. after a delivery and say, "here's a...

  12. Bush says limiting lawsuits will save healthcare

    shay replied to Katmae RN's topic in General Nursing

    Well, I have seen quite a few lawsuits in my area....fortunately (knock on wood), none involving me personally. About 1/2 of them are complete and total b.s.. And while I don't think tort reform is...

  13. Overdue baby testing?

    shay replied to burger914's topic in Ob/Gyn

    And remember, the mucous plug regenerates and you can actually "lose" it more than once. This is what I tell pts. when I send them home after a false alarm....when your husband is scared to talk to...

  14. Bush says limiting lawsuits will save healthcare

    shay replied to Katmae RN's topic in General Nursing

    Well, I work OB, and I agree w/Bush. Working in the number one specialty for litigation kinda does that to you...... When Bush said during one of the debates that OB's are being forced to practice...

  15. Warning.....Visitor Vent!

    shay replied to bam_bam's topic in General Nursing

    What kills me is when the unit is full (I work L&D), and some random visitor comes to the nurses' station and says, "she needs some ice/painmeds/blanket/whatever." I always look at them and say,...

  16. meds during pregnancy??

    shay replied to nursechick182's topic in General Nursing

    Anybody who gives you the "you are so stupid" lecture for asking a question about the safety of giving a drug to a pregnant woman, save something like a prenatal vitamin, needs to be smacked in the...

  17. Overdue baby testing?

    shay replied to burger914's topic in Ob/Gyn

    Hear, hear!!! *clapping* I can't tell you how many times I've had a pt. show up and her chief complaint was "it's my due date." Um, okaaaaaaaaaaaaay....might wanna send your baby a memo.

  18. meds during pregnancy??

    shay replied to nursechick182's topic in General Nursing

    We give out phenergan on L&D and antepartum like kool-aid. Between our hyperemesis patients, kidney stone patients, and pukers in labor, we go through some phenergan.

  19. your opinion re: flu shot

    shay posted a topic in Pediatric

    I would like to hear your opinions. I am debating whether or not to accept the flu shot for my infant son. He is 9 months old, caucasian. Was born full term, no complications, is still...

  20. your opinion re: flu shot

    shay replied to shay's topic in Pediatric

    Thanks! I thought about my post about an hour after I posted it, and realized I was sort of implying RSV protection from the flu shot....ooops...I plead mommy brain. :chuckle I know the flu shot...

  21. cheapest place to get a littman (other than ebay)?

    shay posted a topic in General Nursing

    Okee dokee. Getting my sis a littman for xmas. I bought my littman 10 years ago, and that was at a nursing supply store, so I have NO idea where the best prices are. I have of course looked on...

  22. Good future L & D nurse?

    shay replied to cookie78's topic in Ob/Gyn

    One more suggestion....you or one of your classmates could "accidentally" mention allnurses when she's within earshot. Maybe she'll come here, naturally go straight to the OB forum, and recognize...

  23. Good future L & D nurse?

    shay replied to cookie78's topic in Ob/Gyn

    My skin was just CRAWLING reading your OP and Jolie's post about the hh nurse from hell. Yick. The others are correct, every graduating class has their nutjob. Said nutjob always has the loudest...

  24. Newborn blood tests

    shay replied to MedLJ801's topic in Ob/Gyn

    I'm pretty sure they also screen for sickle cell and thalassemia, don't

  25. Family history - irrelevant in modern obstetrics?

    shay replied to reprise's topic in Ob/Gyn

    OMG!!! Kids-r-fun, that's awful!! A DES daughter is nothing to take lightly. That's horrid. Family history is relevant. However, I don't know about you, but I'm a firm believer that how...