LJMoats

1. My goal was to complete in 1 year and am on track. I have 1 more class before my Capstone. 2. Capstone is a project that you research, implement, and evaluate. 3. I am a huge proponent of competency based education for the ADN to BSN and BSN to MSN programs. I really can't speak to traditional classroom. This program is very research oriented. You create your own timeframes for course Work. I feel prepared. 4. Setting realistic goals. Utilizing resources available. Communication with both the Student Mentor and the Course Mentors. Are you currently enrolled at WGU? If so the best advice I can give is this: When writing a paper use the rubric sections as headers, follow the rubric explicitly. For example if the rubric asks you identify advantages and disadvantages, make sure you include those words in your writing.

Citi-Kat congratulations on your upcoming adventure! It seems you have great resources in place, get the most of them while you can! If possible stay for the second day, you never know what may come up and the questions you will have. Being a first time mom it my help you feel a little better about having someone around, just in case!

6 couplets are a lot. Usually a post partum assignment is 3-4 couplets. We have LDrp'S so at times a nurse will have a labor and and an "old" mommy/baby couplet. A lot of times if that happens I will try to assign the labor nurse a patient with a baby in NICU. Sometimes the dollars and cents gets to us all.

Very true FCMC should not mean you are on your own. The focus is on the family unit keeping them together. Staff should be more attentive in these instances. Practically every moment is a teaching opportunity. The nurse should help the mother/support person gain confidence in caring for their newborn.

Most of my 17 years as a RN has been spent in a LDRP unit at two different hospitals. At the first hospital we had rooming in, allowed support person to stay, and we had visting hours for everyone else! The hospital I work in now allows rooming in, does not have any specific visting hours, allows as many people in the delivery as the patient wants ( if feasable). I am a huge supporter of family centered care. But by that I mean the family unit. Mom, support PERSON, and baby. It seems these days the birthing process is more a circus than an intimate family event. I long for the days of visiting hours. We have so much to do and teach the family unit in 2 days, its hard to fit it all in.