birthrevolution

The policy at our hospital is to not bath the babies (or separate them from mom) for at least six hours after birth. Then the bath is done in the room with the parents and the baby is rewarmed by placing babe skin to skin with mom. A little sign goe...

I'm planning to apply in 2012! I'm excited! I'm just trying to figure out exactly how I will pay for it :)

We have to chart in the (paper) MAR and in the actual (electronic) chart in the pain assessment. It's double charting, but they will probably do it this way until we switch to electronic MARs Oh, I just noticed this was LTC nursing, I'm in acute care...

I have no idea how your hospital could not count babies in its census! Our floor counts newborns and moms, they each have separate charts and MRNs. I don't understand your concern about moms dropping babies at night, that seems so random. I mean, i...

Our graduation was just the School of Nursing, I might have had a different opinion on "pinning" if it was the whole University. Then I definitely would not have gone to graduation!

I didn't want to go to mine, but they combined it with graduation. Walk across the stage, shake the Dean's hand, get pinned by a faculty member, go back to your seat. I probably wouldn't have gone to graduation, but my parents came and all of my frie...

The units where I am right now get along pretty well for the most part. We have gone through a lot over the last year with the transition to couplet care, which impacted L&D more than expected. I think that people ended up working together a lot ...

Awesome! I ran a similar program almost ten years ago (!) except we did 3 hour in person trainings. We could never really get the time to train clinical staff like RNs and MDs, and focused mostly on LTC facilities, senior service providers (adult day...

Perhaps you should consider taking a BLS or ACLS refresher course. I would also become familiar with my hospital's protocols for Rapid Response and Code Blue-if you are still in orientation do you have a clinical mentor you could ask?

She should definitely look in to getting a doula for the birth. The Birth Partner is a great book and pretty much any book by Penny Simkin would be useful. Ricki Lake put out a book called "Your Best Birth" that is supposed to be good as well. Sheila...

Reading your post I was thinking "Wow this sounds like X hospital!". I went and checked your profile and based on where you say your location is, I'm pretty sure I've heard complaints from Mom/Baby nurses at your hospital and the LCs as well. Another...

Generally you do, I have a pretty significant background in women's health and health-care and feel comfortable applying without it at this point in time. The programs I'm interested in all say they prefer L&D, but there are nurses in the program...

Thanks! I'm thinking that I will probably just go straight to midwifery school and not do L&D since I think being an L&D nurse would drive me . The "plan" is to work my Adult Medicine job for a year and then do Lactation Consulting while I'm ...

Yup, it's pretty awesome! Some moms are like "ew, why would I give some strange woman's milk to my baby?" We bite our tongues, but I really want to say "and you're okay with giving some strange cow's milk to your baby?" It's a relatively new option ...

I had the same questions, but in the end it didn't matter! I applied to all the open L&D/Maternity Care New Grad positions that I could, but didn't get an interview for one. I also really only wanted to work at the hospital where I'm currently tr...

For a baby with hypoglycemia we do skin to skin with moms and hand express colostrum. The colostrum can be fed in a spoon or via syringe. Colostrum works better at bringing up blood sugar than formula! If we cannot express colostrum then we should (b...

It was probably the warm water flush that did it, not the candling. I got the same results after noticing a complete impaction in my partner's ear and just flushing with warm water. Man, was that thing gross when it came out! But SOOOO cool!

I'm looking at next winter term. I'm also considering ECU since it's in-state tuition for me and WAY cheaper. However Frontier will consider "other significant experience in healthcare" if you don't have one year of nursing experience and also won't ...

What organization is supposed to accredit them? I know of at least two Executive MHA/MPH programs that are well respected and the majority of the work is online. This allows career professionals to work and get their Master's degree.

Airway Breathing Circulation In the case of elevated BP and elevated HR intervening in one would impact the other. I can't think of a time when I've been asked to choose between BP or HR as a priority with both of them being crappy (and I just studi...

I too find nursing theory dumb and I'm pretty into theory. I rolled my eyes through most of our lectures on this stuff. I also bit my tongue until it bled wanting to scream "that's not theory!" or "Foucault would really disagree with that." Get thro...

When you say "you can't work at the same place where you do your clinicals" does that mean same unit? floor? hospital? I am considering Frontier for next winter term, I'm starting on a medicine unit, but am hoping to transfer to Mom/Baby or Lactation...

I would go for the BSN route, that will leave less work to do when have to get your MSN! Not to mention that the BSN program just sounds like a better program in general. You want good clinical experiences, especially in Med-Surg before you head into...

UNC does: http://nursing.unc.edu/degree/msn/wh.html I also think that you could qualify for in-state tuition through the Academic Common Market: http://www.sreb.org/page/1304/academic_common_market.html

I do know that hospitals are hiring new grads, they're just slower than they used to be. I wouldn't get discouraged! From what I understand about Duke is that they have a ranking system where they give you points based on how many clinicals you did t...