IndigoCarmine

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  1. L&D traveller panic-stricken about the economy

    IndigoCarmine replied to IndigoCarmine's topic in Travel

    My recruiter (of one of those four companies you mentioned) has zero in the Miami area. Zero. It's killing me. She found a job in SF but I don't think I can cram ACLS and Advanced Fetal Monitoring in...

  2. Job poll

    IndigoCarmine replied to odyssey1997's topic in Travel

    1. Now working in NYC 2. Just under a year. 3. The NYC job came easily, and overall the experience has been smooth. The job is rough at this particular hospital, but the overall traveling nurse...

  3. NY, NY hospitals

    IndigoCarmine replied to MistyDawnRN06's topic in Travel

    @LilyRoseRN although there is a BC at Roosevelt, travellers are very seldom sent there because they are not oriented to that unit. Occasionally they're floated down there to do an admission of a 2nd...

  4. L&D traveller panic-stricken about the economy

    IndigoCarmine replied to IndigoCarmine's topic in Travel

    Yeah, I think the "large companies" thing is going to become a problem for me. I work for a smaller company and really, really like working with them. They don't wait for me to call -- the contact me...

  5. Floating too much?

    IndigoCarmine replied to Ashes's topic in Travel

    My biggest fear in life is floating. At my last job for some bizzarro reason they'd float us L&D nurses to peds and even peds ICU. NOT COOL!! In fact, they were known for sending a nursery RN to...

  6. NY, NY hospitals

    IndigoCarmine replied to MistyDawnRN06's topic in Travel

    NYU, St Lukes/Roosevelt, Methodist, Lutheran, Bellevue and Pres all take travellers. I don't know your specialty but I've heard terrible things about NYU L&D/PP. Don't limit yourself to Manhattan...

  7. Vitamin K administration legal/ethical nightmare!

    IndigoCarmine posted a topic in Ob/Gyn

    Picture this: your pt shows up with a birthing plan that includes "no vaccines for baby, including Vitamin K" but you know that VitK is a state requirement. Period. Aside from it being hospital policy...

  8. Vitamin K administration legal/ethical nightmare!

    IndigoCarmine replied to IndigoCarmine's topic in Ob/Gyn

    Unbelieveably, this happened again just yesterday. Yucky for everyone involved. 1. Took report on pt at 9cm refusing VitK. Not one but two pediatricians counseled the pt, and extensive notes were...

  9. Vitamin K administration legal/ethical nightmare!

    IndigoCarmine replied to IndigoCarmine's topic in Ob/Gyn

    For the record (I'm the OP), we do the baby med in the delivery room. Most of the nurses I work with administer them while the baby is still on Mom's chest. Unless peds is present or there's some real...

  10. Don't know if I'm going to make it as an OB nurse

    IndigoCarmine replied to Calzonan RN's topic in Ob/Gyn

  11. AWHONN Staffing Guidelines Please check this out:

    IndigoCarmine replied to SmilingBluEyes's topic in Ob/Gyn

    Hmmm... When I worked on PP we *definitely* each had upwards of 7 couplets and frequently no tech or aide, and it was reeeaaaaaly difficult. very little teaching going on there. Four sounds like...

  12. Vitamin K administration legal/ethical nightmare!

    IndigoCarmine replied to IndigoCarmine's topic in Ob/Gyn

    Our only hurry is the

  13. Vitamin K administration legal/ethical nightmare!

    IndigoCarmine replied to IndigoCarmine's topic in Ob/Gyn

    Where I work now it is done in the delivery room, although that's not the NY state norm. At my last job all the babies were admitted via the nursery and not L&D. The VitK/erythro mandate forced...

  14. 1st NYC Travel Assignment--How's my pay?

    IndigoCarmine posted a topic in Travel

    I'm new to travel nursing and wanted out of my permanent job so very badly that I didn't particularly negotiate my contract. I basically just said "yes, yes, I'll take it!". All I was really looking...

  15. Vitamin K administration legal/ethical nightmare!

    IndigoCarmine replied to IndigoCarmine's topic in Ob/Gyn

    Thanks so much for all your responses. I'm in New York State where Vitamin K is mandated, unlike vaccines which can be refused. Seems that the law was based on this study (the link is to an abstract....

  16. AWHONN Staffing Guidelines Please check this out:

    IndigoCarmine replied to SmilingBluEyes's topic in Ob/Gyn

    They seem to pretty much stick to this at my new travel position, but on shifts where there are few spare hands (which is most shifts) it can wreak havoc on nurses, pts and MDs alike when it comes to...

  17. Don't know if I'm going to make it as an OB nurse

    IndigoCarmine replied to Calzonan RN's topic in Ob/Gyn

    Oh, lady. Been there. Felt that. Big time. I went straight into OB out of nursing school. Four months of postpartum (ugh) then right to L&D as soon as a position was available. It was all I'd ever...

  18. 1st NYC Travel Assignment--How's my pay?

    IndigoCarmine replied to IndigoCarmine's topic in Travel

    Yeah, I've worked in NYC for five years, so I have an idea of what staff nurses make here, and you're right, the housing compensation has a lot to do with the lower hourly wage. But still, I'm...

  19. I want to move to NYC after I graduate

    IndigoCarmine replied to myrose's topic in New York Nursing

    As a native New Yorker who grew up in Manhattan and has been an RN in NYC for five years I can tell you right now that under no circumstances can you live in Manhattan with a child on an RN salary...