NikRN

Hi everyone, Just wanted some information if anyone has it! Was visiting Durango this last week. Wanted to know what people thought of the Health System out there. (beautiful new hospital!) and what the Nurses pay is out there. Housing seemed rather expensive, so i wondered if the pay was high enough for the cost of living.. Thanks for your help! So appreciate it! Nik:monkeydance:

Hi everyone.. hoping to hear back about any OB/GYN offices or Hospital department in the area. Looking to move closer to my grandparents as they are now in their 80's and i want my daughters to spend as much time with them as we can. I currently work in Colorado Springs in the Antepartum/postpartum dept. Hopefully will be cross training to L&D later this year. Any information would be Fabulous! Thanks Nik

After delivery a pt who needs to be on mag usually stays on t he L&D floor. If they get full then they move the mag pt to our floor but a L&D nurse will still have care. A few years ago I heard that our floor was taking care of mag pts. But liike I said, a few of the nurses literally "cried" when having to care of them. Recently we were in desperate need to have one of our more experienced nurses care for a mag pt because L&D was so full. I walked in to a nurse bawling her eyes out over the request. its quite strange. I love my job, I would just like to expand my experience/knowlege and do mag pts. I may just have to move to L&D I guess.

To explain that, we have mag pts on our floor, however the L&D nurse has to be on our floor to care for them. Other than that the mag pts take up beds over in L&D, until they are needed then transferred to us. then we get care transfered to us after they come off mag. Either way, its frustrating because I dont get to learn everything about antepartum nursing. Its putting a damper on my chance at new knowledge. nik

Hi all, I am a nurse on an antepartum floor. I have read that some of the L&D floors do both delivery, antepartum and postpartum. At my hospital L&D and Antepartum are sister units but completely seperated by closed sections and post partum is located on a completely different floor. (not for as long though, entire new building will be done in august to house all womens health) anyways.. sorry for rambling.. wanted to know more about some of your antepartum floors. we do both antepartum and GYN surgicals. Antepartum however overrules surgicals and they will get booted if a demise or pretermer comes over from L&D. One thing I am bothered by on our floor is we are not able to do Mag pts anymore. I am a new grad this year, so this is all I know. But i heard it was because a couple of the newer nurses cried because mag was so scary. Just curious about your opnions. I would love the chance to have a mag pt. New drug, new experience, but I dont get to. Seems they are taking away many of our opportunities. even if we were to float to Post partum... we no longer get to do the nursery babies only the moms. hmmm Talk to me! Nik

Hi there! Welcome to colorado when you do get here! I live in colorado springs. New Grads start at 21.70 at the hospital I am at! Good luck! Nik

I was visiting a small town in Colorado. My boyfriend and I went to a local bar and was talking with the bartender. We were busy talking about the town and then started discussing medical facilities in the area. She proceeded to tell me she was a Nurse and was making really good money. I replied with more questions about the pay and such and informed her I was also an RN. She got quiet and said "well, actually I am a CNA for home care." Wow.. that is a huge difference to me! I felt kinda upset at first because I had worked really hard to get through school and earn my RN status. It made things a little uncomfortable for a bit, but the conversation continued.