mer_RN

I have heard people talk about the Bradley method. They generally speak poorly of it. One doctor told me that she heard people who wanted to do the bradley method of labor, were told my their instructor not to tell their OB until they walked into th...

We do the Duramorph then pull the epidural/spinal after delivery and they can have perc, motrin, or tylenol prn. the pts. really itch like crazy with the duramorph and some of them vomit a lot. anesthesia orders also have meds for these side effects....

I get so irritated when pts. say... "I want to give the baby my breast." I don't know what it is about that simple statement that just makes me want to jump through the ceiling! The other thing is when the family/visitors arrive to the unit before mo...

call HR and ask the status of your application. I did this when I was a new grad and didn't get any callbacks. Many times they apologized for not calling and set up an interview immediately.

I worked in postpartum for 4 years when i got out of school and am now making the jump to L&D. PP was a good place for me to start because I am someone who likes to start "slow" and work my way up. But don't think PP is slow, at least not where I...

I am an RN/BSN with 4 years experience in a large hospital. I have charge experience of an 90 bed unit, as well as precepting new nurses and students. After relocating to another state I am searching for jobs. I would like to stay in the same general...

i have found i always start feeling this way when i haven't gone on vacation lately. seriously, you really must take a week off about every 6 months. i have only been a nurse for 4 years but i have definitely noticed an increase in pt/family demands ...

our census in OB has been way down for about 4 months now. management tells us this is the case all over the country and no one has an explanation. summer has always been busy for us.

I'm sorry you feel like the nurses and the CNA's don't work as a team. The CNA's on my unit sometimes also say that the nurses are lazy. It is concerning that you feel the only things you aren't doing that the RN is, is assessments and meds. that is ...

I just went for my new employee physical and I am confused about the NP asking me about "fit testing." I told her that at my last job I "failed" the fit test because i could always taste the saccharine and bitter stuff when it was sprayed while wear...

I reccomend working at Inova Fairfax Hospital and living in the West Springfield area. trust me you don't want to live anywhere near Belvoir, lorton or Woodbridge. West Springfield is a decent commute to the base and to the hospital (20 minutes). get...

if you are miserable then STOP! the great thing about nursing is that you can work in so many different areas in various settings. If you want to do NICU you should definitely look into shadowing...but I reccomend working on a postpartum mother/baby...

When living near Washington, DC as a new grad my base was $21.35/hr (that was changed to $24 a year after I started). Rent on my one bed apt. was $1250. Average price of a 3 bed townhome was $400,000-500,000. Forget a single family house for under $6...

oh also...Liam...which is a fine name if your last name doesn't happen to be Bean!

Harry Wang. I swear. i just thought Harry was funny and then the pediatrician started laughing and then i got it.

OMG, for a second i was sure we worked at the same place! i would consider leaving, maybe doing something outside of the hospital-school nursing, health dept, something like that, you certainly have the experience to do it. but seriously, administrat...

I don't live in greenville or spartanburg, but i went to nursing school at Clemson, which is about 30 minutes from g-ville (before moving here you must choose Clemson or USC, there is no neutral here! :-) ) after graduating and moving back to virgin...

i understand your pain. i too am terrible at chemistry. i think it totally depends on the teacher you get. i ended up taking chem 1, 3 times. and it didn't make a bit of difference. i have yet to be denied my first choice job based on my chemistry g...

fortunately/unfortunately they both sound like really good hours to me. i just personally would take the 8-12 just because i can't stand that feeling of being irritated that i still have to go to work later when my family is home relaxing, going to b...

personally the CNA's at my work who are going to LPN or RN school often make the comments when asked where they want to work when they graduate often say they do not want to work in postpartum where they are currently because all the nurses do is "ch...

i agree with everyone else that it is the parents right to watch whatever they want. however many of them want to watch the circ and VIDEOTAPE! it. who in the world wants to sit around and watch the kids circ on tape? many of the ob's feel the parent...

people at my work, including myself sometimes unfortunately had a tendency to get a little "burned out" on students. some semesters we would have 10 students per day on a 26 bed unit all five week days. the most frustrating thing for me though was wh...

i think that many OB doctors don't even realize their patients are getting as much fluid as they are post delivery, vag or c/s because they don't bother to write a d/c IV or hep lock order. therefore the fluids technically should be continued indefin...

i work in ob so i was also totally in disbelief when i was floated to peds and had a 5 years old that was bipolar (and had been for a while) and the parents were also both bipolar. i wondered if this little boy truly was bipolar or was misdiagnosed d...

I just accepted a job in L&D, I start in 3 weeks, and only get 8 weeks of orientation. Any suggestions for books specifically about labor and delivery (I already know the PP stuff)? I would like to brush up on those things since it has been 4 yea...