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Hi All! I have been doing a lot of reading about shoulder dystocia but have yet (knock on wood) to assist in a dystocia delivery. I would be very interested in hearing about such an experience, what worked/didn't work, what the most critical issues ...

I was a new grad in 2009. The only unit I ever wanted to work on and the only reason I went to nursing school was to be a labor & delivery nurse. Nobody around here hires new grads into OB, but I managed to get the attention of a wonderful OB d...

This may sound like a stupid question, but I'm a new OB nurse and I am confused about something. When we are inducing our patients, we usually have 1000 ml LR's as a main line infusing at about 125 ml/hr. The Pitocin runs on it's own pump starting o...

These posts are so helpful, as I'm familiar with the maneuvers but as of yet haven't had the opportunity to use them - I know that there are no stepping stools in our L&D rooms. I'm going to bring this up with our director when I go in on Wednes...

Thank you all! Very helpful!

Thanks all for your great responses! I feel better knowing that my thought processes were correct after all. As a new OB nurse, I'm discovering how differently some of the nurses on my unit do the same things - this is such a great place to access e...

Thank you! That's what I thought and have been doing and then a nurse scared the bejeezus out of me when she told me to never ever mainline pit! Whew! I'm so relieved!

I will be starting my new job in L&D in a few weeks and I am BEYOND excited! At the same time, I'm really nervous. I've been reviewing a few L&D textbooks and reading up, but I know it's going to be baptism by fire anyway. I'm hoping that a...

Thank you all for your great advice! I have also read an entire L&D textbook cover-to-cover as well as an intermediate FHR monitoring book. I have no disillusions that I'll go in knowing everything - I know things can get crazy and split second...

Thanks so much for your great advice rayshanna! I will definitely follow it. I'm a relatively new nurse. I've been working in the surgical rehab unit for less than a year, so I'm quite nervous. However, I went back to nursing school with one focus...

Could someone walk me through the protocol/process for checking peg tube placement and subsequently administering meds through the tube? I did this once in Nursing 1, but it's been a while and now I can't remember the exact order/details! Help! Thank...