StarrySkies

StarrySkies specializes in Labor and Delivery.

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1. NP/ Educator Salaries in CA

   StarrySkies replied to StarrySkies's topic in Student Nurse Practitioner

   Thank you so much!

2. NP/ Educator Salaries in CA

   StarrySkies replied to StarrySkies's topic in Student Nurse Practitioner

   From what I can see even Public Health RNs make more than I do in a hospital. It seems like a good field with a lot of autonomy and opportunity to really help

3. NP/ Educator Salaries in CA

   StarrySkies replied to StarrySkies's topic in Student Nurse Practitioner

   That is exactly where I am heading I think. Also, I am thinking that the CNMs that have talked (a tiny bit) about salary with me are calculating how many hours that they work in a week, and dividing...

4. NP/ Educator Salaries in CA

   StarrySkies replied to StarrySkies's topic in Student Nurse Practitioner

   Thank you. I have actually been looking at UCSF trying to find salary figures, but have been unsuccessful. I am going to keep

5. NP/ Educator Salaries in CA

   StarrySkies posted a topic in Student Nurse Practitioner

   I am trying to figure out if it makes financial sense for me to go to grad school. I am a RN in CA and already make about 100k/year. I am in L&D and have had several CNMs tell me that nurses make...

6. Nursing Strike

   StarrySkies replied to Testa Rosa, RN's topic in California Nursing

   I am also one of the nurses on strike who was locked out for 5 days. I blame the lockout- not the strike for this patient's death. The hospital wanted to punish us for striking for one day. Instead of...

7. Need Public Health Nursing Certification

   StarrySkies replied to StarrySkies's topic in California Nursing

   Thank you craig1978! That is exactly what I was looking

8. Epidural vs. nature births

   StarrySkies replied to winter_green's topic in Ob/Gyn

   I have had 2 out-of-hospital births (one home and one at a birth center). I teach childbirth classes and I am a L&D RN. I have an acronym for the pain in childbirth that I teach my students and...

9. New grad landed first RN job in OB triage

   StarrySkies replied to txmommyof3's topic in Ob/Gyn

   I am kind of surprised that you will be working in OBT right away. I am at a county hospital too and I was hired as a GN under the OBT cost center, but didn't actually work in triage for well over a...

10. Baby Catcher - Brilliant book

    StarrySkies replied to emmy's topic in Ob/Gyn

    I loved this book. This diary was actually one of the things that spurred me to go to nursing school and now to grad school for midwifery. What is even cooler (for me!) is that I am relocating and...

11. Need Public Health Nursing Certification

    StarrySkies posted a topic in California Nursing

    I am moving to CA from TX and I would like to get my certification in Public Health Nursing. I have been trying to call the CaBON for several days and I keep getting that the lines are too busy to...

12. ? Re: mother's size and ability to push out 'big' baby

    StarrySkies replied to blueindigo79's topic in Certified Nurse-Midwives, CNM

    It is impossible to know until she is in labor. The pelvis of a primip has a miraculous ability to expand when the labor hormones get going. I honestly think that most women can deliver a 10lber lady...

13. Where are the "normal" births?

    StarrySkies replied to what2donow's topic in Certified Nurse-Midwives, CNM

    I was a doula and childbirth educator before I was a L&D RN and let me tell you- there is a huge difference. Have you ever attended an out-of-hospital birth? Without that experience, you really...

14. What do some L&D nurses have against doulas?

    StarrySkies replied to anon456's topic in Ob/Gyn

    6 years now! I love it! I am looking at sitting for the IBLCE next

15. Does anyone here use an electronic "Birth Book" at their hospital?

    StarrySkies replied to StarrySkies's topic in Ob/Gyn

    I have been looking at the excel worksheet instead of the book, but I am having a hard time figuring out how to protect the information that is entered from being changed and still allow new...