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  1. New OB Nurses, Grads and Students, Please Feel Free to post your questions here:

    nurseynightnight replied to SmilingBluEyes's topic in Ob/Gyn

    Nursing student- I would think birthing centers would be pretty free from drug abusers. Since most of those mom's tend to be au natural/married women. I work in a small town (18,000) but it is also...

  2. New OB Nurses, Grads and Students, Please Feel Free to post your questions here:

    nurseynightnight replied to SmilingBluEyes's topic in Ob/Gyn

    I deal by choosing not to work in a large city hospital. I could have worked in a larger hospital but knew that I would have to deal with more of these types of situations. Even at my small hospital...

  3. TV programs

    nurseynightnight replied to crissrn27's topic in Ob/Gyn

    I dont have DHC!!! My husband thinks I am crazy b/c I watch things like A Baby Story and Bringing Home Baby on TLC. He thinks I should "get enough of that stuff from work." But what can I say. It's...

  4. Acute Fatty Liver Syndrome of Pregnancy

    nurseynightnight replied to ark-two's topic in Ob/Gyn

    We have only had one at my hospital. She ended up doing ok but had to leave the hospital without her baby due to a fetal demise. A very sad and tragic illness for labor and delivery to deal

  5. Vaginal Exams

    nurseynightnight replied to buckeyes24's topic in Ob/Gyn

    I tend to go with what I feel someone is. I have charted no change before or the same as what the previous nurse thought so I wouldn't have to tell the patient something different. Then to have a...

  6. I want to quit....

    nurseynightnight replied to RNTEX's topic in Ob/Gyn

    I feel so bad for you!!! This does sound like a horrible job!!! I agree with previous posters that a smaller hospital with fewer deliveries would be more conducive to learning. I feel ashamed to...

  7. fetal movement assessment

    nurseynightnight replied to PEDSOBRN's topic in Ob/Gyn

    I usually chart what the mom says. Like "the baby is really active." Or you can also chart if you see/feel fetal movement through the abdomen. For example- fetal movement palpated through abdomen. I...

  8. Question about your rooms..

    nurseynightnight replied to BittyBabyGrower's topic in Ob/Gyn

    I have to agree that it is best to stabilize infant in front of the parents. If your mother or father were coding wouldn't you want to be there?? I would. We are a small hospital (700...

  9. deep tendon reflexes

    nurseynightnight replied to L&DRNJenn's topic in Ob/Gyn

    Hi Jenn! I check brachial and patellar. I almost always use a reflex hammer unless I am just too lazy to go find one and happen to have a stethoscope on me. But the stethoscope doesn't work well for...

  10. pts going out to smoke

    nurseynightnight replied to crissrn27's topic in Ob/Gyn

    We recently went smoke free on our campus but our patients continue to smoke. They aren't supposed to smoke anywhere on our campus including the parking lot. So they just go out to their car and do...

  11. New here and in position...Need advice!!!

    nurseynightnight replied to NelliRN06's topic in Ob/Gyn

    We do phone triage at my hospital. For the first few years I worked there we had NO record of the calls. We told them what we thought they should do and that was it. Either they showed up or they...

  12. on call pay?

    nurseynightnight replied to Pray's topic in Ob/Gyn

    We get an hours pay for every 8 hours of call. We work 12 hour shifts and our shift is broken down from 7p-11p and then 11p-7a. So you could be on call the first 4 hours, the unit gets busy but not...

  13. LPN role in OB

    nurseynightnight replied to kat7ap's topic in Ob/Gyn

    We use LPN's on our unit. We have 1 on every shift. We are a small unit and aren't separated by L+D, PP, nursery. The RN's do it all. Now our LPN's take couplets, they scrub in for any c/s. They...

  14. No more VBACs

    nurseynightnight replied to 33-weeker's topic in Ob/Gyn

    We are a rural hospital and we still do

  15. Have your own malpractice insurance?

    nurseynightnight replied to 1studentnurse's topic in General Nursing

    I do not have my own insurance. Like you my instructors told us not to get insurance. There reasoning was that if a person finds out you have insurance they are more likely to sue you b/c of the...

  16. Graceland - Independence, MO - anyone familiar with the BSN program?

    nurseynightnight replied to kjfhome's topic in General Nursing

    One of my coworkers went to Graceland. She is a very smart girl and has only said good things about the school! Sorry I don't know any details just that is seemed to produce a good

  17. Staffing woes...LDRP

    nurseynightnight replied to mommy2boysaz's topic in Ob/Gyn

    Wow!!! Some of these staffing situations are scary!!! I would be nervous every night at work. For starters we always have a secretary at my hospital (except for vacation days obviously) We do a few...

  18. My poor co-worker!

    nurseynightnight replied to tryingtomakeit's topic in Ob/Gyn

    We have to float to other units sometimes and we (nurses) hate it!!! We as OB nurses are not allowed to take patients so what has been happening is we are working as techs or CNA's. So we do all of...

  19. job and personal life?

    nurseynightnight replied to love2shop's topic in Ob/Gyn

    Well I would say it goes both ways. It does make me want to be pregnant again and go through labor/delivery and the hospital stay afterwards! I delivered at "my" hospital the last 2 times and they...

  20. Have you had a baby at your hospital??

    nurseynightnight replied to shortstuff31117's topic in Ob/Gyn

    4cm/100%/0 and ruptured... You can't walk at your hospital when that is the case??? That is a great time to allow someone to walk. Wow is all I can

  21. Mother/Baby nursing?

    nurseynightnight replied to rnin02's topic in Ob/Gyn

    Our RN's do labor/delivery,postpartum and nursery. We also have 1 LPN on every shift that can do postpartum and well babies. We are not separated since we are a small hospital and only do around 700+...

  22. Have you had a baby at your hospital??

    nurseynightnight replied to shortstuff31117's topic in Ob/Gyn

    I had my last 2 babies at "my" hospital and LOVED it!!! It is so relaxing to know what is going on. You know all of the women taking care of you. It was just like family to me. You know the routines...