CNM 26.2

Actually, CNM's can provide the same services as WHNP with the addition of attending births. CNMs do women's health care and primary care as well.

I worked nights for many years and for various reasons. I never realized how little sleep I actually got until I stopped working nights-I was amazed at how great I felt! Having said that-I did like the atmosphere of night shift much better so it wa...

klone just about covered it all! :) The only other thing I would add is-if for any reason the patient has to be (or wants to be) in bed and lying on her back-have her bend her knees with feet flat on the bed, place your hands just under her knees a...

I have been an RN in L&D for many years, I recently graduated from CNM school. My question is-have any of you made the transition to CNM praciticing in the facility where you worked as an RN? Most of the nurses are fabulous and I work very well ...

ACOG states that elective inductions should not be done until at least 39 weeks so measures to prevent inductions under 38 weeks are still not adequate. Even though this doc brings a lot of $$ to the hospital-one law suit could cost the hospital mil...

I would suggest to ask other nurses on your unit how they do it. I suggest this because each unit is unique in how they do things-maybe there is already a process in place that you don't know about. Even if there isn't, some of the other nurses may b...

Unfortunately, that's not an option unless I move my family somewhere else-and I'm pretty stubborn, I refuse to uproot my family and my life because one or two nurses are having a hard time with me being a CNM. Midwife228-thanks for your comments, th...

Yep, for sure a lesson learned!!! You really should have called and/or returned to the hosptial immediately instead of waiting over the weekend to see if someone called you about it. BUT, you'll remember next time for sure. I wish you the best!

Diane~ I hope you got written up for not following doctors orders. PS, I'm just kidding!!!!!

I just finished online grad school-and it is harder than classroom-at least for me. I think it really depends on your learning style. In a traditional classroom you can read the material then have it reinforced in the lecture-with online learning y...

I have only been through very short water outages (a couple of hours or less) for construction. We also used bottled water for drinking and we filled the bathtubs with water before the shut down so we could use a bucket to pour that water into the t...

This thread reminds me of one particularly CRAZY shift I had. We had one patient after another walking in-all of them of course in labor. We had every room full-we were short a nurse-we did two back to back c-sections (and it's a small hospital wit...

Have fun! Vegas is a great place!!!!

CONGRATS!!!!!! Let's all do a happy dance!!! :dancgrp: HEHE! I've just been WAITING to use this smiley...haa!!!!

I beg your pardon. I took the fact that the OP said "Patients" (plural) "Please realize the following" that maybe he/she had issues with most or all patients; in which case a career change may be in order.

Haha!! I like your thinking!!!!!! That's what I try to do-I just hope they get over their passive agressiveness soon!!!

Maybe you need a new job....or a new career.

I have several..haha!! One night when I was on c-section call and there was a mom attempting a VBAC so I was required to be within 5 minutes of the hospital while she was laboring. My husband and I went to dinner at a restaurant about amile away fro...

This is also one of my huge pet peeves!!! The hospital finally blocked some sites but it didn't seem to help much. What really gets to me is that the offending nurses got upset because they felt entitled to be able to get on the internet and felt t...

Check with your board of nursing. Some states allow you to get a temporary license and work as a "graduate nurse" until you get your official license. Unless things have recently changed the scores go to your state BON then they issue the license-t...

When I read the title at first I thought it said "What's it like to be a nurse in prison." hahahahahahaha!!! Carry on!

I agree, I really see now point in having both an LPN and an RN license-you are held to the standard of the highest license you have anyway-which would be the RN.

You also have to remember that sometimes PTO is a benefit for full and/or part time employees so if you are PRN you do not qualify for that benefit-in which case they really are under no obligation to make this up to you. I don't know if that's the ...

Talk to your doctor or midwife, but, if you don't have any complications there should be no reason you can't work till the end.

Right off the top of my head, either an office, birth center or maybe go the childbirth education or lactation consultant route. You could also consider being a doula-not nursing but OB related.