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Hi everyone, I have an idea for a business and I have searched the web and have been unable to locate anyone doing it. After witnessing all of the problems in long term care I am thinking of contracting with patients families on a one on one basis t...

I am in Knoxville TN - was just offered $26.50 hr. I am an RN

Interestingly enough, I used that very statement just the other day to describe how I felt about my c-section. I had a complete placenta previa with my 1st daughter. I understood the reasoning of the section, I planned for it, I prayed for a healthy ...

Not a chance!!! I feel so discouraged, frustrated and down right angry at times about this profession. We are over loaded with paper work, unable to provide pt care without being rushed through it due to the numbers on our case load, difficulties fin...

So here it goes.... I was a doula in a birthing center for 6 yrs, labor and delivery was my passion... my calling. I went to nursing school only because I wanted to be a L&D nurse. (I do not like anything not pertaining to mommy/baby). I graduate...

Things are GREAT !!!!!!!! I found my home on the HRP unit and I could not be happier. Long term patients, lots of time to be able to spend with them providing education prior to labor, increasing my skill level, knowing that my care is making a diff...

A surrogate mother had just delivered a baby boy for the new parents. The "mother of the baby" called up to check on the surrogate's condition. Unable to release that information, she just had one question of concern - "were they able to repair the r...

The facility, the staff, the pace of the unit, just to name a few. I too LOVE L&D..... but I love L&D in a birthing center atmosphere NOT in an enormous metropolitan hospital where every one is on pit and epidurals. You have to make sure you ...

You have to train your body and YOUR FRIENDS AND FAMILY. No one thought twice about calling me in the middle of the day, when I certainly would not pick up the phone to dial them at 2am. I have been doing this for only 4 months now and they still do ...

I was shocked when a patient of mine went from 8cm to 4cm. (She had been checked by Dr, myself and another nurse - so she was certainly an 8). I was told that the cervix can swell and that is what makes the dilation regress. Atleast in her situation ...

Well, I made the change, I transferred up to High Risk Perinatal and can I just say I LOVE IT !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! OMG !!!! I should have done that long ago. It is everything I wanted, time with the patients to give patient education, a much more calm p...

I am looking for some insight to being a high risk perinatal nurse. What do you like and dislike about your job? What is your case load? How is it different than L&D (my hospital has seperate units for everything), What are some experiences that ...

Thank you soooo much for your response. I have actually been out of work for 3 weeks now - had 2 unexpected surguries of my own. I spoke with my boss and she is planning for me to shadow a nurse in HRP when I return to work. I think that will be a go...

i too had my first fetal demise.... a full term beautiful baby girl. mom had a scheduled c-section planned for the very next day - came in early due to decreased fetal movement. it was simply tragic. the cord was wrapped around her little neck twice ...

LMU2009- Sorry to hear of your experience, as I have tried to explain in previous posts... it is all too common. I do not think you can possibly understand until you have experienced it first hand. All you can do is express the concerns and hope the...

Yes, I graduated a bit ago, but I just heard this about LMU about 2 weeks ago. All I can say is do not go on the statements on their web site. You should check with the state to verify their accredidation before you send your money. They have been u...

I heard LMU lost their accredidation. All I can say is that they lied about their percentage of pass rate. It is very very low. I graduated from there (with honors - no credit to them) and would NEVER advise anyone to attend LMU. They are expensive, ...

I graduated from LMU and would NEVER recommend it. In fact, I recently heard that LMU lost their accredidation. They are very disorganized, terribly expensive, and instruction is less than desirable. I passed boards the 1st time with 75 questions, I ...

Well, a friend of my daughter had a baby girl this year and named the poor thing CaMaria - rhymes with ghonnerea. Did my best to talk her out of it but with no luck!!! Oh the way this child will be picked on....

In the births I have attended, usually the dad or the partner is in the water with the mom. When the baby is born, it is then placed on the mothers chest and wrapped in warm, wet blankets

In Tennessee we have 3 birth centers and all of them practice water births. I have attended numerous ones and it has been a beautiful experience every time. Lots of moms choose to labor in the water and then get out at the time of delivery, while oth...

JWK - I agree with you that the hospital has a great reputation, nor do I disagree with you about the quality of care that is provided to moms. Yes, many moms come back with subsequent pregnancies, as they do in birth centers. If their expectation w...

So I have done a lot of thinking and I went to the person over my internship and told her that I was not giving up but that I needed to have options for "Plan B". I do not think PP will be it, since the number of patients will leave me with the same ...

So you do not like the rural hospital that you are at now? I too DESPISE labor.... can not belive that even comes out of my mouth. There is only 1 birthing center in GA and that is 4 hours away. I am considering moving back home though and would try ...

Janis... I wonder if your friend and I happen to be employed at the same place???? LOL !!! Sounds like it!!! Can you tell me where she was? I am considering transferring to PP - if they have an opening. I mean, I really do not have much choice. I kn...