Bridget41040

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1. L&D nurses - different viewpoints on birth

   Bridget41040 replied to KMLSanDiego's topic in Ob/Gyn

   New L&D nurse that just had my 3rd baby at home with a midwife! I worked 2 years peds and 2 years postpartum/floating to L&D. I saw a lot of stuff in L&D that scared the dickens out of me and lead me to feeling safer delivering at home....

2. Do you turn off Pit when adequate labor is established??

   Bridget41040 posted a topic in Ob/Gyn

   Hi everyone! I'm a new L&D nurse and taking my intermediate fetal monitoring class and I'm learning so much. I learned a few things about pitocin that I'd never heard before, or even seen practiced. #1 90% of women will go into active labor on ...

3. My birth story offended our OB's now they want me fired!

   Bridget41040 replied to Bridget41040's topic in General Nursing

   My birth story is really long! But I will post the last part of it where they obviously took offense:

4. My birth story offended our OB's now they want me fired!

   Bridget41040 posted a topic in General Nursing

   I'm a postpartum, L&D and nursery nurse. Had my baby 3 weeks ago and was called in for a meeting with my manager today. I posted my birth story on facebook for all my friends to see. I had a planned home birth, with midwife and had a 10 pound ...

5. Dealing with OB docs...

   Bridget41040 posted a topic in Ob/Gyn

   Hi all! I've been an RN for 2 years. Got experience working on a nice, acute pediatric floor in downtown New Orleans, recently switched to prn on a peds/postpartum floor at a local suburban hospital...and now am officially training for L&D. It...

6. The frightening ignorance of teens having babies

   Bridget41040 replied to ShariDCST's topic in Ob/Gyn

   I feel very blessed that at the age of 6, my mom, who was in nursing school at the time, gathered all my brothers and sisters, opened up her A&P text book and did her best to teach basic boy/girl anatomy. Now given there's only so much a 6 year ...

7. Shoulder dystocia

   Bridget41040 replied to mormor's topic in Ob/Gyn

   I'm a RN just getting into postpartum hoping to eventually get in L&D, but my experience with shoulder dystocia comes from experiencing myself. I'm 5'2 and delivered an 10 pound 15 ounce baby on my due date... all natural. The entired labor fro...

8. What is the better shift? Would you rather work night shift or day shift? Curious :)

   Bridget41040 replied to tikilpn2's topic in General Nursing

   I've been a nurse a little over a year. Oriented during days but have been working nights. For a while I thought it was great, much less hectic. I work at a teaching hospital and there are litterally a million people on the unit during the day (wh...

9. Nursing Care for Anorexia?

   Bridget41040 replied to 09nursingstudent09's topic in Student Assist

   I work on a pediatric med-surg floor and we recently got our first anorexic in about 2 years. We usually don't do a lot of "psych" based patients but after we did "so well" wit the first one we got another. They come in for electrolyte imbalances ...

10. Need help with my RN resume- little experience outside of clinical

    Bridget41040 posted a topic in New Nurse

    i have no medical experience outside of my clinical rotations and have tossed the idea back on whether or not i should insert my past work experience as a server, etc.... but i'm afraid if i don't it will look like i haven't worked. i tried to keep ...

11. Do pediatric vaccines still contain mercury?

    Bridget41040 posted a topic in General Nursing

    Hi nurses. I'm a nursing student and had pediatrics last semster. I seem to remember my instructor (who is PNP) say that most of the vaccines given to infants today don't contain any mercury. Instead of using multi-dose vials, they are now using s...