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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 promising.

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 works.

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 year. It is like 6 weeks days 6 weeks nights. The pa...

Thank you for the info on rio salado college. Unfortunatly I am looking for an upper division stats class.

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 online?

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 really hard contractions about 6-10 min apart bef...

I have heard of Frontier school but recently heard some negative things about the program. What other online programs are there?

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 first try. We had about 90 in our class. It is a ver...

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 and am looking for quick and easy way to renew my...

What is ECU?

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 labor.

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 dose.

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 that.

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 job!

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 but I do prefer face to face report because that wa...

I had a patient when I worked Med Surg Flossie Butts.

The midwives I work with now are employed by the hospital. They usually do 1 or 2 8-hour clinic days a week anad 1 or 2 12 hour shifts in the hospital where they do deliver any of the patients from their various clinics that they work for.

When I was in nursing school I didn't really think that I would end up in L/D. It was a rotation that I liked but not where I thought I wanted to work. Now that I work L/D I realize how much I love it now. It is a wonderful place to work. It is ...

Iam always amazed at the reasons some of our patients come in to get evaluated in the middle of the night. We had a patient show up at 2 o'clock in the morning, 35 wks with flu like symptoms to be evaluated. Why would you get yourself (and signifi...

Our OBs do our circs and they do them every morning usually before office hours. We have kindly asked them not to do them between 7 and 7:30 but there are a few who still do. As I work Night shift I don't usually have to assist with them but the fe...

We do computer charting on our unit and the strips are being stored in the computer however we still are saving our paper monitor strips. Computers are still not a perfect system if memory is lost so I think it is still important to keep the paper s...

We also have electronic charting (Quantitive Sentinal) I still make little notes on the strip when I am buzy then go back to chart in the computer. The strip is still part of the permanant record.

We have LDRP's but have many nurses that only do PP. We will give them patients on Mag or even PPH patients they have been trained to deal with these types of patients plus Labor nurses are on the same unit if they get into trouble. I agree though ...

I Have never heard negative comments about Balboa Hospital. I have never heard rave reviews either though. As far as the midwives are concered I work with several midwives that have or still work at that clinic. They are all very experienced and ...

CONGRATULATIONS!!!!! I hope all is well with your baby. Please keep us up to date.