RNLaborNurse4U

RNLaborNurse4U

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  1. LDRP ~ outgoing or continuing trend?

    RNLaborNurse4U replied to dwetherelt's topic in Ob/Gyn

    Ok, I work at a large teaching hospital that does about this many births each month. How on earth are 42 LDRP rooms cost effective and space effective??? We have a limited space in the hospital -...

  2. Cervical dilitation

    RNLaborNurse4U replied to AmAnRN's topic in Ob/Gyn

    It's going to take lots and lots of practice to start to feel comfortable. I'm going on 3 years in L&D this spring, and I still have trouble, especially in the 4cm to 8cm range. I'm much...

  3. Meds during labor

    RNLaborNurse4U replied to verock's topic in Ob/Gyn

    > That was how I had my last baby (Aug 2003). I absolutely LOVE my patients that want to birth this way, provided that they are flexible in their birth plan, since most births do not go 100%...

  4. Deliveries

    RNLaborNurse4U replied to acuteobrn's topic in Ob/Gyn

    I had this happen to me in one of the 3 precip deliveries I have had to do as an RN in L&D. G2P0 - a labor eval (cervix unchanged in the 2 hrs that she had been there so far), who I had go into...

  5. AFHMPP w/o first taking FHMPP?

    RNLaborNurse4U replied to twinner's topic in Ob/Gyn

    I took the Fetal Heart Monitoring, Practice and Principles by AWHONN in the fall of 2001, just a few months after I graduated from nursing school and started right into L&D. At that point, I had...

  6. fundus checks

    RNLaborNurse4U replied to zacarias's topic in Ob/Gyn

    I don't remember being able to feel a fundus at all during nursing school!! So don't worry to much about it...it honestly does take practice and experience. I have worked in L&D/postpartum for 1...