As a Child Safety Seat Tech. I can tell you that all seats are made to the same national standards. The difference between the $45.00 seat and the $300.00 seat are the "extra" bells and whistles the...
ImaStork replied to CametoitlateTexan's topic in Texas Nursing
I am a L&D nurse in a small Texas town of approx 15,000. I love it. I work in the county hospital. We have several home health agencies here in town as well as hospice. We also have several long...
Don't decide to shower after being out drinking most of the night, then pass out in the shower hitting head causing laceration. Your Pit Bull will eat your face off, literally. We saw the guy with his...
If you are in a good L&D you will not be "on your own" you will have a preceptor who will work with you and teach you. She will not turn you loose until she is satisfied you can do it. Also taking...
I am a 6 foot tall ob nurse and if you find a hospital that furnishes tall scrubs please let me know I would love to work there. My hospital furnishes our scrubs and there are no talls. I wear a size...
At my hospital on the night shift in Women's Services you will do it yourself. We had the choice of another licensed personel or an aide we chose licensed. At my hospital an FTE is an
In my 25 year nursing career I have worked 21 of them either 11p to 7a or 7p to 7a as I am now doing. I feel working nights has made me a stronger nurse. More sure of myself. In labor and delivery I...
Now you have went and hurt my feelings. I have been a nurse in Texas for 25 years and could not imagine being a nurse anywhere else. There are good and bad places to work as well as good and bad...
I work at a small county hospital. All the nurses are NRP certified. The pedi docs have trained the charge nurses to view cords and suction for mec. We do not have in house anesthesia and our OB docs...
I agree even with Lupus, abnormal bleeding, pain and sudden unexplained weight loss are warning signs. Could be just warning you that you need to have a hysterectomy but could be something else....
Besides all the above mentioned interventions one of our docs has had us place a foley catheter in and fill the bladder this also aids in lifting the presenting part and holding it off the cord. This...
ImaStork replied to marcicatherine's topic in Emergency
Last night I think every child in our town conspired not to poop. I fielded 4 calls on constipated kids, two had just not gone in the last few hours. Parents decided at 2am this was something to be...
At the rural county hospital where I work we have no housekeeping after midnight on weekends and 230a on weekdays so IT IS OUR JOB to clean delivery rooms and section suite if we want to have a clean...
When the hospital where I work first opened it had only one nurses station for the med/surg unit and behind the chart rack was a wall with hangers. The hospital gave each doc on staff a stethescope...