BabyLady

BabyLady BSN, RN

NICU, Post-partum

Member

  • Content

    2,300

  • Visitors

    17,323

  • Followers

    0

  • Likes

    18

All Content by BabyLady

  1. NCLEX results pending...,meltdown

    BabyLady replied to nursekatie25's topic in NCLEX Exam, Programs

    Sure they do. Priority questions....you have to know how to assess a situation and make a decision...you do that in your job every day. You can't answer these questions if you don't know what to look...

  2. Anyone going baby friendly?

    BabyLady replied to babyktchr's topic in Ob/Gyn

    Because you would get sued by the mother who had an infant that died that was born with a low blood sugar that was slow to feed....and their attorney would jump all over the fact that you "never...

  3. I lost my job

    BabyLady replied to tabswifeRN's topic in Licensure: Criminal History

    YOU GOT IT! It is only relevant to your background if you were CONVICTED of child abuse and neglect. Think it through. Let's say my next door neighbor called social services on me because she was mad...

  4. I lost my job

    BabyLady replied to tabswifeRN's topic in Licensure: Criminal History

    That is incorrect information. You cannot expunge an arrest or conviction that doesn't exist. Simple, investigative records, are kept on file, and do not need to be expunged because they are not...

  5. Anyone going baby friendly?

    BabyLady replied to babyktchr's topic in Ob/Gyn

    If Mom even has a few drops of colostrum available...new Mom's don't realize how valuable it is...and we encourage them to bring "anything" that they have. If there isn't enough for a whole...

  6. Pain is not a "vital sign"

    BabyLady replied to MikeyBSN's topic in General Nursing

    An infant that has not had surgery or other invasive procedures and a soft belly, should not be in pain. We assess pain hourly if a little tyke has had a

  7. Have you ever seen this? Is it legal?

    BabyLady replied to sasha2lady's topic in LPN, LVN Corner

    It depends if selling expired meds is illegal in that state. That is very, very different than a hospital refusing to dispense meds or use products that have expired. Food banks frequently get...

  8. Breast baby after C-Section and GD

    BabyLady replied to nkochrn's topic in Ob/Gyn

    We are blessed to have an LC that doesn't believe in nipple confusion. More like nipple preference. Rationale: Full termers develop a preference for pacifiers...and if you don't get them the right...

  9. Pain is not a "vital sign"

    BabyLady replied to MikeyBSN's topic in General Nursing

    Sorry, I disagree. Pain is not subjective...to the person that reports it...pain is a physiological response to a stimuli....just like you can have 10 people in the room that will have different heart...

  10. NICU NURSES....labeling breast milk???

    BabyLady replied to schoolnurseadmin's topic in NICU, Neonatal

    We print stickers that have the patient information and barcodes and these are given to the mothers to put on the bottles. Bottles are dated when they are frozen, and dated/timed when pulled out into...

  11. Am I a backstabber or just a concerned co-worker?

    BabyLady replied to Dramqueenie1's topic in First Year After Licensure

    I'll tell you what you do. If she told you, regardless of what she says, she probably told someone else. Hospitals are the worst sort of hen house that there is on the planet when it comes to gossip....

  12. I lost my job

    BabyLady replied to tabswifeRN's topic in Licensure: Criminal History

    Investigations, where the parents are CLEARED of abuse charges are NOT public record. I also don't understand how the police can say (and this is where you should have got an attorney) that you were...

  13. NCLEX results pending...,meltdown

    BabyLady replied to nursekatie25's topic in NCLEX Exam, Programs

    What? Every question I got on my NCLEX was nursing related. Every

  14. Does this bother you.. or is it just me?

    BabyLady replied to rholman's topic in Pre-Nursing Students

    You'll be starting all over on that ladder when you start to work at the hospital

  15. Anyone going baby friendly?

    BabyLady replied to babyktchr's topic in Ob/Gyn

    We provide them with a hand pump and equipment to use the hospital pump with. However, rental and electric pumps will vary with insurance companies. We have two LC's on staff. Our facility does not...

  16. Sterile Dressing Change question

    BabyLady replied to Student4Now's topic in LPN, LVN Students

    You can carry sterile items over a sterile field but contaminated items should be moved AROUND the sterile field. Here is why: Bacteria is made of cells. Cells have mass. Anything that has mass has...

  17. Anyone going baby friendly?

    BabyLady replied to babyktchr's topic in Ob/Gyn

    In our unit...Mom had better have a good supply of breast milk or there is always a standing order to bottle feed. A baby's health, nutrition, blood sugar, etc...always takes priority over Mom's...

  18. Does this bother you.. or is it just me?

    BabyLady replied to rholman's topic in Pre-Nursing Students

    I hate to break it to you....but you are in the minority. I have never sat beside of someone in a class (nursing or not) that required tons of note-taking where people wouldn't occasionally lean over...

  19. Refusing Mandatory Vaccination

    BabyLady replied to vanillagerm's topic in General Students

    I agree 190% Things like Hep B..etc...vaccines that have been around forever...well developed, well tested, millions of people for a good number of years that have received them....sign me up...I have...

  20. Rant: others sitting in on lectures

    BabyLady replied to Veruka's topic in Michigan Nursing

    Yes, you can switch sections if you don't like your instructor. Everyone has that right and I have done it a time or two myself. However, I personally have never heard of this happening at a...

  21. Is this Ethical or Legal?

    BabyLady replied to ernoc333's topic in Emergency

    I was taught that if you have a patient that came in asking for a very strong narcotic and says that, "_______ is the only thing that works for me." It was a dead giveaway for a potential addict....

  22. Does this bother you.. or is it just me?

    BabyLady replied to rholman's topic in Pre-Nursing Students

    I'll be honest...if this is the type of attitude that you are going to take in nursing school toward your classmates...do the rest of them a favor and sit by yourself in the corner...

  23. Anyone get out of a ticket just for being an RN?

    BabyLady replied to nicu4me's topic in General Nursing

    No...but I got a ton of road workers to move once. I was in a rural area doing a community health visit...as a student. I came across an area where they were digging up a water line. The guy came...

  24. NCLEX results pending...,meltdown

    BabyLady replied to nursekatie25's topic in NCLEX Exam, Programs

    Don't put yourself through that torture. Search the threads and find the Pearson Vue Trick. Make sure your results are in "delivered" status...you'll know by this afternoon if you passed or not. The...

  25. Hygiene--HELP PLEASE

    BabyLady replied to ANurseWannaB's topic in General Nursing

    I'll be honest. Really, really honest. I would divorce someone that was that nasty. No way would I tolerate that for a day, much less a week. If he is that nasty with his personal hygiene, I sure hope...