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I have been completing our regular schedule and on-call schedule for our staff members. We do 12 hour call shifts/one for night mon-thurs(you can always pull from PP unit during day shift)/ two for the weekend day-night. I start alpabetical and go down the list and place each person with two call days for the entire month. Then the next month I start with what I left off with the previous month, and sometimes we get to miss a month on call, it works great!!!!! We had the same issues, people getting mad if they didnt get to sign it first. This way it saves all the fuss...:argue:

I think working in Med-surg is soooo beneficial. I would work so hard, 7-8 patients, giving tons of meds. It helped me in L&D, I was more comfortable, I knew what hard work was and didn't take it for granted like some. You do forget it, if you dont use it, but working on L&D/Post. is what I love and I'm satisfied.

I was a new nurse at the time on L&D and it was my friend who had a pt with AFE, the baby was delivered 3 minutes after the CLE and was not injured during the incident. The mother did survive only to have no nero intact. The family and staff felt horrible, that was the first time Iv'e ever seen the doctor cry so much for this mother...Sad, Sad:cry:

so, if you were to be placed on L&D and sometimes we are so busy that no one is able to help, how could you read a strip?place a FSE? circulate during c/s?put mom's on our monitor with the TOCO/US?complete pt care during a crash?

We had the option to pick any dept. for our preceptorship, and we were to include the 40 hours mandatory in med-surg. Mine was, med-surg as my primary and then I split my other with L&D and Nursery. This way it gives you more options to think about and which career path you might want to consider. This also helps the supervisor know that you had a little experince in that department.

I work in TN, and we have LPN's on L&D, they scrub,do babies(except the assessment), stock, start IV's, and put our mothers on the monitor. They are also used in postpartum, they get all vag. deliveries and 2nd day post c/s moms. We have couplet care with no nursery.

I have never had anyone from another department help us when we get SROM's and deliveries out the yang...no other employees are trained to take care of preg. moms. except us. The hospital cant stand that sometimes we are looking at the walls with nothing to do, but then again, we are open door to anybody.

Ive been an L&D nurse for 3 years now, we have been told to float to other departments, (ICU,ER,PEDS,MED-Surg) when we are slow. Our minimal limit is 4 RN's. We were asked recently to work in the ICU and take patients. We didn't refuse, but we informed our supervisor that our competency for this floor would lack in patient care and cause more harm than good for the patient. Being already on a specialty floor, does anyone know if we required to float with our experince being little to the environment?