Elvish BSN, DNP, RN, NP

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    Comfort Food After a L o n g Shift

    Elvish replied to EMSnut45's topic in General Nursing

    Something salty or pretty much any kind of pasta. There is a family-owned Italian restaurant in my town that makes baked ziti I could eat every day of my
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    Looking for info on pp hemorrage & lactation

    Elvish replied to akmama75's topic in Ob/Gyn

    I have taken care of a mom with Sheehan's syndrome (pituitary necrosis confirmed radiologically). Her EBL was something like 2500 after a vag delivery. I am really cautious about telling moms that...
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    No prenatal care?!

    Elvish replied to rrprn's topic in Ob/Gyn

    It's hard, because so much of the time if just one thing were different, the entire outcome would be changed. At the same time, IUFDs happen for no good reason that we can tell, to women who get PNC...
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    The best nursing advice you've ever received

    Elvish replied to findingmywayRN's topic in General Nursing

    Never trust a
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    When a baby is born....what does your hospital do?

    Elvish replied to DutchgirlRN's topic in Ob/Gyn

    One of the hospitals where I did clinicals in nursing school played Brahms' lullaby for births. Where I am currently we don't do anything, which I hadn't really thought about 'til now, but it would be...
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    Could I like OB even if I'm an "all natural" kind of girl?

    Elvish replied to lalalalexi's topic in Ob/Gyn

    My first thought on reading the OP was that the issue would be with 'the system' and not patients. And honestly, as a nurse in the field, it is my biggest area of frustration. Most of us (I'm speaking...
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    The Great Emergency Prank War

    Elvish replied to murphyle's topic in Nursing Humor

    The best prank I ever conspired to pull I can't tell because it would give me away for sure. When I worked at a community health center, we did do a u/a once on a glass of apple cider and showed it...
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    Online OB/GYN/PP/Prenatal CEU's?

    Elvish replied to PARNMOM's topic in Ob/Gyn

    www.motherbabyuniversity.com
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    possible to be ruptured and be closed?

    Elvish replied to JadeRN7's topic in Ob/Gyn

    Ina May Gaskin mentions it in one of her books - I can't remember if it's in Spiritual Midwifery or Ina May's Guide to Childbirth, but she does recognize the
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    Escorting patients to labor

    Elvish replied to rickdon19's topic in Ob/Gyn

    Where I am now, pt registration brings them up to triage unless the pt looks acts like delivery is imminent, then they will call L&D down to bring them up. Even if they are preregistered (which...
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    Hospital Expansion

    Elvish replied to LouisVRN's topic in General Nursing

    I am a big fan of decentralized nursing stations - that way nurses can be near their patients, assuming they are all (or mostly) in the same 'pod'. The floor I currently work on has two wings - one...
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    TDAP Immunization

    Elvish replied to rickdon19's topic in Ob/Gyn

    We sometimes like to defer MMR being given until day of discharge as well, but there are people who work days who don't like that extra thing to do in the rush of discharges. (which I can understand,...
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    Teamwork project

    Elvish replied to Linds91's topic in Ob/Gyn

    Are there techs on nightshift that would be willing/able to set up the ORs before leaving if there are early AM
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    OBs doing unnecessary C-Sections and inductions

    Elvish replied to a_wallace4's topic in Ob/Gyn

    I think I am really lucky, we don't do that many social inductions. So few that I don't think I'd even be able to hazard a guess. Most of our inductions are post-dates (which I realize can be...
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    Midwives for Haiti

    Elvish replied to adpiRN's topic in Ob/Gyn

    Very cool!!! This is something I'd go do in a hearbeat after my dh gets his papers all straight. :) I follow a blog of some missionary folks in Port-au-Prince who have a prenatal clinic as well as a...
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    TDAP Immunization

    Elvish replied to rickdon19's topic in Ob/Gyn

    We don't give out TdaP to women on the postpartum floor. We do give out MMR and during flu season we did flu vaxes too. Usually it's the RN that gets the consent signed, and we give out VISs too. I...
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    IM injection on myself...need help

    Elvish replied to sk8inghunny's topic in General Nursing

    The other posters are correct. I'd strongly encourage you to call your MD's office with these questions. We can't give out medical advice here, in accordance with our Terms of Service. We do wish you...
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    Music in the NICU- need your opinions

    Elvish replied to soleilrose's topic in NICU, Neonatal

    Moved to NICU forum. I think it must completely depend on the patient. If you're talking a micropremie or an critical sick kid, then yes - I'd agree with decreasing stimulation of ANY kind - music or...
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    pre-delivery "grooming" issue?

    Elvish replied to brillohead's topic in Ob/Gyn

    I am very very lucky to be married to a man who doesn't even ask me to shave my legs, much less anything more intimate. He was born and raised in a place where women didn't remove hair from their...
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    A Father's Tears

    Elvish posted a topic in Ob/Gyn

    Hi guys.... I recently had a sucky, sad, heartbreaking shift. I process things by writing about them. This is what I wrote about this situation. I'm going to use it for a project at work but I wanted...
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    Online RN-BSN...where to go?

    Elvish replied to levans121687's topic in Online Distance Learning

    Moved to Distance Learning
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    ?? about inverted T and classical incison...

    Elvish replied to shortstuff31117's topic in Ob/Gyn

    We don't do this either. They get repeat sectioned just like everybody
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    Nursing in the Airforce

    Elvish replied to anne g.'s topic in Government, Military

    Moved to Government and Military
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    Things you'd LOVE to be able to tell patients, and get away with it.

    Elvish replied to AngelfireRN's topic in Patient, Colleague Relations

    "Did you see what your baby went through just to get born? Do you happen to realize everything he banged into on the way out? If he survived all that, then I can assure you that neither: bringing him...
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    flexible schedule

    Elvish replied to purple*11's topic in General Nursing

    My first nursing job was 2 8's and 2 12's. Right now I work 2 12's, and my unit is a mix of those who work only 12's, those who work only 8's, those who work both, and those who work PRN. So it's...