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finallyRN

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About finallyRN

I recently started in L&D and love it. Work nights and have a life during most days.

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  1. Is anyone in this program or heard anything good or bad about it? I am looking into several schools but this one seems the most
  2. Evidence-Based practice re: Pitocin Inductions

    This was actually part of our Pitocin protocol at the last hospital that I worked with but no one ever did it. I wonder if it actually
  3. I have worked there for a little while. I did not start there as a new grad but have heard good things about the program. One of the biggest problems is that they make you rotate for at least a...
  4. Online Science Courses

    Thank you for the info on rio salado college. Unfortunatly I am looking for an upper division stats
  5. Online Science Courses

    I know this thread is about science classes but I need statistics class for my MSN class and was wondering if anyone had taken anything
  6. Do you get a lot of false alarms coming in?

    I delivered my son in the L/D unit that I worked in. I had been having BH contractions for a few nights previously but the night I went into labor they got strong really quick. I think I had about 4...
  7. Sjsu

    I graduated from there in 1999. I feel it was a great school. I know that we only lost 5 students in the 3 years to failing classes and I believe that only 8 people did not pass the NCLEX on the...
  8. Onlind distance midwifery programs

    What is
  9. Online Advanced Fetal monitoring

    Has anyone ever heard of or taken an advanced fetal monitoring class online. I am a labor and delivery nurse that left the specialty for a little while and am looking to go back to labor and delivery...
  10. 20 week twins PTL

    At the hospital I use to work L&D at we would probably tried to stip the PTL and give steriods. Unless there were other issues there should be no reason not to at least try to stop the
  11. I have heard of Frontier school but recently heard some negative things about the program. What other online programs are
  12. "upping the pit" with regular ctx's

    We have low dose and high dose pit inductions. With the low dose we up 1 every 15 mins. With the high dose we up 4-6 every 30 minutes. I find that the low dose actually works better than the high...
  13. How many 37, 38-weekers wind up in NICU?

    Our hospital does not allow for inductions before 38.5 weeks for this very reason. We had one doctor in particular who would induce 37 weekers and they usually were earlier than
  14. "upping the pit" with regular ctx's

    like the other posters said Ultimatley if you don't feel comfortable don't do it. If the doc continues to pressure you go to your charge nurse or manager, if they don't support you, find another
  15. How do you get/give report?

    We had voice care but just recently got rid of it. It didn't work in our unit. I think we just had too many people with negative attitudes who didn't want it to work. I thought that is was fine...