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I too was beginning to wonder if there were any nurses from TN visiting here!! I worked in Knoxville for many years at Ft Sanders. I see that many of the mothers wanting to get in and get to work as a RN are asking about a fast track. I would like ...

What do I think??? I think you all have WAY too much time on your hands!!! Oh how I miss those slow nights!!!! We don't have those anymore!:chuckle :roll :chuckle

Could someone give some feedback on a very troubling trend in my old unit. I recently saw a friend from the old unit I had worked in forever (a MD). I was told by this doctor, that the hospital (which was always understaffed before), has lost ALL of...

Here again is the RESPONSIBLE USE of IV fluids in the laboring pt! In the old days we did stat EKG and blood sugar on any pt BEFORE she recv'd terb. Then, when we started using brethine sq the docs had to give it!! As for the trendelenberg, it was a ...

This is entirely too much fluid to be routinely done!!! We are a high risk unit and that changes things a bit but still!!! We bolus the CE pt just prior to placement with 1000 cc and prior to that it's 125/hr unless specified otherwise. A nurse shoul...

I found OB love thru a great instructor-thanks Glenda! --and a 99 % on the NLN exam which impressed us all!! Then I started in L&D as the first new grad they had accepted in 30 years and it was love!! After almost 16 yrs, I can't imagine working ...

My personal best was 3 in a 30 min time period which is etched in my memory forever! I was cleaning up baby in rm 1, handed him to dad, rushed next door and caught baby in rm 2 and did a quick clean up (thankfully both were normal uncomplicated deli...

if ya haven't delivered yet, here goes: try to stay distracted during labor i.e. talk to family/ friends, walk alot, try our the tub, do anything but sit and concentrate on your body at work!! I have seen many first timers and the ones who kept occup...

As a previous PIH'er and C/S X3, I know now why the nurses (who I thought were being silly and old fashioned) would not let me up oob until day 3!!!! I was so mad, I thought that because my bp was down almost to a normal reading I could go to the NIC...

WOW! I thought I was alone in my experience here! In the late 80's, I was a green L&D nurse just learning OB and the hospital decided to "pull" from L&D to any and all areas, including ICU, CCU, AIDS floors, etc. and if it got busy in L&D...

hey, that breech delivery experience may not be "done" anymore but it sure "happens", if ya know what I mean!! It was great that ya got the experience because if you stay in long enough, it WILL come in one night, just when you least expect it!! Cons...

Hi all! There is a new twist to this story I originally submitted. It seems there was a situation with a "specialist" and an RN with 19 yrs experience. The MD threw a cussing fit and almost hit the nurse and ob tech and the nurse wrote up the doc for...

Nurses are also exposed to drugs at their disposal, a temptation some can't overcome. It has to start somewhere, but the simple fact that a nurse has exposure to narcotics everyday makes it part of the problem. Doctors too, are in this category and...

Like the others, I too have great memories of my cap and what it stood for, hard work, pride in the profession, the history of our sisters before us. Fast forward to today and it is still a great feeling, a remembrance to hold on to. Then I remember...

I join the ?break? crowd. In 15 yrs I never had an "official" break!!! I did work with the smoker crowd, who ALWAYS managed to go outside, even with all h$#& breaking loose, and no one had time to go get them!! We have had them paged before and ...

Another point to ponder: if you LOOK like one of the staff, you could be called upon to help (in the hallway?) and you would be put in a very tough position trying to explain. The public is still very old fashioned with nurses. I once worked in an o...

Unless we are making remarkable progress (visable) I change pt position q 20 min or so, depending on fht's. I know this is my soapbox, but here again, we are stuck in the "we've always done it this way" attitude. Some dr's are adamant that THEIR pts...

Ain't it a hoot that doctors REFUSE to give credit where credit is due!! Most of them STILL only do what they learned in med school and it's the gospel to them!!! If only we could all work together for the good of our pts. I can't tell you how many...

I just want to clarify something happystar. I have friends from England and there they use the term midwife to describe a OB RN. Is this what you are asking about, or what we mean with the term here in America. I just thought it might change someon...

we only use it for iufd due to the above. the doc's place it, and we're happy with that. too much liability and like above, a few doc's who LOVE to pass the blame when anything goes wrong. we don't place iupc's either and only experienced r n's pla...

It has been my experience (16 yrs now), that the uterus CAN become "worn out" so to speak, with this method. I wonder if there is any official literature on this? As previously mentioned, there all various factors involved; i.e. a RIPE cx. Even when...

Some of this %@*# CAN be blamed on the TV shows. Although I do enjoy some of them from time to time, they make the whole process look fast and friendly. All wrapped up in a 30 min show. The nurse is just a bystander and not "in charge" and does not...

First, I have to say I TRULY love this thread. I agree that it's hard to call it superstition if it's almost always on the mark! I taught a childbirth class and heard alot of of "old wives tales" and I would ask for any "advice" they had rec'd. The ...

Dear sisters, These posts are soooo true to my career in L&D!! I just wish that those nurses who have said to me, upon finding out I was in OB, "Oh, you aren't a real nurse, you just ROCK babies"!!!!! could spend a few of these shifts with u...

I had just started working in L&D at a brand new, state of the art, "family birthing center" about 10 yrs ago. One day a lady passed me in the hallway holding a child about 18 mos old. I suddenly noticed the child was COVERED in a red rash a bli...