StarrySkies

StarrySkies

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StarrySkies specializes in Labor and Delivery.


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  1. NP/ Educator Salaries in CA

    Thank you so much! :tku:
  2. NP/ Educator Salaries in CA

    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 people.
  3. NP/ Educator Salaries in CA

    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 their salary on hourly wage. Frankly, as I work nig...
  4. NP/ Educator Salaries in CA

    Thank you. I have actually been looking at UCSF trying to find salary figures, but have been unsuccessful. I am going to keep searching.
  5. NP/ Educator Salaries in CA

    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 more, but no one will give me actual numbers. I am...
  6. Nursing Strike

    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 putting patients first, they locked us out for 5 ...
  7. Need Public Health Nursing Certification

    Thank you craig1978! That is exactly what I was looking for!
  8. Epidural vs. nature births

    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 patients. P- Purposeful. This is not the pain of a b...
  9. New grad landed first RN job in OB triage

    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 year. Most hospitals only put the most experienced...
  10. Baby Catcher - Brilliant book

    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 just got a job at the hospital that Peggy Vincent wro...
  11. 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 take my call! I have a BSN, but I understand that I n...
  12. ? Re: mother's size and ability to push out 'big' baby

    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 vaginally without surgical assistance if they have free...
  13. Where are the "normal" births?

    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 can't compare. Nearly everything that we do to women...
  14. What do some L&D nurses have against doulas?

    6 years now! I love it! I am looking at sitting for the IBLCE next July.
  15. Does anyone here use an electronic "Birth Book" at their hospital?

    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 information to be entered on the next line. How do you mana...