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micmac

L&D, infertility, Level 2 nursery

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  1. Perinatal Clinical Nurse Specialist

    micmac posted a topic in Clinical Nurse Specialists, CNS

    Anyone with experience working with or as a perinatal CNS? I am considering moving in this direction after working in L&D for 10 yrs. Don't want to be a CNM...to much call and liability. What...

  2. Let's hear your best birthing stories!

    micmac posted a topic in Ob/Gyn

    Would love to hear some great birthing stories...funny, inspirational, memorable, you name

  3. Going up against a doc...

    micmac replied to MalgaBSN's topic in Ob/Gyn

    Oh, Kristin, that made my stomach hurt. I hate stuff like that...when they pull rank and humiliate you...especially in front of a pt. I have taken a provider aside and said, "We may have our...

  4. Let's hear your best birthing stories!

    micmac replied to micmac's topic in Ob/Gyn

    What a wonderful story...thank you so much for sharing

  5. Let's hear your best birthing stories!

    micmac replied to micmac's topic in Ob/Gyn

    Gotta love those precips...we had a lady deliver while standing at the nurse's station fully clothed...the baby came out of the leg of her shorts and the OB had to jump up from the desk to catch it as...

  6. Let's hear your best birthing stories!

    micmac replied to micmac's topic in Ob/Gyn

    We had a patient walk in one day who had been contracting for awhile. Nurse J. took her to a triage room to change and leave a urine sample and went back to the nurse's station. A few minutes later,...

  7. Going up against a doc...

    micmac replied to MalgaBSN's topic in Ob/Gyn

    We had to fudge our exams a lot until the docs bought into the idea of laboring down...thank god they finally got what we had been doing all

  8. I never imagined...

    micmac replied to CrunchyLaborRN's topic in Ob/Gyn

    What does purpsurfer mean? (sorry, guess I'm just an old gal!) I honestly think that everyone goes into L&D with a very idealistic notion of what it will be like (myself included, believe me!)...

  9. RNC program for OB

    micmac replied to L&D.RN's topic in Ob/Gyn

    I studied a book called Intrapartum Management Modules (can't find it right now to give you the author!)...I did this independently for a few months before the exam. I had been working in an LDRP...

  10. Med-Surg before Mother/Baby as a New Grad?

    micmac replied to Finally2008's topic in Ob/Gyn

    I agree with above...I went straight to LDRP after school and never looked back! And that was 10 years ago (when I had to BEG to get into a specialty area without

  11. Perinatal Clinical Nurse Specialist

    micmac replied to micmac's topic in Clinical Nurse Specialists, CNS

    Thanks so much...it is very helpful to hear your thoughts. I get closer every day to filling out the application!

  12. How to do 12 hour shift and raise a kid??

    micmac replied to mp2005's topic in Ob/Gyn

    I work 2 12-hour nights, which has been great for me. My kids are 2, 3, and 7...I work 7P-7A, then take the little ones to daycare the next day. I sleep until the 7 yr old gets off the bus, and then...