StarrySkies

StarrySkies

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  1. 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...

  2. 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...

  3. NP/ Educator Salaries in CA

    StarrySkies replied to StarrySkies's topic in Student Nurse Practitioner

    Thank you so much!

  4. 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

  5. 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...

  6. 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

  7. 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...

  8. Need Public Health Nursing Certification

    StarrySkies replied to StarrySkies's topic in California Nursing

    Thank you craig1978! That is exactly what I was looking

  9. 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...

  10. 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...

  11. 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...

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

    StarrySkies posted a topic in Ob/Gyn

    I am trying to move my hospital away from the big paper Birth Book to log births. I do the statistics for our OBT and it seems that both the triage book and the Birth Book in LAD can be moved to an...

  15. 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

  16. 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...

  17. Advice on SVE

    StarrySkies replied to im_an_honest_1's topic in Ob/Gyn

    I have even used a bed pan upside down covered with a towel under a mom's hips to help raise her up. The best advice I ever had on finding a cervix on a G1 in early labor came from an attending. She...

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

    StarrySkies replied to anon456's topic in Ob/Gyn

    Klone! Me too! To the OP, I was actually a doula and a childbirth educator before entering nursing school. I went to nursing school to become a LAD nurse and eventually a CNM. I can tell you that I...

  19. Help choosing an online program

    StarrySkies posted a topic in Certified Nurse-Midwives, CNM

    What a long road it has been to get to this point! I am one of those homebirthers turned doula turned RN now looking forward to grad school in midwifery. I need your help though in figuring out all of...

  20. Help choosing an online program

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

    redbeads- I know that an online school is the way to go for me. I need to be able to study at 3am if necessary! Plus, I live in the country and Baylor is far far away... I am NOT making that drive....

  21. dealing with a fetal demise

    StarrySkies replied to babymamaRN6's topic in Ob/Gyn

    Thank you for the Now I Lay Me Down to Sleep information! I just contacted them for my hospital. We have some local nursing homes who have residents that crochet/ knit blankets and hats for us. We...

  22. For CNMs: How to get through hospital L&D experience needed for grad school?

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

    Well, I am in the exact same boat, but I have been working as an L&D nurse for a year. I am finally starting the process to apply to grad school. I was a homebirther/ doula long before nursing...

  23. CA native wanting to move back to the Bay Area...

    StarrySkies posted a topic in California Nursing

    I am in Texas now, but miss California terribly! I just finished nursing school (BSN) and am working in L&D at a great county hospital where I am learning tons, but I need to start planning on...

  24. MVU's

    StarrySkies replied to Nichols9878's topic in Ob/Gyn

    The thing is that MVUs are really only truly calculable if the mom has an IUPC in. You can have a skinny mama with mild ctx that look booming on the strip and a fluffy mama with little itty bitty ctx...

  25. Pearsonvue Trick Is this TRUE? Does it work every time?

    StarrySkies replied to brichielpn08's topic in NCLEX Exam, Programs

    I just wanted to let you all know that this trick worked for me! I passed! I got the pop up 2 hours after taking the test and only having 75 questions. I have checked that pop up at least 2 dozen...