MomBabyUnitRN

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I absolutely don't think it's wrong to tell them you can't take patients. How would a med/surg nurse like to come up to L/D and take a patient? I used to float to med/surg all the time early in my nursing career from a PP/L/D floor. I worked med/s...

It can be hard to forgive yourself when a med error is made. I still remember my first med error; gladly, it has faded over the decades. I had floated to another floor which was common back then. It was a written order, but at our small hospital, w...

Where I work, it's $800 per credit. My CNA class is a 4 credit class; so it's $3200 per semester. Some semesters are module classes meaning they may be only 8 weeks long or it could be a traditional 12 week semester. The clinical instructor gets 1...

What do you mean they oversold it?

I've been teaching high school CNA classes for about a year and a half. I love those kids! They are so much fun. These are 4 credit classes that they take through our professional-technical education program. Most of them are wanting to on to ear...

Hi fellow nurses... I'm in this class right now, and I can feel your pain so acutely. Is that Era III? Anyway... Just know that you're not alone in your painful feelings of reading and trying to understand this. :)

Oh my gosh... sorry, I just seen this! I have 46cu's left to get my MSN. I believe you have to 150cu's to get your MSN. My first term went very well. Booted up some classes from my next term to finish this one. I LOVE WGU!!

I go to WGU and have never had a course mentor that doesn't have a Ph.D. My student mentor has an MSN however. I know that there are course mentors that have MSN's, but they're generally not teaching or lecturing there. At least, this has been my ...

I am starting the first of July. I have two friends who have gone there. One completed her MSN and now teaches (at home) for WGU and one completed her BSN and works for public health. She is pregnant and will continue her education for her MSN at...

It's been a long time since I worked in a SNF, but it was against policy to get residents up before day shift. We didn't mind getting them dressed if they were already up, but to physically get them up and get them dressed was considered assault (I ...

Hi Rhonda. I work in L/D part time. I remember when I first started working there, we'd use oranges (baby's head) to apply fetal scalp leads. That orange would be in a box of course. And it would be held there by the instructors hand. That was...

We follow AWHONN as well.

Just curious to know your Group B protocol. Ours keeps changing and it's driving us nurses crazy.

I am pro -whatever the mom wants. If she wants to go natural, go for it. If she wants an epidural, go for it. I worked with a mom who wrote out a beautiful birthplan the other night. When her midwife suggested she try a whiff of pitocin to get th...

I'm an oddball too, Elvish. We often do foley inductions and they work well. I personally hate Cytotec ripenings.

Not where I work, either. Thank goodness!

We go over all that information in discharge teaching. There is a PP discharge video that parents are required to watch before leaving that mentions it and we verbally mention and go over s/sx of PP depression before discharge.

Immediately after delivery, babies go directly to mom's chest. They are wiped off, and stimulated. They aren't taken away to a warmer for evaluation or assessment unless there is a respiratory issue. They are left to bond on mom's chest unless the...

Our NRP is handled the same way. I paid for it out of pocket and they reimbursed me. They even paid me for the hours (Maximum of 2 hours) it took to take it at home.

I'm curious how your OB floor staffs for sick calls or when there just aren't enough nurses? Do they float from somewhere else? Do you have a resource pool? Do you have PRN staff you can call? Do you bring in travelers? Also, if you're called i...

We don't have anesthesia at our hospital 24/7 either, but their response time is amazing. They respond PDQ when we need them for emergent C/S's. I have to admit that most stay in house during their call time since we often call them anyway, but the...

We have 9 LDR beds. 3 triage rooms, 2 OR suites. Staffing on nights is usually 3-4 nurses vs. 4 nurses on day shift. We are a 1:1 staffing and our charge nurse does all the triage and catching babies, plus putting out the other fires that may aris...

Absolutely you should have two RNs on floor at all times. Minimum. We follow AWHONN guidelines to the letter.