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This is an older thread but at Kaiser, I (RN) do advise calls, telephone triage, NST's, all teaching, and then fill in anywhere else. LVN's do injections and procedures. MA's do all the rooming, routine appointment booking, small in room procedure a...

Relax! This unit is fun, most L&D nurses dread going to MB but I like it too :) Enjoy your patients, have fun teaching the men how to change diapers, pain meds should never be considered PRN, offer them round the clock, try to avoid waking a sle...

We have 2 male techs on our L&D and the patient's have no issues. They work in the labor room, OR and we have never had any issues. Go for it :) NICU is totally open as well!

You are right to worry about gmail or any other public email. Everything you do is "owned" by them essentially, nothing is considered truly private there. I would look into getting your own email service :)

Usually we get condescension more than "yelling". I had one of my OBs tell me to go find her a real nurse since I was obviously not able to do her silly request. But she is just a b(*^^ and I feel sorry for her. But most docs are fine. Just stand...

Go get em!! I love your confidence and your honesty with yourself. That is a field I cannot do, I placed my own children in their place too often. Best wishes :)

Haha of course she SHOULDN'T have to but when has that ever been the way of bedside nursing politics? :) OP: I used to have a nurse do that to me, ignore report, not look, annoying? Yes. So I just gave my report when I knew she could hear and I ma...

Original post: She did not have "dispoable income" as a CNA. She was getting handouts from the govenment. Now she has a job that gives her enough to pay her own bills so I don't have too. Sorry, but that whole paragraph with the income breakdown is a...

No I was implying that her thinking that we make all this awesome money and we can flaunt it and roll in the dough is a child's ways of thinking. She got the grow up part when she realized that "wow, as a nurse I really DON'T make all that great mon...

She did not have "dispoable income" as a CNA. She was getting handouts from the govenment. Now she has a job that gives her enough to pay her own bills so I don't have too. Sorry, but that whole paragraph with the income breakdown is a big fat wel...

There are no couplet care clinic jobs. In clinic as an OB RN I do NST's, injections and advice. This is almost always in relation to the mother while pregnant or mom problems (such as bleeding) after pregnancy. All baby questions go to the RN in t...

In L&D we used IV phenergan all the time, good patent vein, highest port over 2 min. In Kaiser it would take a whole lot more than a documented, reported, followed up medication error. We can't even be written up for med errors unless it is ob...

What is it you would like to do? You mentioned your current job is as far away as you can get. What is the other side?

If you work for a company like Kaiser under a union the clinic nurses are paid the same as everybody else. I am at $60/hr.

What is the problem with the last paragraph? Religion bothers you so? That is a bit sad that people are so judgemental that a nice and interesting article is suddely disregarded because she believes in God. If you don't believe, then take it with a...

She wasn't saying it was an issue, she was saying that it is unfortunate that there are seemingly less people for you to learn from in the workforce and outside of school. You learn a knowledge set in school that is great. You learn a completely di...

I understand where the OP was coming from but I also understand why her comments could be taken...wrong. I have been a nurse for 4 years, that makes me young in nurse years but I come with other experience that is useful to me. I have older nurses ...

How'd ya guess Grew up in Seattle, work in the Bay Area.

I work in L&D and an OBGYN clinic. We do medical TABS and

Are you unable to take the test for med school again? With doing well in med school perhaps you just need a better study and test taking strategy for your chosen career. You got into med school, a shame to not finish if there is a way... I did an A...

I have friends covered in tattoos who are nurses, midwives, etc. I myself have a tongue ring and large, albiet, coverable tattoos. It all depends on your culture. Get hired first, then most people won't say anything :) Also different departments...

I got hired directly into L&D so no a year of med/surg is not required. The OB floor will look much better than med/surg 100 times over. You may not float to L&D from Mom/baby but we float there. So if you know the pattern of post partum t...

Are you standing up for yourself? You don't have to sign the write up and can take the issue above her head if you truly feel the write up is unwarrented. The other thing to do is become chummy with the chronic complainer. I had that happen to me ...

Just like the Bay Area nursing jobs for new grads are almost impossible to find. It sounds like you don't have any ties holding you to Ontario besides friends etc.? Have you thought about moving? That is never fun (or actually maybe it could be!) bu...

My MD's are pretty good, never had them refuse for a bad baby, anesthesia was a gem most of the time. I get the most push back from clinic questions!