I am a big advocate for patient education.I have been teaching childbirth classes for 6 1/2 years. I would like to extend this to our ante-partum patients. Many times I have had patients who have been...
After working in a level three hospital OB unit for 25+ yrs, I am totally for hospital deliveries. Mainly because during my 16 yrs in L&D I saw many normal low-risk labors become crash c/sections....
Do you remember putting triple dye on newborns cords? That purple dye stained everything. We did dextrose sticks (blood sugars) and heel-stick hemocrits on all newborns. Babies went to the nursery at...
DEB52 replied to GrnHonu99's topic in Ohio Nursing
I'm an OB RNC currently working on an High Risk OB unit with a bed capac ity of 28 patients (which we had yesterday) . I'm one of the "charge nurses" and have been working in this OB department for 25...
STARTING THIS YEAR OUR HOSPITAL HAS A POLICY THAT YOU ARE LATE AT 1 MINUTE AFTER. THEY ALSO STATED WHAT THE RESULTS WERE IF YOU WERE LATE A NUMBER OF TIMES .THIS IS A HOSPITAL WIDE POLICY AND STATE...
I am so sorry that you are having such a rough time with your OB department. I have been an OB nurse for over 27 yrs. I think the thing that keeps me going is that we make a difference in the new...
After many trials and nurses quitting , our OB department decided on a simple pulling plan. L&D and High Risk pregnancy would cover each other and NBICU and MBU(postpartum) would do the same. This...
I WORK ON A HIGH RISK OB UNIT WITH A BED CAPACITY OF 30 PATIENTS . WE AVERAGE ABOUT 20 TO 25 A DAY. I WOULD LIKE TO HEAR FROM OTHER NURSES WHO WORK ON A HIGH RISK AREA SEPARATE FROM THEIR L&D....
I truly understand how you feel about the residents not taking you seriously. Also when it's busy (and it always seems to be busy) the residents tend to put us at the bottom of the list after triage...