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Hi, I work in a new hospital, we have grown to approx 60 deliveries a month. In the last 2 months we have had 3 pts with MRSA, 1 with an active lesion and 2 w/ histories of MRSA during their pregnancy. All three have been handled differently. Our ...

Tiffany, Thanks for the reply. It is so frustrating to have such inconsistencies between the OB's, peds, neos, and infection control. None of our babies have been isolated OR cultured. How's that? I've tried researching it on the web and find tha...

What do you think about this?

We have recently experienced a very upsettting incident with a physician. He has been written up. I would say that the majority of nurses on my floor would prefer never to see him again. After such an upsetting situation, we have no respect for th...

If anyone has a wonderful report sheet applicable for an LDRP, please email a copy to me. My boss is interested in the type that you continue to use through-out the pt's stay. The one that we are using currently does not have enough room on it for ...

Thank you! I went to the website and sent a request for it just now via email. I hope it works!

If you have the PP sheet avail, please send it to me. If you have it, but not anything to transfer email, I can send you my address. Thanks!

In one day, an incident report was written by the nurse caring for the patient and another incident report was written by another doctor. They were two separate incidents. Luckily, I am not the only one who has no respect for this man. What a mess.

What do they do in your hospital? If you do both, how/where did you learn to assist?

Hi everyone, I had a tough night last week. I was in charge, we had a pt that needed a stat section brady to 60's after AROM with mec and blood! We had a scrub tech on call but we didn't have time to wait for him. No one else had scrub experience s...

You're right, I needed to get it out of my system. Thanks for the support.

Thanks so much! I think that an inservice would be a great idea! I'll use that in my meeting.

this is fabulous! i copied and pasted it to all my co-workers! thanks! i needed the humor! :rotfl:

Hi Everyone! I am looking for a FUN 10 min inservice for a staff meeting. Any ideas?

Ahh- these are good ideas! Especially the rule out sepsis. Someone's always trying to find the formula for the IT ratio! Unfortunately, we do not have a resource like yours. She sounds marvelous! Thanks for your help!

Just anything informal and fun- we've already had how to draw a PKU and a nurses's role in shoulder dystocia. I wanted to do something off the cuff- just something to loosen the crowd after a staff meeting. I have a few ideas that are the typical in...

Hi, I'm a LDRP nurse in Bradenton, FL. As of September 15th we will no longer have a L&D in our hospital due to the increasing costs of malpractice insurance. Our OB/GYN's are not able to practice OB any longer because they simply cannot afford i...