mother/babyRN

mother/babyRN RN

cardiac, diabetes, OB/GYN

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  1. Mother Baby Couplet Care

    mother/babyRN replied to NSY4ME's topic in Ob/Gyn

    Our dads can stay and unless we get slammed, our patients have private rooms too. In our area, the majority of people send their babies back to the nursery at night and sadly, that applies even to the...

  2. Mother Baby Couplet Care

    mother/babyRN replied to NSY4ME's topic in Ob/Gyn

    No night nursery DOES suck, and no offense, but the only people that want to room in are excited primips who don't know any better, or lactation consultants who believe it should be so. Any multip...

  3. Mother Baby Couplet Care

    mother/babyRN replied to NSY4ME's topic in Ob/Gyn

    We DO now, if staff permits, try to admit baby in delivery and give the parents quite a bit of time to bond, and then take them over together. We can't do that if we have a bad baby or too many...

  4. Mother Baby Couplet Care

    mother/babyRN replied to NSY4ME's topic in Ob/Gyn

    I have to say I don't think it is safe, at least for us, because we just don't have the staff, especially since we float between units and have to go between nursery, post partum and delivery...

  5. Maternity Ward and earrings.....

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

    How about having to mention that they shouldn't be going around the hospital with scrubs and no jacket when the rest of us had better NOT be caught doing so? And I hate it when docs (or nurses, but...

  6. pitocin protocol

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

    Forgot to mention that our protocol is 10 units pit in 1000cc lr start at 1-2 mu and increase every 15-20 minutes until uc are so far apart lasting so often ( standing orders and they fill in the...

  7. pitocin protocol

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

    We, unfortunatley, don't have a technical limit, but have no problems backing down using nursing judgement, when there is a problem with resting tone, or the baby crashes ( or we just dont like the...

  8. ob superstitions

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

    How about if a nurse (ANY NURSE) comes in as your laboring patient, something is bound to go wrong? If it is a friend or relative the IV will never go in on the first