SewHeather

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1. New educator feeling a little discouraged

   SewHeather replied to SewHeather's topic in Educators

   Bosnanurse, I understand what you're saying about sticking with it, but there are times when you have to take your losses and move on. I am at the point where I am considering just taking my losses. Some things are not worth the heartache. When I s...

2. New educator feeling a little discouraged

   SewHeather posted a topic in Educators

   Hi All! I am a RN with 3 years of experience in OB and have recently been hired at a for profit college with the vocational nursing program. I was originally hired for a per diem clinincal intructor position but during the process of being approved, ...

3. Can you give me the darkside of working as a RN

   SewHeather replied to hathead91's topic in General Nursing

   Had a patient bite me in the shoulder when she was pushing. It drew blood so I had to get the full round of testing. I understand that being in labor is painfull and stressfull but that seemed a little over the top. But I did manage to refrain fro...

4. What does surgry nurse do!!!

   SewHeather replied to esthomprn's topic in General Nursing

   I'm an L&D nurse and I hear that alot;" Labor nurses aren't real nurses". My favorite part of being a labor RN is circulating for cesarean sections. Been thinking of making the jump to the OR since I like it so much.

5. Newborn Hypoglycemia Protocols?

   SewHeather replied to nurseinnh's topic in Ob/Gyn

   ours is very similar, except when we have 2 consecutive readings above 45, we can discontinue to heel sticks unless we have any reason to recheck it, ie jitteriness, unwilling to eat, lethargy, etc... Checking every three hours after a few good reas...

6. Vistaril in labor induction

   SewHeather posted a topic in Ob/Gyn

   I'm curious, has anyone had a labor induction patient that was prescribed vistaril to help them sleep? At my facility, we have a few midwives that prescribe Vistaril for their inductions, but only if they come in for their scheduled induction on the...

7. How long was your L&D orientation?

   SewHeather replied to SewHeather's topic in Ob/Gyn

   Thank you for your replies! Wow, I'm beginning to feel really ripped off for my orientation. I have actually been in this position for a year and a half now, but it has been so busy lately (I will often times do 2 or 3 deliveries each shift), that I...

8. How long was your L&D orientation?

   SewHeather posted a topic in Ob/Gyn

   I'm curious as to how long everyone's orientation was to labor and delivery. I had a six week orientation for my unit and was expected to be proficient with two laboring patients and circulating for c sections. Does this sound about right or was th...

9. Are you feeling effects of the economy on nursing?

   SewHeather replied to kjp1962's topic in General Nursing

   Title: RN status: Full time, staff (non-traveler) Category: acute care hospital Specialty: LDRP # of beds in the unit:38 Geographics: Arizona How has your facility or department been affected?: we don't seem to be feeling the recession at all, I usu...

10. *Weird* Patient Allergies

    SewHeather replied to cherrybreeze's topic in General Nursing

    Had a labor pt who said she was allergic to the dyes used in pills and couldn't possibly take the synthroid I was trying to give her as it would cause her throat to swell. Mind you she told me all this while she was eating an enormous bag of M&M...

11. L&D Staffing Ratios

    SewHeather posted a topic in Ob/Gyn

    I have been working in L&D for just about a year now and I was wondering how many laboring patients do you take at a time and where do you work? I usually have 2 patients at a time and it doesn't seem to matter what stage they are in. There hav...

12. nurse patient ratio

    SewHeather replied to trmr's topic in General Nursing

    You have 8 post partum patients?!?!? Please tell me you are incorporating the infant in that count. On our MB unit we care for 4 couplets on average and 5 if it's packed and short staffed. I can't imagine that I would be able to give decent care w...

13. post partum patient

    SewHeather replied to johnc.'s topic in General Nursing

    At the risk of sounding stupid.......what does "ncp for a post-nsd" mean?

14. Newborn temps

    SewHeather replied to lmc512's topic in Ob/Gyn

    Our unit's policy is try a variety of things if the infant's temp is below 97.6, such as skin to skin contact, double wrapped in warm blankets or placing under the warmer. We are only to take a blood sugar if there are more hypoglycemia symptoms such...

15. From the experts: How do you treat a winter COLD?

    SewHeather replied to CaLLaCoDe's topic in General Nursing

    How do you treat a winter cold? The same way you treat a spring, summer or fall cold! Bah da, bah!