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    Essential Oil Overkill

    LibraSunCNM replied to Kayauhs's topic in General Nursing

    Where in the world do you work? Sounds like a cluster. To me, the answer is complaining to management and getting policies in place to forbid their use. I recently mentioned in another thread that...
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    Evidence Base Research Shows...

    LibraSunCNM replied to hppygr8ful's topic in General Nursing

    Thank you for this!!! I was about to post, "Evidence-based research shows that 'evidence-based research' is the same as saying 'research-based research'." That phrase is like nails on a chalkboard to...
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    He Wanted to Practice Satanism for the Baby

    LibraSunCNM replied to Shookclays's topic in Ob/Gyn

    I'm a CNM and just started working at a birth center with a much whiter, "crunchier" population than my prior job. I have not been too familiar up until now with essential oils...Oh. My. GOD!...
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    Starting a Family as a CNM

    LibraSunCNM replied to Magmorie's topic in Certified Nurse-Midwives, CNM

    I waited until I finished school and had about 2 years of experience before trying to have kids. As fate would have it, it took me almost a year and some expensive reproductive technology to...
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    Consumer Reports Article - What Do You Think?

    LibraSunCNM replied to Dodongo's topic in Nurse Practitioners, NP

    I thought some info was a little strange---to me, mentioning DOs in the same paragraph as NDs makes DOs seem a lot more "alternative" than they really are, I personally view them as interchangeable...
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    RIP - Rosie the Riveter!

    LibraSunCNM replied to OldDude's topic in General Nursing

    Interesting story about how the real "Rosie" was mis-identified until only a few years ago: The Hunt for Naomi Parker Fraley, the Real Rosie the Riveter | Time My grandpa fought in WWII and I'll...
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    How much neonate care for CNM?

    LibraSunCNM replied to futurenurse1620's topic in Certified Nurse-Midwives, CNM

    Sorry babyNP---just saw that you posted at the same time as me earlier today! Totally missed it. I now get that she was referring to
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    How much neonate care for CNM?

    LibraSunCNM replied to futurenurse1620's topic in Certified Nurse-Midwives, CNM

    I'm not an NNP, I'm a CNM. CNMs can care for well newborns up to 1 month of life (although I don't know any who care for them beyond the first few days). NNPs care for sick babies in the...
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    NNP vs PNP vs CNM

    LibraSunCNM replied to futurenurse1620's topic in Student Nurse Practitioner

    Yes, I provide all of that care in the birth center
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    NNP vs PNP vs CNM

    LibraSunCNM replied to futurenurse1620's topic in Student Nurse Practitioner

    Birth centers are small facilities with space for women to both receive prenatal care and give birth. It's meant to be as "homey" as possible, while at the same time stocked with all of the supplies...
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    Different schedule options for CNM?

    LibraSunCNM replied to futurenurse1620's topic in Certified Nurse-Midwives, CNM

    Honestly the variety of employment settings and practice setups are so broad in midwifery it's hard to generalize. If you're more interested in shift work vs. taking call from home, your best bet...
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    How much neonate care for CNM?

    LibraSunCNM replied to futurenurse1620's topic in Certified Nurse-Midwives, CNM

    I just answered your post in the NP forum, didn't see this post until afterwards. Hope it was
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    NNP vs PNP vs CNM

    LibraSunCNM replied to futurenurse1620's topic in Student Nurse Practitioner

    I will chime in as a CNM---some CNMs do some newborn care, mostly CNMs who practice out of hospital birth. For example, I'm currently working at a freestanding birth center. We do the initial full...
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    OCNRN63

    LibraSunCNM replied to Kyrshamarks's topic in General Nursing

    OCNRN was an awesome contributor to this board. I knew from her posts the last few years that she'd been battling cancer, and I had been wondering how she was faring. Sending positive energy to her...
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    Peplau and interpersonal relations

    LibraSunCNM replied to Realist_'s topic in General Students

    This seems to have become quite the pattern on AN this
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    Beyond Bedside? Advanced Practice? Really?

    LibraSunCNM replied to EGspirit's topic in General Nursing

    Because by and large, bedside nursing is backbreaking, sometimes demoralizing, and often underappreciated work. It is also work that has drastically changed over the course of a generation or...
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    Fox News calls CNA a nurse

    LibraSunCNM replied to Emergent's topic in Nursing News

    Seems to be? I think that ship has officially sailed and become "is" as evidenced by the current occupant of the Oval Office. The CNA/RN thing annoys me too but there's nothing much we can do about...
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    Addressing the Predicted Nursing Shortage

    LibraSunCNM replied to traumaRUs's topic in General Nursing

    Hospitals *could* go back to that "old" style of training, but there is no financial incentive for them to do so, so I wouldn't hold your
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    Addressing the Predicted Nursing Shortage

    LibraSunCNM replied to traumaRUs's topic in General Nursing

    Thanks for the clarification (and no need to feel starstruck haha). I hear what you're saying and can agree somewhat, I just get saddened by hearing nurses attack higher education in nursing. I feel...
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    Addressing the Predicted Nursing Shortage

    LibraSunCNM replied to traumaRUs's topic in General Nursing

    Research, communication and leadership are USELESS for the bedside? Do you really believe
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    Addressing the Predicted Nursing Shortage

    LibraSunCNM replied to traumaRUs's topic in General Nursing

    Thank you for your sane, rational reply! Couldn't agree more. If you don't want to get a BSN, don't get one. If you've got an ADN, found an area of nursing where you're comfortable and a BSN truly...
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    Schedule for CNM

    LibraSunCNM replied to bwcnm's topic in Certified Nurse-Midwives, CNM

    Thank you so much for sharing your valuable experience. I haven't been that pioneering midwife before, but I suspected that a lot of the issues you described are what the OP might come up against, I...
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    Service Dogs Allowed in ISO?

    LibraSunCNM replied to NPbyDay's topic in General Nursing

    Lol! "Yes, yes you can have your dog present...at your home
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    I'm Sorry

    LibraSunCNM replied to vintagemother's topic in General Nursing

    Umm...you have ICE CREAM SANDWICHES for patients at your hospital?! I would be obese within
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    What is harder- nursing school or first year working?

    LibraSunCNM replied to BookishBelle's topic in General Nursing

    Working, hands down, particularly if you're working the night shift (unless you're one of those lucky people who thrive on