Ponder

Help! I have been a nurse for 25 yrs. L/D for 15 and I have HAD IT!! I am at the end of my rope and ready to quit! I need advise from L/D nurses. Now they are making us take the STABLE exam, along w. NRP, ACLS, Adv. Fetal Monitoring I can't take it anymore. I am able to resuc. a baby and stabilize until the NICU arrives ( @ 1-2 min). Now I need to know about a 6 wk old baby readmitted w. RSV?? or Coarctacion (SP) of the Aorta?? WHY?? I don't want to know how to take care of babies older than a few hours. That's why I do L/D and they do NICU. I work for a large hosp. FOR PROFIT corp. where the bottom line is not pt. care it is $$$. The more "certified' and "tested" we are the more money they get from the insurance co.'s. I have had it... I just want to take care of women having a baby, not be strapped to a computer charting more than any other dept. in the hosp. Please is anyone else, who does not rotate between dept.s', required to take STABLE? I can't forsee EVER needing it unless we have a major disaster and then I'm sure there will be 1or 2 NICU nurses floating around. I want to add I am well liked and respected by my peers and the MD's I work with. I am a preceptor and have trained over 8 nurses in the 5 yrs. I have been w. my present job. I love L/D, not all this other B**S. Please advise...