tntblonde

tntblonde specializes in OB.

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1. Question about med surg to OB

   tntblonde replied to Mayaquice's topic in Ob/Gyn

   In our hospital it used to be a practice to have 5 years med/surg experience before allowing anyone to work in any speciliaty area. A few years ago that changed and we started orienting new grads to our post partum unit..some did well,some not... wha...

2. curious about length of orientation to labor and delivery

   tntblonde replied to tntblonde's topic in Ob/Gyn

   I am not orienting to the birth center...lol... I'm the preceptor! I have worked in l&d for 15 plus years and postpartum for the 5 years before that, being in nursing for 25 years total..I agree orientation the longer the better. We currently ori...

3. curious about length of orientation to labor and delivery

   tntblonde posted a topic in Ob/Gyn

   I was just looking for some information. How long do most nurses have to orient to labor and delivery? Our unit orients birth center nurses for 6 months with a preceptor, then they are considered as staff always working with a more experienced labor ...

4. Tips for reaching a posterior cervix??

   tntblonde replied to shortstuff31117's topic in Ob/Gyn

   I agree with all, first off lay patient flat as possible and ask her to lift her hips up, like a pelvic thrust exercise... but basically if the cervix is that posterior the dilation makes little difference, that baby isnt going to fall out! and why p...

5. Staffing woes...LDRP

   tntblonde replied to mommy2boysaz's topic in Ob/Gyn

   Our unit has about 500 deliveries a year. We staff L&D with two RN's, we are not a locked unit, we do not have an aide or secretary. We have a postpartum unit that is not attached to our unit and it also holds pedi pt. and takes any med/surg over...

6. POLL: How many births/yr and do you have in-house anesthesia / OB providers?

   tntblonde replied to mitchsmom's topic in Ob/Gyn

   we have 500 deliveries a year, OB oncall must be within 20 min. of hospital unless we are running pit anesthesia also on call, we have a new anesthesia group at our hospital they are much more ready to come in and they do our epidurals for us,which ...

7. Foley Balloons for cervical ripening?

   tntblonde replied to RAIZIE's topic in Ob/Gyn

   sorry this was my first post and duhhh didn't realize there were previous discussions... after reading through them... this sounds like a pretty old practice! we use pit, cervidil and cytotec. mostly just plain old pit, and not low dose!..

8. awhonn guidelines

   tntblonde replied to MIA-RN1's topic in Ob/Gyn

   I have not seen any info from awhonn regarding numbers of couplets, I find it unusual that your email made that statement as awhonn doesnt usually attach numbers like that to their guidelines it seems to me that five couplets and a large assignment a...

9. Foley Balloons for cervical ripening?

   tntblonde replied to RAIZIE's topic in Ob/Gyn

   someone tell me exactly what a foley ripening is, we don't do them at our facility

10. epidurals

    tntblonde replied to babyktchr's topic in Ob/Gyn

    we get the up as soon as they have sensation and the ability to move there own legs generally pretty quickly after delivery within an hour or two.