StarrySkies replied to StarrySkies's topic in NP Students
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.
StarrySkies replied to StarrySkies's topic in NP Students
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...
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...
StarrySkies replied to Testa Rosa, RN's topic in California
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 ...
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 patients. P- Purposeful. This is not the pain of a b...
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 year. Most hospitals only put the most experienced...
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...
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...
StarrySkies replied to blueindigo79's topic in 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 vaginally without surgical assistance if they have free...
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...
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 information to be entered on the next line. How do you mana...