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Our unit of course has a nasty OB too. This Doctor will FIND something to correct you on. I've never had a delivery with this doctor where she didn't point out something really stupid that SHE thinks is wrong or could be done better. It's so frustrating. I try to "kill her with kindness" Funny think is...this OB use to be a nurse.

Hi, I have been a L&D /Womens Services nurse for 5 years and am thinking of going back to school for my MSN. I am thinking of nursing education and/or nursing administration. I'm defintely ready for a change. So here are a few questions for you folks..... What are some of the best/well respected online MSN programs? Is the salary greater for a nurse educator (in say a college setting) better than bedside nursing? What are some of the pros/cons in being a nurse educator? Thanks

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Hi, I previously posted the thread about our labor nurses floating to med-surg and possible infection issues....thanks by the way to all who replied. Here is the other issue and I wanted some more advice. Not only are we concerned as labor nurses about the whole infection control issue (which by the way we are expected to float to med-surg when needed and then float back at moments notice for labor patients) but most of us have been labor nurses for most of our nursing careers and are being forced to float to med-surg without any orientation/training. I remember the day I went was a disaster, I wasn't familiar with many of the drugs I was giving (no time to look them up either because all the meds were already late), I wasn't familiar with any of the policies/procedures, I couldn't not answer questions for patients and their famililes because I didn't know. It was a sinking and scary feeling to not have a clue whats going on. I feel like this is unsafe practice. It seems that if you are an alive warm body then thats good enough for med-surg...who cares if you're actually competent. We have tried and tried to fight this....our unit director does not care. We've even tried to go up the chain of command and we just don't get very far. Many of us are in the process of calling the ethics hotline about this issue and feel we have no where else to turn. We are being forced to go to med-surg and are threatend with our jobs if we try to refuse to go. Does anyone else know who else we can turn to about this? And if I were terminated because of refusing to go to med-surg would there be any legal action I could take?

Our Labor and Delivery Unit is having to float to MS...isn't this against guidelines because of infection issues with the newborns and all? Everywhere else I have ever worked it was against policy for L&D nurses to float to another unit as well as have nurses from other units float in and was considered "cross contaminating" Does anyone else have any thoughts on this? It is a HUGE problem on our unit.