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We deliver approx 1000 babies/yr. We all believe that there should be 24hr rooming in...my question is anyone else doing some type of alternative mother/baby care from the nurses point of view? For example...there would be a PP nurse that rounded on the pt, and there would be 2 personal in the nsy, one being an RN that would go out and round on the babies, handle questions about breastfeeding, go to deliveries, talk with the pediatricians etc. The way we're doing it it seems that things are getting missed with the babies. No one seems to be happy with M/B care, the nurses, the pediatricians etc...but need something evidence based to get managment to let us try an alternative plan. our nsy,pp unit and L&D are all on one connected unit....staff on the floor could get pulled to L&D or the Nsy if an emergency occurs leaving the couplet to another nurse who may already have there max . We also take GYN/ and clean/simple surgical pts. also how do any of you handle walking rounds...our nurses feel they need to hear about all pts for the above reason, not just their own assignment...which is understandable, if your going to take on additional pts for whatever reason and haven't gotten report it's a liability. thanks for any information you might have !!!!