JenniferNRN

I am very curious as to what other hospital policies are on this subject and what your opinions as ob nurses are. our hospital is a rural one, doing about 150-200 births per month. I work nights on the weekend and we don't have an ob in house. many o...

aaaah, good ol' hands and knees. i love to put them in that position when they are "stuck". sometimes only takes a couple of contractions to bring that baby down. i had an unattended last weekend. typical g2p1 with a fast labor. came in complete,...

Thanks for all of the responses. I appreciate the input. I have learned that it is a little more common than I thought to take those under 20 weeks, and of course, our units are all so different as far as having a triage area or ante unit. I love how...

Which is exactly why I HATE Jello! Bleh!!! I have to agree with the majority here...mucous, spit, snot....all the worst. I have gagged repeatedly reading this thread! I work in labor and delivery and you can bring on all the blood, poop, placenta,...

We mix 5 Units in 500 D5LR and start at 1 mu/min. We double every 15 minutes for an hour, then go up 2mU per hour until max of 20 mU without further order, until ctx's are adequate and every 2-3. BP every 15 min until stable on a particular dose, t...

My first was 9#15oz (C-section for FTP after 3 day IOL) and second was 11#13oz (repeat C-section). I thought I was having twins and they missed it! Was very uncomfortable and couldn't sleep from about the 7th month on. Blood sugars were fine.

Hello. It has been almost 8 years since I had my son at Camp Pendleton Naval Hospital in California, but I will try to tell you what I can. Pros: I know they had advanced technology at the time and I have heard from several people that military hospi...

Yes, we too have many pt's that show up to have the baby because, "Today is my due date" or because, "There was pink mucus on the tissue when I wiped". Countless pt's of this type. Now if we can only get the docs to educate them in the office....

Congratulations! :balloons: I too started in L&D right after graduation almost 3 years ago, and I would never want to be anywhere else. I would have to reiterate that you ask a lot of questions of many different nurses. Each nurse has something...

Hmmm, I can't think of the name of our catheters , but I know that once you are in, you advance the catheter as you pull back until the needle completely retracts and clicks. I am pretty sure ours is the ProtectIV from J&J also. If your device ...

That's where my first son was born in 1996! :) I thought it was interesting that we had that in common. Things were MUCH different for my induction than for yours! :chuckle:

I recently received my AWHONN standards and guidelines book, 5th edition, so here is what it says (wish we would staff accordingly!) : Nurse to pt ratio/Care provided Intrapartum 1:2 pts in labor 1:1 ...

Ditto to above but I'd like to add... There are many quick decisions to make when things are moving very fast or going bad in a hurry and in many units, nurses are the ones doing all of the exams and trying to figure out when to call the doc for deli...

Hello! When I was a student, we had to choose in our final semester what area we wanted to do our management (of a team of pts) rotation in and a couple of us chose OB. The faculty didn't originally offer that area as a choice, but some of us knew t...

I wonder if you all have been getting strange situations this past weekend as we have. From Friday to Sunday we had 2 Mag pts at once, a DIC in which the baby was lost (29 weeker) and mother needed multiple units of blood, a bag and mask resus. on a ...

Hi! I went to work in L&D right after graduation from an ADN program last summer. They were very much in need of help and I think many hospitals have waived requiring previous nursing experience because of the shortage. There is a lot to know a...

And is she still a bit rebellious to this day? :wink2:

Hard days on your spirit huh? Hope it gets better soon.

That is so true...had my first (knock on wood) bag and mask resus. this weekend along with a NICU nurse and I was practically pushing the OB out of the way and instructing her because she wasn't getting a tight seal on the mask. She was ordering oth...

We do usually 250-300 monthly. I don't know where our numbers are right now, but we have definitely been busier lately. This weekend was awful...all night a census of 10-14 pts in L&D with 5 nurses. Friday and Saturday both the same way. Ugh....

Love to hear that things are the same all over. I have no problems telling visitors it's time to go. I don't care how anyone feels about me....and I'm sure they are saying some choice words when I leave the room! Must be pt advocate! By the way,...

I work with a woman whose 21 year old daughter is named Aja. I thought it was one of a kind...guess not! I know of someone who was named Margarita Vaca...sounds like her parents had a few to drink when she was conceived, huh?

One of our docs was telling us about it last year. I think he went to a seminar on it or something, but he spoke very highly of it, and suggested we get it out here. I would love to hear your opinion of it.

If you really have your heart set on babies only, is there a children's hospital in your area? Just a thought. :)

My most memorable moments... First semester, my instructor came in and was conversing with my patient (who was 80+ yrs and somewhat confused) and me and we were talking about religion. My pt said something about a hymn and my instructor began to sin...