kate24

Thank you for your input. I am not against working at a small hospital and have done so for the past 12+ years. I am more concerned with being the only L&D RN in house and having my you-know-what flapping in the breeze.:wink2:

I am an L&D nurse with 9 years experience at a small community hospital that sees about 400 deliveries a year. I would like feedback/opinions on whether you think I would be better off at a small facility that only sees about 230 deliveries a year and where I may be the only LD RN in house or a larger facility in a big city that sees 1400 deliveries a year? Thanks in advance. :typing

I am going to take my first assignment and was thinking of finding my own housing to pocket the surplus, but I don't know how to go about securing housing in a rural area I know nothing about. If anyone has ideas of how to find temporary housing, I would appreciate it. Thanks in advance.

Perhaps I did not phrase my question correctly. Has anyone else had a similar experience?

I was terminated after 12 years (9 spent on our OB unit) in a small community hospital for sending a baby home w/o a physician's order. I know that I have done this before and other nurses have too (never intentionally). Usually the physician will cover us. Unfortunately, there a lot of other political and process issues going on right now at this facility. For one, the physician in question is angry because another group has a NNP who "stole" two of his patients at the same time. We have two different operating systems that are not compatible, plus the paper chart so we have to go looking in three different places for information, which everyone agrees sets us up for things to be missed. Because we are a small unit, we are expected to do L&D and postpartum. On the day in question, I was trying to be a "team player" and admitted another nurse's second labor patient and started her IV and drew her blood work. I suppose if I would have just stuck to my side of the hallway (postpartum) I wouldn't be in this nightmare. My question is: Can the facility report me to the Board of Nursing in my state for what they termed "practicing outside of my scope of practice" to where it would effect my license and ability to work?