StrongRN

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1. Confront a fellow nurse or not?

   StrongRN replied to AmberL&D/RN's topic in Ob/Gyn

   AmberL&D/RN Sounds like some very good and sound advice on line. By all means "call her bluff" nurses like this we can all do without. Let her know that while you do what you can to ease the...

2. Opinion re: getting a new patient at the end of your shift

   StrongRN replied to ShimmaShimma0304's topic in Patient Safety Issues

   Perhaps your director should initiate a "cooling Period" like we have at my hospital. It goes like this - we do not take admissions 15 minutes before the end of a shift and not for the 15 minutes...

3. Nurse to Couplet Ratio?????

   StrongRN replied to aimeeRN's topic in Ob/Gyn

   Our Mother/Baby ratio is 4-5/1 optimally speaking they prefer 4:1 but with staffing the way it is now a days 5 or 6 would not be unheard of but would also be

4. Elective C-sections

   StrongRN replied to Altra's topic in Ob/Gyn

   Let's get real ladies. Birthing babies is birthing babies regardless of what the outcome is. I personally found labor (no epidural during labor) to be less discomfort than my menstrual cycle. But...

5. Need advice/help w/bad situation!

   StrongRN replied to gypsyatheart's topic in Ob/Gyn

   Sweetheart what you need to do is run not walk straight to the closest state board of nursing, joint commission, and B L O W THE W H I S T L E on these heartless @#!~%$^*. And let them all know that...

6. Where are all you SC nurses?

   StrongRN replied to RedVaz's topic in General Nursing

   I am an Assistant Nurse Manager for an ob/gyn unit at a local hospital in Columbia. Anyone interested in a job? I would like to know how may facilities have LDR to Postpartum units. And how many are...

7. on call policies

   StrongRN replied to UKRN88's topic in Patient Safety Issues

   UKRN88 On my unit we take call in 4 hour increments @ $1/hour and should we be called in we are paid time and a half plus the $1/hour . And we are guaranteed 2hour of call back back even if we stay...

8. why no responses to my post

   StrongRN replied to cathytoday's topic in Nursing Career

9. transferring vaginal deliveries to postpartum/gyn unit

   StrongRN posted a topic in Ob/Gyn

   :angryfire I have a gyn/post partum unit with 29 beds. Our hospital has just recently gone to the LDR approach for new mothers. My question to you is: At what stage of her recovery does this new...