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  1. Uniform Advantage!

    palesarah replied to purple_rose_3's topic in Scrubs, Uniforms, Gear

    I've purchased scrubs from them many times (great prices), I'd say the scrubs run normal, but many of their pants styles are cut to fit a little snugger (but it's pretty obvious which ones from the...

  2. I was attacked by a catipiller!

    palesarah replied to HeartsOpenWide's topic in General Nursing

    The woolly bear ones never bothered me but when I was a kid I used to get rashes from playing with gyspy moth caterpillars. I didn't get major hives, but it was a horrible itchy raised rash anywhere...

  3. Merit Raises? What is your annual raise?

    palesarah replied to geekgolightly's topic in General Nursing

    The hospital I worked at (left my job about 3 weeks ago), was not amgnet hospital, non-profit, not a teaching hospital- merit raises were 0-5% annually based on performance, they also did salary...

  4. Do I need therapy????

    palesarah replied to pugsweluv's topic in First Year After Licensure

    Labor & Delivery in My Pocket is a great pocket reference for L&D- I think the website is http://www.inmypocketbooks.com. I think what you're going through is pretty normal; it takes most...

  5. Effect of Mom's Pain Meds?

    palesarah replied to JaneyW's topic in NICU, Neonatal

    Why is it always elephants with stadol? Pink elephants, white elephants, polka-dot elephants...

  6. When circ's go bad...

    palesarah replied to newgrad2005's topic in Ob/Gyn

    yeep, I was directing that at you, I guess I forgot to quote your post! ooops :imbar ! Thanks for your response. Sounds like your little man is quite a

  7. question

    palesarah replied to newnurse.rs's topic in Ob/Gyn

    NOt sure what PSU is? When I oriented to L&D (that incuded triage) my initial 12 weeks was not enough, I ended up going back for another 2 months of orientation. A lot of it depends (at my old...

  8. When circ's go bad...

    palesarah replied to newgrad2005's topic in Ob/Gyn

    were you present for your son's circ? I didn't assist with them at my previous job, for ethical reasons, but I was present (in the nursery, doing something else) for many, many circs. It was very...

  9. ...and a side order of placenta please

    palesarah replied to HeartsOpenWide's topic in Ob/Gyn

    never had any patients who wanted to eat it, although I "know people who know people" who have- when I was taking a holistic labor assistant course, one of the girls in class told a story of a...

  10. Epidural management in labor

    palesarah replied to Mythreeangels's topic in General Nursing

    our state BON allows nurses to program, turn on, turn off, change rates, so at the hospital I worked at, we did it. In fact, the anethesia orders allowed us a lot of leeway to increase/decrease; we...

  11. Gifts for clinical instructors?

    palesarah replied to Cowboys_RN's topic in General Students

    the only gift I can remember any of my clinical groups giving an instructor, besides cards and last-day snacks for everyone, was a pin. One of the other students picked up an inexpensive (I think it...

  12. ER Dept Scrub Color

    palesarah replied to blufoxtrot's topic in Emergency

    at the last hospital I worked at, the nurses wore scrubs (anything; OR was the only dept to wear hospital scrubs) and housekeeping & dietary wore uniforms. They didn't like it but the nurses...

  13. OBTV -vs- GE QS system

    palesarah replied to obosoon's topic in Ob/Gyn

    we just went live with OB Tracevue last February- I actually left my OB position last week, but when I was there, I loved using it. Very user-friendly, even easy for the computer challenged nurses to...

  14. Turning off your beeper while charting. Wrong or Right? Vote Now.

    palesarah replied to DutchgirlRN's topic in General Nursing

    If the beeper is the main way of locating/communicating with the nurse, then yes, it is wrong and should be

  15. Do your Dr.s come for FD delivery?

    palesarah replied to LizzyL&DRN's topic in Ob/Gyn

    absolutely, our docs & midwives are present for these deliveries, and they are absolutely amazing with the patients. Besides needing the reassurance of having someone familiar at the bedside...

  16. Staffing question

    palesarah replied to broncopooh's topic in Ob/Gyn

    We never staff with fewer than 2 experienced/skilled nurses, and I think usually keep at least 3 nurses on. I can't recall a night where we didn't have any patients at all, but can thin kof at least...

  17. Ob Icu

    palesarah replied to obnurse2004's topic in Ob/Gyn

    A traveler who was working on my floor when I first started had worked in an OB ICU at one point; if I remember right they took both very high risk/very sick antepartums and high risk/sick...

  18. taking FMLA on intermittent basis...anyone done this?

    palesarah replied to rehab nurse's topic in General Nursing

    When my doc filled out the papers, he specified that it was for migraine headaches. My supervisor had actually suggested I file for FMLA to protect my

  19. Iufd/miscarriage

    palesarah replied to swimminupstream's topic in Ob/Gyn

    thanks for the link! That is the same organization we get our materials, memory boxes, etc from. One of our nurses also collected a large number of seashells and we make plaster footprints or...

  20. taking FMLA on intermittent basis...anyone done this?

    palesarah replied to rehab nurse's topic in General Nursing

    I filed for intermittent FMLA for migraines, but my HR deptartment pretty much took care of it for me- they gave me the required papers, I took them to my doc to have them filled out, then handed them...

  21. Iufd/miscarriage

    palesarah replied to swimminupstream's topic in Ob/Gyn

    one of our nurses has put together a great collection of resources/handouts for our patients, and I think most of them come from one company- next time I work I'll try to get the name and contact info...

  22. Analgesia with IV Start

    palesarah replied to ogrern2002's topic in Infusion, Intravenous

    It's policy for us to use a local anesthetic, we use lidocaine on our floor, but the rest of the hospital uses bacteriostatic NS. A little "bee sting" to avoid the discomfort of an 18gauge IV start...

  23. GBS Status: Unknown

    palesarah replied to camay1221_RN's topic in Ob/Gyn

    We follow the CDC algorhythms for GBS management- so no, if a woman is GBS unknown, she does not automatically receive antibiotics in labor at my facility; we only treat if risk factors are

  24. How to achieve OB RN Certification

    palesarah replied to mombabynurse's topic in Ob/Gyn

    Don't want to speak for anyone, but I think she was making a joke about a (presumed) typo- iMpatient OB vs the correct iNpatient

  25. People Asking Questions About Adoption in L&D

    palesarah replied to BabyRN2Be's topic in Ob/Gyn

    Some people are just clueless. If anyone came to us asking questions like that, not only would we call security, we'd also call the