MrsRitchie

These are great! I love the blue scrub towels. They are my best cleaning rags. I also love the specimen cups that come in the straight cath kits (we do a lot of straight caths in L&D). My 6 year old stores her 1,000,000 beads in them! And I keep one in my purse with a mixture of rubbing alcohol and betasept and my clear nose ring spacer/nose ring (depending on if I'm clocked in or out).

I hate doing PKU's. I've been bargaining and doing another nurses hearing screen if she'll do my PKU. í ½í¸‚

Also, our providers place them by feel, usually.

Our foley bulb protocol and Cook cervical catheter protocols are identical, with the exception of how much NS to insert and there is no need to tug on the Cook.

Yes, we often text our own providers before coming in SROM'd, just so they are aware they will have to come in later.

I think you would get those questions if you worked anywhere- as a nurse or not. I am having a hard time relating to your post bc the two hospitals I work at- my coworkers are truly like family.

I work in a labor and delivery unit. We also have antepartum. Our hospital is pretty great about sticking to AWOHN standards and usually labors are all 1:1. Maybe 1 labor and 1 ante. Or 1 labor and 1 triage... but if the triage stays she goes to someone else. find out how they staff and then decide from there.

Welcome back!

Really? I work at two different hospitals and both do 39 week inductions on the regular. There has has been talk that Medicaid is going to stop paying for elective inductions but I have no idea if that is true or not. i am wondering where you all are from that don't do elective inductions (which I think is awesome I just can't believe it!!). I'm in the Midwest. As as far as cytotec vs Pit, some providers do cytotec if they are unfavorable and some go straight to Pit. my personal opinion is that if you have to have cervical ripening on an elective induction you shouldn't be allowed to be induced. I was on a committee last year for reducing our NTSV c/s rate and primips with an initial Bishop of less than 8 that were less than 40 weeks had something like a 50% c/s rate. It might have been higher- my stats sheet is at home.

At Freeman new grads (I don't remember if you said you were a new grad or not) start out at $17.45/hr. The night diff is $3.59. I believe it is pretty much the same for St. John's, but StJ might also have a weekend option availible. Both hospitals offer some sort of tuition reimbursement also. As a side note- I have heard rumors that StJ is about to be bought out, but I'm not sure by whom.

Okay, sorry I may have misunderstood. I thought you were talking about the "breastfeeding diaper bags" sent by the formula companies.

"One often-overlooked resource are formula companies and the like. Yes, often people are not happy with these, and baby-friendly hospitals do not accept materials from them. But if yours does, I know the major companies provide some excellent breastfeeding and first-year baby care books." Oh please do not do this. It's just the formula companies way of getting their voice in the discouraged mom who wants to breastfeed's mind. "Excellent breastfeeding"- I strongly disagree. They just have that tempting little container of formula to "bail" the mom out when they are distressed in the middle of the night. Yikes, I really hate those things.

It's what I want to do anyway (eventually) but just curious if anyone knows of a good resource where I could find this information.

Uh, oh. Pharm is in the first semester of Nursing School for me...And Adult Health! Both of those are listed above!! Ahhhh!!! :)

I'm in Joplin- aren't there any others from Joplin? I start Nursing School at MO Southern in August...so ready for it to be here already. I think I might not even enjoy summer (which never happens), I'll just want it to end so I can start school again. (I've been out for two years when hubby and I got pregnant!!! :))