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When I first started nursing a mother let her signifigant other name their daughter T-9-C. Texas no longer allows just letter or numbers for names. I know a Montrella and Cinderella. We had a mother who named her sons, Billy Idol and Van Halen. Being...

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 manufacture ads. We tell our parents the "BEST" sea...

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 term care facilities.Our hospital also has a clinic...

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 wife after the fact in our L&D. He looked lik...

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 a good basic fetal monitoring course will help yo...

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 too large pants to get them a little longer. I don...

The strangest name I know was when a mother let the father of the baby name their girl T9C ....He thought it was so cool. Texas has now passed a law that will not allow you to use numbers for a name.... too late for this little girl...she is a teen n...

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 FTE.

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 had to depend on my assesssment skills and hone my ...

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 doctors and co-workers. The pay is great in some places...

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 do not intubate babies. Sometimes we have to be ab...

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. Contact your Gyn as soon as possible. Also being 35 has...

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 is done by one person while someone else is in the...

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 concerned about and we could tell them what to give ...

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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 area for our next delivery. Leaving it is not an o...

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 with his name engraved on it and they hung on those ...

I agree with the above statement even after 15 years I have still had a few patients I will get someone else to check after me. It is only when you think you know it all you become a danger to everyone.

I agree with the person who said the story sounds fishy. It sounds like she was a drop-in with no prenatal care. After having had 6 children, if she so wanted to deliver vaginally she could have always opted for home birth. I would like to have a lot...

I work in a small county hospital on the night shift. Our policy is anything over 20 weeks comes to OB under that goes to ER. No patient is triaged by er before she comes up unless she came in via ambulance from mva, if they come in via ambulance com...

more things I have learned as a nurse.... The OB vacuum extractor will remove a 16 oz dr pepper bottle from a man's rectum as easy as it does a baby from a woman's vagina. Don't bring your 13 year old to the er at 3am to have her tested for Mad Cow d...

As with the above posters. I use Leopold's to locate fetal back and as a reason to "lay hands" on my patient. While I am locating fetal postion I am talking to the patient. I can assess abdominal tenderness as well as contractions and ascertain fetal...

here are some ob things I have learned: Never get your Depo-Provera in Mexico. Never assume you are sterile just because you didn't get pregnant with your last 3 lovers. Never take your goldfish out of the bowl and play with it on your tummy because...

here are some ob things I have learned: Never get your Depo-Provera in Mexico. Never assume you are sterile just because you didn't get pregnant with your last 3 lovers. Never take your goldfish out of the bowl and play with it on your tummy because...

If nursing is what you feel "called" to be, and I do feel nursing is a calling. Then there is not another option. Do not go in with the expectation of failure. If you have what it takes you will not fail.