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  1. What comments do you hear from OB's about birth plans?

    vwgirl replied to becca.utns's topic in Ob/Gyn

    They routinely give enemas in my L&D too; it is even on the standard order sheet, although not all docs will do it. BTW, we still use Demerol/Phenergan for most pain control with our sections, so...

  2. 12-Step Coercion

    vwgirl replied to tommyperkins's topic in General Nursing

    I was wondering if you had come across any treatment methods that are more successful than those we employ in America. I did hear on NPR the other day how somone helps heroin addicts break free of...

  3. 12-Step Coercion

    vwgirl replied to tommyperkins's topic in General Nursing

    Perhaps because the medical folks don't tend to get too far in treating alocholic/addicts, since most doctors today receive about as much training in addictionology as they do in caring for patients...

  4. 12-Step Coercion

    vwgirl replied to tommyperkins's topic in General Nursing

    I think AA and NA both are great organizations with their hearts in the right place. What petty criminals and addicts may have in common is a giant void of spirituality in their lives, (unless they're...

  5. 12-Step Coercion

    vwgirl replied to tommyperkins's topic in General Nursing

    You are so right on this one. The courts use AA/NA because it is free; think how impossible it would be for them to mandate professional (costly- especially with no insurance) counseling for all those...

  6. 12-Step Coercion

    vwgirl replied to tommyperkins's topic in General Nursing

    Did you mean he didn't get a response from NA's World Service Office, or from the people on the bulletin

  7. 12-Step Coercion

    vwgirl replied to tommyperkins's topic in General Nursing

    i'm glad you were able to get a response from wso regarding outside issues an na, which is what i had brought up in my earlier post. jeff gershoff said it

  8. 12-Step Coercion

    vwgirl replied to tommyperkins's topic in General Nursing

  9. 12-Step Coercion

    vwgirl replied to tommyperkins's topic in General Nursing

    as tweety so aptly stated in the next post, in na/aa, it's not where you come from that counts, it's where you are going. prior to na, i stole, lied, prostituted myself and violated every moral...

  10. 12-Step Coercion

    vwgirl replied to tommyperkins's topic in General Nursing

  11. 12-Step Coercion

    vwgirl replied to tommyperkins's topic in General Nursing

  12. 12-Step Coercion

    vwgirl replied to tommyperkins's topic in General Nursing

  13. 12-Step Coercion

    vwgirl replied to tommyperkins's topic in General Nursing

    I agree that there should be other options; random hair sampling would be one. (Not urine, 'cause if you really are an addict, a fake clean urine is too easy to score!) But what are the demands that...

  14. 12-Step Coercion

    vwgirl replied to tommyperkins's topic in General Nursing

    I know several people who've gotten sober through Rational Recovery, so I am all for it (except it makes it sound like NA provides Irrational Recovery!); again, whatever gets ya clean and enables you...

  15. 12-Step Coercion

    vwgirl replied to tommyperkins's topic in General Nursing

    Hey, take it easy on the topless dancers and factory workers, ok? It's obvious you don't dig 12 step programs and that's ok. But I've never been in a meeting where anyone is forced to share...

  16. 12-Step Coercion

    vwgirl replied to tommyperkins's topic in General Nursing

    as a nurse in recovery i had lots to say on this subject. but the bottom line here can be broken down into two main points: 1. the bon powers that be mandate 12 step meetings because na/aa are...

  17. Worthless medical insurance

    vwgirl replied to Blackcat99's topic in General Nursing

    It took my insurance company THREE years to pay a claim. I wish I was making this up....Now, they have this new thing with my mail order RX plan where my doctor has to call the company with my...

  18. Where are the real prisons located?

    vwgirl replied to Blackcat99's topic in Correctional

    ...once you have a criminal record you can kiss your chance of being employable goodbye, at least in any decent type of job paying a livable wage. It does not suprise me that so many inmates continue...

  19. Mother-Infant Coupling

    vwgirl replied to niquern's topic in Ob/Gyn

    I too, feel that an uncomplicated lady partsl birth is NOT a medical problem. Yet, I have plenty of patients who will ring the call bell after an NSVD for me to "come hand me the baby from the crib"...

  20. Couplets and nurse:patient ratios

    vwgirl replied to NICU_Nurse's topic in Ob/Gyn

    My facility says for moms only we can have one nurse per eight moms; same goes for babies only, one nurse per eight babies. (This apparently is BETTER than state guidelines?!) As for couplets, we...

  21. Mother-Infant Coupling

    vwgirl replied to niquern's topic in Ob/Gyn

    No, just an inner-city

  22. Mother-Infant Coupling

    vwgirl replied to niquern's topic in Ob/Gyn

    Most of our rooms are double rooms; we have three private rooms. The reason given behind not allowing fathers or anyone else to stay is "patient privacy". The nurse who kicks everyone else out says,...

  23. Mother-Infant Coupling

    vwgirl replied to niquern's topic in Ob/Gyn

    I forgot to mention that our facility does NOT encourage fathers/support people staying past 9 pm. I am more flexible than a lot of nurses; if the patient does not have a roommate and we are not busy...

  24. Mother-Infant Coupling

    vwgirl replied to niquern's topic in Ob/Gyn

    The law for my state is 8 well babies per nursery nurse. Baby number nine showed up when I had three hours left in my shift, and there was simply no one available, other than a tech, to come in and...

  25. Mother-Infant Coupling

    vwgirl replied to niquern's topic in Ob/Gyn

    Actually, one of the biggest problems is that we can't escape from the nursery very often to go check on the babies that are out silently aspirating their own spit-up. One night I had nine babies to...