mitchsmom

mitchsmom

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  1. New OB Nurses, Grads and Students, Please Feel Free to post your questions here:

    mitchsmom replied to SmilingBluEyes's topic in Ob/Gyn

    If it is a LDRP (labor, delivery, recovery, postpartum) unit, then it is typical to cover all three areas. I'm in an LDRP and we do it all (although we don't have a well-baby nursery - we do all...

  2. Breastfeeding Question for L&D nurses

    mitchsmom replied to Lovely_RN's topic in Ob/Gyn

    That's wild about your ped and she is really not following the standards of current pediatric care. You can check the current AAP statement on breastfeeding at: Breastfeeding and the Use of Human Milk...

  3. Pharmaceutical Sales?

    mitchsmom replied to Jesskanurse's topic in General Nursing

    http://www.nofreelunch.org/

  4. How long should orientation be for new grads in L & D?

    mitchsmom replied to mom2Alina's topic in Ob/Gyn

    I am a new grad hired into L&D. I just finished 12 weeks of orientation. If an orientee is not deemed ready after that time, they get longer (another woman on my unit is getting more time &...

  5. RN to Midwife

    mitchsmom replied to Claire_Fraser's topic in Certified Nurse-Midwives, CNM

    You could come join me on our unit... we have a fair amount of immigrants who go unmedicated :) Other than them of course, there are lots of

  6. Is there any significance to a two vessel cord?

    mitchsmom replied to Lisky90's topic in Ob/Gyn

    I had a friend whose baby had a 2 vessel cord and previa but everything was

  7. Breast Feeding and NYT article

    mitchsmom replied to scribblerpnp's topic in Ob/Gyn

    It is kind of a bittersweet story isn't it? Brings up some good points as well as some that we as a society definitely need to work on

  8. How does your facility utilize pitocin for post-3rd stage?

    mitchsmom replied to klone's topic in Ob/Gyn

    :) when i had my third baby (and a harrowing shoulder dystocia) we realized that my iv was infilitrated just a couple minutes after the birth and the nurse was like "oh, you're fine, you're nursing,...

  9. How does your facility utilize pitocin for post-3rd stage?

    mitchsmom replied to klone's topic in Ob/Gyn

    20 in 1000mL NS here, wide open after placenta, some of the nurses slow it down after a few minutes if appropriate. We have one MD who does it IM (who I haven't delivered with

  10. I didn't know this actually happened

    mitchsmom replied to HappyNurse2005's topic in Ob/Gyn

    Someone else surely knows the details more than me, but I understand that this varies from place to place. Apparently, some HAVE to take anyone who calls and some services can assess the situation and...

  11. Stadol Screamers

    mitchsmom replied to 33-weeker's topic in Ob/Gyn

    we are a community hospital and we don't even have in-house ob all the time in the daytime, much less at night, but moms still get their epidurals. ps... we don't have any neonatologists at any time -...

  12. Stadol Screamers

    mitchsmom replied to 33-weeker's topic in Ob/Gyn

    basically no one on our unit walks unless they are an outpatient labor check that's just going to walk around the hospital an hour or two and then let us look again to see if she's making change. they...

  13. RN to Midwife

    mitchsmom replied to Claire_Fraser's topic in Certified Nurse-Midwives, CNM

    I would definitely ask at whatever program you are interested in studying at... many if not most CNM programs (usually confer master's degrees and graduates usually work in hospitals, sometimes...

  14. Any certified Lactation Consultants here?

    mitchsmom replied to tulip928's topic in Ob/Gyn

    No, I don't think so. I do get asked if I have kids by most of my labor patients, but not usually if I just go in a room for lactation help for someone else's postpartum patient. And when pts do...

  15. late-onset postpartum PIH??/Mag. question too

    mitchsmom replied to MIA-RN1's topic in Ob/Gyn

    The preeclampsia foundation website says "Preeclampsia can appear at any time during the pregnancy, delivery and up to six weeks post-partum,..." http://www.preeclampsia.org/FAQ.asp#nine We use...

  16. Moms who want to feel absolutely NO pain

    mitchsmom replied to HappyNurse2005's topic in Ob/Gyn

    At least a couple of the ones I work with probably wouldn't argue a whole lot... About the epidurals... I'm not actually sure if we have a 'policy' on that. I really haven't had to deal with someone...

  17. Any certified Lactation Consultants here?

    mitchsmom replied to tulip928's topic in Ob/Gyn

    Hi, I'm not CMCRN but I'm also an IBCLC. I don't think your regular bf counseling hours have to be directly supervised; for instance I got most of my hours from being a bf group leader & those are...

  18. I didn't know this actually happened

    mitchsmom replied to HappyNurse2005's topic in Ob/Gyn

    alot of people use ambulances for taxi

  19. Postpartum depression

    mitchsmom replied to nurse79's topic in Ob/Gyn

    Here is one page (I'm sure there are many) about PPD, & there is also a quiz there that moms can take (I think it is based on the Edinburgh Postnatal Depression Scale, at least it is mentioned...

  20. Book suggestions? OB nursing made incredibly easy?

    mitchsmom replied to jenrninmi's topic in Ob/Gyn

    the NRP book a Fetal Heart Rate monitoring book - I'm not sure which one is "it" - I'm sure someone here can say. I have my class in a few weeks. a good breastfeeding book (BF Answer Book or look...

  21. The time is drawing near...Help

    mitchsmom replied to hoping to be an rn's topic in Ob/Gyn

    Just get really drunk first. Kidding!! I am about to go off orientation too... my preceptor has been backing off gradually so that now I'm almost on my own anyway except when I need help or am super...

  22. New to L/D

    mitchsmom replied to nurse79's topic in Ob/Gyn

    We don't do sterile spec exams... we just use nitrazine paper to determine ROM. I was told that we used to have a microscope to test for ferning but there was some kind of issue with JCAHO (have any...

  23. Advice RE: Midwifery Schools

    mitchsmom replied to LAW79's topic in Certified Nurse-Midwives, CNM

    If you are still here, just an idea... maybe you could contact the schools (travel there if you can of course) and ask for a few names of current students that you could talk to & get some...

  24. Distance MSN CNM Schools

    mitchsmom replied to lauritasol's topic in Certified Nurse-Midwives, CNM

    I have heard good things about Frontier and also about Stony Brook from someone who traveled there to check out their CNM program for an academic thesis they were doing but can't tell ya anything...

  25. Have you ever had a patient with a uterine rupture?

    mitchsmom replied to rbytsdy's topic in Ob/Gyn

    I am a new L&D nurse (2.5 mos) but we had one just last week, wasn't my pt and I don't know the details but she was a repeat c/s who came to the unit in labor, so she went quickly for c/s anyway...