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  1. code on a baby

    adpiRN replied to adpiRN's topic in Ob/Gyn

    Word from a nurse who worked today was that the cause was a hematoma from acynclitic presentation during pushing. Does this make sense? The weird thing is the tracing was fine during pushing! I'll try...

  2. code on a baby

    adpiRN replied to adpiRN's topic in Ob/Gyn

    Thanks everyone!! Though honestly I felt like I barely did anything. I called NICU for help and they took over the code. I was keeping notes (or attempting to). I barely understood everything they...

  3. L& D----3 codes in 1 month!

    adpiRN posted a topic in Ob/Gyn

    In the past month my labor and delivery floor has had 3 codes on moms! All post NSVD or post c/s. I think all patients ended up in the ICU after. So scary! I feel totally useless in a code....

  4. cross-train from L&D

    adpiRN posted a topic in NICU, Neonatal

    I've been working in L&D for about a year. I'm not ready to leave L&D, but am thinking about asking if I could cross-train to NICU. I'm not even sure if they'll let me, but I'm just...

  5. Percentage of Nurse Practitioners per specialty...?

    adpiRN replied to rn2msn's topic in Nurse Practitioners, NP

    Really? I always thought FNPs were in very high demand. Just what I heard from nurses I work with who got their NPs and were job

  6. How much do you get paid?

    adpiRN replied to EILEEN456's topic in Ob/Gyn

    $39/hr in New York City, 1 year experience. My starting salary as a new grad last year was

  7. RN Unable to Work in Clinical Setting...advice?

    adpiRN replied to patty55's topic in Nursing Career

    A nurse in our L&D unit has a latex allergy. So she always works triage. I think the only reason she's can't take laboring patients is because of the foley catheters. The gloves are

  8. Do you moonlight somewhere other than your FT position?

    adpiRN replied to LETRN's topic in General Nursing

    Why? As long as you can still fulfill your obligation to your full-time job it shouldn't matter. I'm going to get certified in childbirth ed and I hope I can get a part-time job doing that in...

  9. What are some unique, non-acute RN jobs?

    adpiRN replied to mochamocha's topic in General Nursing

    A nurse I worked with used to be a nurse at the Bronx

  10. What hours do you work?

    adpiRN replied to johnny depp23's topic in General Nursing

    I work day shift - 7:30am-8pm. We self schedule, but sometimes the manager has to shift us around based on staffing. They try to accommodate if there are certain days we REALLY want off. We have to...

  11. Midwives for Haiti

    adpiRN posted a topic in Ob/Gyn

    2 of my fellow L&D nurses just got back from a week of volunteer work with this organization. They had a great experience and I wanted to post the website in case anyone on here is interested....

  12. this makes me sick

    adpiRN posted a topic in Ob/Gyn

    Last week I had a pt in pre-term labor at about 32 weeks. She had some pre-term contractions a few weeks before was given celestone and put on bed-rest, but this time it was the real deal. She was...

  13. teaching childbirth ed

    adpiRN posted a topic in Ob/Gyn

    What 's the best path to become certified to teach childbirth ed? Is Lamaze still the best or is better to be a Certified Childbirth Educator these days? There are so many options online, it's so...

  14. scary case last night

    adpiRN posted a topic in Ob/Gyn

    Last night we had a pt with a not so great tracing. Long decels down to 80 or something. But overall it wasn't terrible - I think she had moderate variability and accels. They decided to do a...

  15. scary case last night

    adpiRN replied to adpiRN's topic in Ob/Gyn

    I would call them prolonged. They were probably between 2 and 10 minutes. Resolved with mom in hands and knees position. Could be baby rolling on cord or getting crushed in the pelvis. Update on...

  16. Looking to move to SC from Boston

    adpiRN replied to HDfatboy's topic in General Nursing

    I'm thinking about moving to Aiken, SC and I would recommend it. It's a charming, small horsey town that seems to have a lot of art and culture. There's an Aiken Regional Medical Center, but it's...

  17. New to nursing, advice?

    adpiRN replied to sajaminneapolis's topic in General Nursing

    What you should really look for are accelerated BSN programs. They take people who already have Bachelors' degrees in other areas and get them a Bachelors' of Science in Nursing in about 15 months...

  18. Future for specializing in infertility and IVF?

    adpiRN replied to caitiecait's topic in Certified Nurse-Midwives, CNM

    This is really interesting. Does anyone know why? On my unit we do have a lot of fetal demises related in IVF patients and I've often wondered why there is a connection. I had a patient who had to...

  19. help me figure out what went wrong with this pt's labor!

    adpiRN posted a topic in Ob/Gyn

    My pt last night was pretty straightforward - 29, first baby, no medical problems. A little elevated BP on admission (130s-140s/80s-90s) which I guess was new because it wasn't picked up on a few...

  20. constipation and contractions

    adpiRN replied to theamberdawns's topic in Ob/Gyn

    Diarrhea can give you uterine contractions. I had a pt with diarrhea admitted for rule out pre-term labor b/c she felt contractions and we saw them on the monitor. No cervical change though, so I...

  21. Would you want to be your own nurse? Your own patient?

    adpiRN replied to HeartsOpenWide's topic in General Nursing

    I've thought about this a lot since I plan to have a baby in a few years on the same unit where I work as a labor and delivery nurse. I will probably be an annoying pt since I plan to try to go...

  22. How do you like your job as a nurse?

    adpiRN replied to HopefulNurse90's topic in General Nursing

    The whole break thing varies widely from what I've heard from my friends and read on this forum. On some units there's no time and I have friends who don't take breaks and stay late to chart. On my...

  23. How do you like your job as a nurse?

    adpiRN replied to HopefulNurse90's topic in General Nursing

    I work in labor and delivery, so I help woman through labor, am there when they deliver and take care of them and their babies for the first hour or so after birth. Then they move to postpartum. You...

  24. obnoxious OB

    adpiRN posted a topic in Ob/Gyn

    There's an OB on my floor who's REALLY pushy and wants everything done NOW. He had a pt come in for an induction, I got her in a room at 7:15 AM, 15 minutes before my shift ended. I put her on the...

  25. I thought nurses might appreciate this

    adpiRN posted a topic in General Nursing

    I just wanted to share with some fellow nurses the story of my friend Laura, who died of CF in 2003. In the last years of her life she sort of became a mini-celebrity. She had an audio diary on NPR,...