PeggyCA10RN

YES, we always have a Nursery nurse at EVERY delivery and a PEDI if it is Thick Mec or some other medical reason to have one present, i.e. Vaccume delivery, IT IS THE STANDARD OF PRACTICE for the last year or so to ALWAYS have a nursery nurse that is IMN qualified not just a nurse that is NRP certified.

I have a Question....HOW DOES a nurse that is interested in IS get trained and certified, say in Epic. Our hospital bought it and we are using it in the clinic totally with no paper charting anymore. They say we are going live for inpatient and the whole hospital this summer. I've always wanted to go into IS and I LOVE the travel part of it as well as the training and teaching part of it. I worked for Meditec for a few months in 2000 when they had the big Y2K thing going on. I taught nurses in a Vet's Home on making care plans and charting. I loved it. Great money as well. Can anyone tell me how I'd get certified on my own if I wanted to pay for my own training OR what is the best way to transistion into this FROM BEDSIDE nursing. I've been a nurse for 26 yrs. and I am working in L & D right now.

I think everywhere is different, at our hospital we give 10 days of classroom and then 6 weeks with a preceptor. Usually 4 weeks on days and then two more weeks on whatever shift your going to be working. We try to have some kind of system and learning order but since you don't know what's coming through the door that is sometimes hard. Our hospital does average 300 births a month. Our doctor's are IN HOUSE 24 hrs a day. It's the only way I'd work. It still gets crazy but our goal is to have a baby in distress out in less then 5 min. (we have our own OR's on the floor) and our own recovery room. We also have our own anesthesia 24 hrs. a day as well. It still gets crazy and very stressful at times. The expectation at our hospital is doing your own delivery and recovery within 12 weeks alone. It takes about 6 months to feel more comfortable with C-Sec etc. but you can figure about 5 yrs. to feel comfortable with all the high risk and horrible things that can and do go wrong. Maternal deaths, DIC, etc. It's the stress of always having two lives in your hands. Hang in there it will get better with time. It's certainly never a BORING specialty!