cubbynurse

Where I work, if the parents have consented for a circ the baby will be circ'd before discharge. The RN assigned to that mother/baby couplet is responsible for setting up the circ room, applying the emla cream or drawing up the lidocaine, and settin...

I passed boards June 23rd and started work on a High Risk OB floor July 28th. I had a good relaxing time off to review (yep, I took my books to the beach!) and I'm really enjoying work. I have 7 more weeks of orientation but my preceptor has really...

I am a new OB nurse (High Risk Antepartum/Postpartum) and I am about to start week 5 of 12 of orientation. I recently cared for a patient with preeclampsia who had been treated with magnesium. She is a healthcare professional but not in the OB fiel...

I am having two issues currently during orientation and I don't know how to go about either of them. Issue #1: I'm not sure if my preceptor is always following proper procedure. Sometimes my preceptor will do something that she has recently told me ...

I felt pretty confident when I finished the exam and walked out.....it took me several tries to type my credit card number in correctly for my results 48 hours later though because my hands were shaking and I had barely slept. That confidence defini...

I would say that it would be critical to have another nurse show you (and possibly multiple times) how to properly check for clonus. I just started on a high risk antepartum/postpartum unit and many of our moms have PIH/Pre-X, so we check for it oft...

I definitely hear what you're saying....I'm terrified at the thought of delegating. I worked as a Nursing Assistant on the same unit where I am now a nurse. Unfortunately, some of the NA's consider some RN's "lazy" when they delegate. They see the...

Can anyone tell me what is involved in becoming chemo certified? Thanks!

K new grad here so I've got a few questions :) I was recently informed that I will need to become chemo-certified for work so that I can give methotrexate for ectopic pregnancies and chemo to our pregnant patients with cancer. Has anyone ever been r...

That'll be a great story for him to tell his baby when baby gets a bit older!

Not a thought, but a question....what do you mean by "no cord"? Does the cord detach when the baby dies in utero? Sorry if this sounds stupid...

i just finished week 1 of my 12 week orientation. for the first 8 weeks i am 40 hours/week and then weeks 9-12 i drop down to 32 hours (what i got hired for)

i don't think it necessarily indicates a potential problem with the hospital....as an update, i was incorrect in calling it a signing bonus apparently. thats how it was described by the recruiter but the person who processes it in HR (who i was talk...

Look into it for your state...I was told that in IL there was no opportunity to work as a "nurse" until you had passed boards (new nurse practice act as of 1/1/08), so "graduate nurse" was not an option for me.

All I will say to that is that vents were not as scary as I expected....I did my role transition/final rotation of school in a NICU and was terrified to get a ventilated baby. I was absolutely positively shaking when I had to suction for the first t...

Congrats!

Hi, I'm Renee :) I graduated in May and took NCLEX in June...I'll be starting on a High Risk OB/Gyne unit at the end of this month. :heartbeat

Although my hospital does hire new grads into OB, this is a relatively new policy, so many of the nurses on the unit have transferred from Med-Surg units. They all say that it was a valuable experience because even in OB you see Med-Surg conditions-...

Just another tip- if you are ever on your unit and your preceptor is out, you might be able to be assigned a secondary preceptor. I start orientation in 2 weeks and my preceptor is only part time....so when she is not there I will be with another ex...

I was working as a nursing assistant while in school and studying....was not being pressured so much by my manager as by the nurses. They were always supportive but just kept asking over and over "so when do you take boards???" "have you been studyi...

i did not work there but did my mental health clinicals at hines....obviously did not see much of the medical portion of the facility but was extremely impressed with the wide variety of mental health programs they had.

do you have to go back to schaumburg to pick up your results since you tested there? or just to be fingerprinted and give your signature? will they let you go to another testing location?

i did not personally but i did know of some people whose results were not posted until about 8 hours after they expected them to be there. i know its not the best thing in the world when you have been counting down to this time, but hopefully it is a...

congrats!!!!!

Hi everyone- I am going to be starting as a RN on a high risk antepartum/postpartum floor in 2 weeks and am reviewing common medications given on the floor. I have been a nursing assistant on the floor for my last year of school and know that many o...