mother/babyRN

mother/babyRN RN

cardiac, diabetes, OB/GYN

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  1. As an OB nurse, do you feel like your med/surg experience will go to waste?

    mother/babyRN replied to teresab_2000's topic in Ob/Gyn

    Hey there OBNurse Heather, I see YOU had nursery duty

  2. What is your net take home pay every two weeks?

    mother/babyRN replied to JMP's topic in General Nursing

    nights at 32 dollars an hour with differential and occasional charge pay...Thats after 20 years or so in one place. STILL not nearly enough for what I (we) have to do or the skills we have. Best thing...

  3. Hiding Money from Physicians

    mother/babyRN replied to kmchugh's topic in Nursing Humor

    Fergus, You beat me too it...Good

  4. As an OB nurse, do you feel like your med/surg experience will go to waste?

    mother/babyRN replied to teresab_2000's topic in Ob/Gyn

    Come work with us too! Last night I was assigned to the nursery (with 9 babies on my own, I might add since we had to float someone inappropirately), when, during a routine assessment, I noted an AP...

  5. As an OB nurse, do you feel like your med/surg experience will go to waste?

    mother/babyRN replied to teresab_2000's topic in Ob/Gyn

    We do every bit as much in the way of treatment and assessment in OB as in med surg.. The only difference is with most of our patients, there is a baby involved. However, cardiac, diabetic, drug...

  6. Help on Med Surg from OB dept.

    mother/babyRN replied to Ekaye's topic in Patient Safety Issues

    Saying no to floating anywhere in the facility earns a threat of termination....Besides, although I would prefer to remain on my unit (as I am certain the med/surg nurses would), I am happy to be...

  7. Caring for the rich and famous

    mother/babyRN replied to Kikumaru's topic in General Nursing

    I recently inherited a local television news anchor as my patient on the night shift in labor and delivery...Suffice it to say she screamed as loudly and appropriately as anyone else.....Can't believe...

  8. Help on Med Surg from OB dept.

    mother/babyRN replied to Ekaye's topic in Patient Safety Issues

    Gosh, I would LOVE to work in a hospital where the OB department could refuse to inappropriately float to other areas and be the float unit of the hospital...In our facility we are better trained than...

  9. Mother and baby nursing

    mother/babyRN replied to kychung's topic in General Nursing

    Caldescene powder worked like a charm, as did lotrimin fungal cream, applied

  10. Nurses and their sense of humour

    mother/babyRN replied to Patience911's topic in General Nursing

    If you can't laugh you will cry...Everyone is different, and after awhile of working with each other, you know each other well enough to say AND not say things..I think being too analytical detracts...

  11. Pot Smoking and Nursing

    mother/babyRN replied to MrsNurseCA's topic in General Nursing

    geeez.....

  12. What Freaks You Out?

    mother/babyRN replied to JennieBSN's topic in General Nursing

    Well, I have to say, other than the little old lady with Ca whose nose fell off in front of me, beyond the dentures and mucus thing, it does me not good when a filthy patient arrives in labor, opens...

  13. Pot Smoking and Nursing

    mother/babyRN replied to MrsNurseCA's topic in General Nursing

    People who act that way in school usually, in time, tend to be "weeded" out, chastized or otherwise dealt with at some point...I am at least as much and probably MORE concerned about impaired docs,...

  14. Pot Smoking and Nursing

    mother/babyRN replied to MrsNurseCA's topic in General Nursing

    I think there is quite a bit of "middle ground"...Probably all we can hope for is to at least meet on some common ground and agree to disagree...Nurses should not HAVE to be considered above everyone...

  15. Pot Smoking and Nursing

    mother/babyRN replied to MrsNurseCA's topic in General Nursing

    For goodness sakes, in some states SEX in any other position than missionary, is illegal. Sex of the oral variety is definitely a no no in many statutes...Holy cow! There MUST be something left to...

  16. Just Go Pee!

    mother/babyRN replied to Huganurse's topic in General Nursing

    Sooner or later those transitional epithelial cells just give out...It is not always a time management problem, but if you are in the middle of a csection, code or what have you, when the urge...

  17. Pot Smoking and Nursing

    mother/babyRN replied to MrsNurseCA's topic in General Nursing

    You know, I haven't ever had any inclination to try pot BUT, should I be chastised for having a drink of wine on my day off...What you do when you aren't working should be your business, as long as it...

  18. Are you ashamed of being a nurse?

    mother/babyRN replied to Mijourney's topic in Nursing Career

    I, like most of you, am also proud to be a nurse. I am not proud of the way many nurses treat others, or the way newer nurses are taught to treat other nurses, such as LPNs or diploma nurses, as...

  19. NUK Nipples

    mother/babyRN replied to smbluthing's topic in NICU, Neonatal

    I always used Nuk for my own kids once they weren't breast feeding, but our hospital would NEVER spring for the expense. Our regular cheapo ones do just as good a job and we are supposed to cup feed...

  20. Help with SVE's

    mother/babyRN replied to ShannonB25's topic in Ob/Gyn

    Angel baby, I had NO idea! (really)... And all this time I have been using the turtle neck example.....Thanks for the info!More material garninshed from you to add to my delivery routine!

  21. Cytotec

    mother/babyRN replied to Brookesmom's topic in Ob/Gyn

    We have used cytotec for several years now, both orally and lady partslly. At first, I protested it, only because the person who insisted we give it was basing administration on some article from the...

  22. Help with SVE's

    mother/babyRN replied to ShannonB25's topic in Ob/Gyn

    We have a lot of posterior patients, but the ones that get me are the people with a tunnel cervix in which the inner and outer os might be different. Also, I cannot say I have ever felt the spines,...

  23. Funny things patients say !

    mother/babyRN replied to TAM's topic in Nursing Humor

    I worked in a progressive care unit too (step down telemetry) and was doing rounds when I came to an elderly lady who seemed fine, UNTIL I asked what had brought her in.."I was minding my own business...

  24. Has anyone been pregnant as a L&D nurse?

    mother/babyRN replied to teresab_2000's topic in Ob/Gyn

    I had good experiences with my last 3 pregnancies ( other than getting sick later on), as far as working. I felt more comfortable being there if I either went in to labor or had difficulty. I knew my...

  25. OB patient...

    mother/babyRN replied to timonrn's topic in Ob/Gyn

    It is sad, and easy to get angry, but I find that the majority of them do care....Sadly, they say women on heroin will at least attempt to buy food and things for the baby..Women on cocaine will sell...