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  1. Hep C+ mom, bloody amniotic fluid, chances for baby?

    Babies don't have open cuts, but they "breathe" the amniotic fluid into their lungs, they swallow it, it's touching the mucus membranes of their eyes and nose. I just hope the baby will be OK. One of...
  2. I got a month orientation at the hospital. Our CNA's get more orientation than three days. If I were you, I would insist on more days. It's just not safe. A friend of mine was a new nurse in LTC...
  3. car seat challenge/test

    The 90-120 min thing is new. Our car seat techs just a few weeks ago went to a siminar stating it has changed, so we just changed our
  4. Had a young man, frequent flyer for pain control issues. He truly was in pain but always wanted more pain med than was ordered. One time he broke into the sharps container and was sucking all the...
  5. Funny things patients say !

    After my son was born, for awhile I would "toot" out the urethra. I guess the birth stretched open the urethra. If I would move one way, a bit of air would get up there, then I would move another way...
  6. L&D nurses - can you look at my birth plan?

    I agree with the other poster about discussing all this in detail with your doctor (or midwife.) They are the ones who decide a lot of this. And you need to be able to trust them if they say you need...
  7. Baby Catcher - Brilliant book

    LOVED
  8. Confused on how to start a career in OB

    In L&D most pts are young and healthy, but you get a few sick ones. We had one with an NG d/t GI issues, and some of the L&D nurses had never worked with one and were quite intimidated. I had...
  9. Should I tattle?

    There is a nurse, "Janet", who worked at my hospital for years, was a traveler for awhile and now has been rehired and is working as a charge nurse. I floated to her unit last Friday and had a...
  10. Orillia nurse found responsible in $10million suit

    In my experience, even if twins are both head down, when the first is born, the second quite often flips to be breech. At my hospital, standard procedure for a twin mom is to get an epidural (turning...
  11. Husbands!

    Birth has been a "women only" event in many cultures throughout history. Personally, if a man didn't want to be there because it's against his culture, or he thought he couldn't handle it, I wouldn't...
  12. Now this is funny!

    That was
  13. Why bolus with a high BP?

    My husband woke up one night feeling a fluttering heart. His HR was 180. Our daughter took him to ER. I was at work, and when I arrived in ER, they were ready to give him adenosine. His BP was...
  14. EMLA Cream with Circs

    I wonder if the doctor would let someone cut on his winky if he only had sweatease for
  15. Why Many nurses are No-Codes

    My father-in-law was 68 and in the ER for chest pain when he coded. They defibrillated him twice and got him back. He ended up with his second CABG, so had a few miserable months. That was 20 years...
  16. The positive side of nursing...PLEASE!!!

    If you don't like your job, there are LOTS of other choices. Nursing is so varied, med-surg, L&D, LTC, clinics, home health, schools, military, teaching, administration, legal or insurance...
  17. I discovered once that men can be "innies" instead of "outies." I had one man with so much scrotal edema and so little penile substance, I couldn't find an opening. Neither could the other nurse on my...
  18. How long in bed for post C/S mothers?

    We get them up as soon as they are ready. No set time. 4 hours is probably the soonest. I work evenings, and I tell them that sometime on my shift they need to try to get up. If all they can do is...
  19. Insulin given by nursing assistant?

    In adult foster homes, whoever runs the homes can check sugars give insulin. They don't have to be medical people. I don't know about your program. If your diabetic is developmentally delayed to the...
  20. You'll be a better nurse if you're a CNA first. It's embarrassing to be a nurse and the CNA's have to show you how to change a pt. It also helps you tremendously in clinicals, especially if you can be...
  21. Head Lice

    Between my two daughters and my foster kids, I have unfortunately had a lot of experience with lice. I finally started collecting the bugs when I could find them and trying different things directly...
  22. Had a mom come in with decreased fetal movement. Hooked her up to monitor the fetal heart tones. They were 160 with minimal to absent variability with a couple lates. The doctor waited for hours...
  23. i thank all of you for your
  24. And the beat goes on . . .

    My community has a lot of layoffs in the logging industry. As part of their layoff plan, loggers can get college paid for. I had two big burly men in my nursing class. Both turned out to be great...
  25. Obese Women and Anesthesia..

    One important reason the doctors are looking into anesthesia rather than a natural birth is that most twins end up being C/S. At our hospital, if they are planned to be lady partsl births, we deliver...