meghan

About half of our patients have IVs. Of that, maybe half of them have pit. We don't open up the pit, because most of the time there isn't any to open. PPH is treated most of the time with rectal misoprostol, which works, IME, better and faster than pit. But honestly, we don't see much PPH. So what's up with all this prophylactic pit use anyway?

I worked there as a nurse tech a few years ago (First Hill campus). It was okay, though in retrospect they gave the NTs WAY too much autonomy considering that I had just finished my first year. Also, Swedish just had an absolutely hideous contract renegotiation fiasco. Management did NOT come across as supportive of staff.