crabbynurse

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1. How do you treat home birth transfers??

   crabbynurse replied to shortstuff31117's topic in Ob/Gyn

   Personally, I treat all of my patients with respect. Most of my co-workers do as well. The few times I've seen homebirth transfers come in, the moms were treated well, but there were many opinions...

2. Fetal death after maternal death

   crabbynurse replied to WorkofHeart8's topic in Ob/Gyn

   I've only seen one crash c/s result in a live baby, when the mom died. The mom threw an AFE when the OB broke her water. We got the baby out in less than 5 minutes and she did well. I've seen 3 or 4...

3. PKU testing

   crabbynurse replied to doglover21's topic in Ob/Gyn

   In KY, we always did them after 48 hours (repeating if discharge occured prior to 48 hours) until about a year or so ago. The law changed and allowed PKUs to be done after 24 hours. That's 24 hours...

4. Women's Health Care Nurse Practitioner

   crabbynurse replied to htrn's topic in Certified Nurse-Midwives, CNM

   Just an FYI, I considered Frontier to become a CNM a few years ago. At that time you could do the CNM track and then with 3 more clinical hours be eligible for dual certification as a CNM and