LauraLou

If you don't like being called "honey", "sweetie" don't come to Texas! You'd be in a constant state of irritation! You can be condescending or patronizing just as easily using someone's name as you can saying honey. It's all in how you say it. If ...

I really like http://www.ivf-infertility.com/phpBB2/viewforum.php?f=1 I have been posting there since April and have made some wonderful cyber-friends.

At my hospital, it doesn't matter if the doctor is male or female, a female nurse must be present when a pelvic exam is present. That protects both the pts and the doctor. I personally once had a male doctor who performed a pelvic exam without his...

We don't have any male nurses in L&D, antepartum, postpartum or nursery. I think male nurse are great, but I don't see how having a male ob nurse would work. At our hospital, a male doctor must have a female nurse present when he does a vaginal...

I finished my internship and started on nights this month. I love it so far. After getting home from work I'm tired, so I go to sleep around 8:30 am and get up at 4:00 or 4:30 pm. On my days off, I stay up until 2:00 or 3:00 am and sleep until 11:...

Did it ask questions in a similar fashion as the NCLEX? Do you think it helped you prepare for the NCLEX? I found the HESI and the NCLEX to be very different. The HESI asked specific questions about disease processes, etc. Where the NCLEX question...

I'm a new grad in L&D and I almost made a med error a couple of weeks ago. The pt's placenta was out, so I went to bolus her with pitocin. She had numerous bags hanging and I started to bolus her with magnesium sulfate by mistake! Luckily my p...

I took the Kaplan review, but I did it online instead of the in-person class. It was good, lots of test taking strategies. It consisted of online video instruction and practice questions. I especially liked the instructors' discussions of the corr...

Come to Big Baylor!!! (Baylor University Medical Center) I have nothing but great things to say about Baylor. It is a very positive place to work, and there is definitly a "Baylor spirit". There is a strong focus on meeting pts' medical, emotional...

We recently had a 46 yr old pt with IVF twins. When documenting her ob history, I realized she had her first baby in 1978!! The youngest I've seen was 13.

I graduated in December and am working in Labor and Delivery. I have a wonderful orientation/internship. It consists of 14 weeks with a preceptor in addition to weekly classroom instruction. I choose this hospital because it has such great trainin...

I went to nursing school thinking I wanted to be a NICU nurse. But I found that what I really love about nursing is building relationships with pts, doing teaching, providing emotional support, etc. I worked as a tech during school on a postpartum ...

I have a question about helping pts push. My preceptor has the pt hold her breath and push for a count of 10 x 3 per contraction, while we hold her legs. This is how I learned in nursing school and is the way I have always seen it done. The interns...

Wow, I am really suprised that people have such short internships. Mine is 14 weeks long. I am not completely on my own until mid-April. I am working L&D/Antepartum so perhaps that is the difference, but 4-6 weeks doesn't seem very long.

I took the NCLEX-RN on 1/5/06. I passed with 75 questions. I would say 85% of the test was prioritization questions. Who would you see first, who would you discharge first, etc. Unlike some other posters, I thought the Kaplan review was very goo...

I just graduated in December(passed the NCLEX on 1/5/06 and am now a real RN!:)). I don't think there was anyone in our class who didn't find a job. There are a few hospitals and nurse managers who prefer BSN students to ADN students, but that is r...

I just finished my first week of new nurse orientation and we actually had a session on nurse-doctor communication. They gave us forms that detail what information you should have ready before calling the MD and list the chain of command if you don'...

My psych rotation was at the state psychiatric hospital. The pts suffer from severe mental illnesses and some have been hospitalized for years. Because of a lack of funding, none of the pts get individual counseling, just group activities like art ...

I passed the exit HESI on Friday, so I'm done!!!! :smiley_aa I can't wait to start my job in January. I finally made it.

I am so sorry this happened to you. You must feel so violated. He assaulted you physically and verbally. From someone in a position of authority and trust, that is very damaging. I have been through something similar. When I was in my early 20's,...

We also have to wear all white. I bought mine online from Jasco. I am finishing my last semester and am still using the 2 uniforms I bought first semester. They have lasted really well, even being washed so much. Be sure to wear beige underwear s...

I am so sorry! I went thru something similar in June. We lost a mother on Antepartum due to a brain aneurism. I still get upset when I think about her. It was such a tragedy. I had feelings of shock, guilt, anger and grief. Talking about it wit...

I have a job on the antepartum unit where I work as a tech. I can't wait to be done with school!

I will be graduating from El Centro in December. I'm editing this post because it came out more negative than I intended. The point I wanted to make is that El Centro looses are large percentage of students. There are very few support systems in ...

I am doing my clinical rotation this semester in the ICU. It has trauma, cardiac and neuro pts. I also find it completely overwhelming. Definitely not my thing, but I have learned so much. So many monitors, alarms going off, tubes and ports every...