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I'm going tomorrow to attend the info session and find out what I can - thanks, nursegreen for the reply. :) If anyone else reading is either checking out or actually attending USF for NP - I'd love to hear feedback about your thoughts on the program/admittance/etc.

Bumping this thread - would like to also hear any experiences with USF's NP programs!

I'm in your boat too - several years in L&D, and ever since I learned to do SVE's, I've prided myself in being accurate and even in being able to find the cervix "way back in her tonsils" if you know what I mean - and I too recently had this happen. I checked a patient and could not feel any cervix or margins, so I got the whole delivery team in the room, called the doc in, she got dressed, ready to catch because 'mom' was feeling that great urge - only to discover we were only 6 cms! ACK :imbar I was mortified, felt very foolish, and wanted to crawl in a hole. I was so lucky this happened with a 'nice doc' instead of one of the primadonnas, and I'm also glad it happened to me now after all this time, just to give me a reality check. Like the other poster said, we're not perfect - and even during a routine procedure, we may not be right. I'm also glad it happened with this much time under my belt, because had this happened early in my career, I might not have handled it nearly so well. Yes, I'm a former "cryer" - a defense mechanism from embarrassment or criticism or feeling of ineptitude. It might have ran me off from the whole game if it had happened way back when. It's not easy for you to 'let it go' - but your manager and the doc are right - move on, and chalk it up to a reminder that you're human. I'll bet you're going to be very 'spot on' with those SVE's now!