StarrySkies

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...

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...

Thank you so much! :tku:

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.

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...

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

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 ...

Thank you craig1978! That is exactly what I was looking for!

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...

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...

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...

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 online format as long as HIPPAA is not violated and ...

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

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...

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 said to follow the posterior wall of the vagina as...

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 did NOT tell my nurse manager that I was a homebirt...

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 these online programs. The three programs that I ...

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. Have you started at Frontier? If so, what do you thi...

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 also go through the Mary Madeline Project for free bu...

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 school. There are a lot of things that I have done to...

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 moving back. I want to get a year under my belt and m...

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 on the strip which are in actuality really strong....

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 times over the last 24 hours and I just got my results...