Rhee

Rhee has 5 years experience and specializes in postpartum.

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1. baby friendly questions

   Rhee replied to Rhee's topic in Ob/Gyn

   I'm glad to hear that this isn't the typical baby friendly experience. I think breastfeeding is wonderful and there are so many benefits to skin to skin vs. the warmer and rooming in. It seems as though my hospital has taken baby friendly to the extr...

2. baby friendly questions

   Rhee posted a topic in Ob/Gyn

   The hospital that I work at is in the process of becoming baby friendly, and I have some questions about how the baby friendly initiative is implemented in other hospitals. I want to start by saying that I think that breastfeeding is a wonderful, hea...

3. do you care about your patients?

   Rhee replied to Rhee's topic in General Nursing

   I reread my post and now I think that I sound uncaring. I really do try to treat everyone with kindness and respect and I care about my patients while I am at the hospital. I introduce myself and make small talk and listen to my patient's concerns,...

4. do you care about your patients?

   Rhee posted a topic in General Nursing

   I have noticed on a lot of our lovely press gainey comments that our patients say that they don't feel that we nurses care about them. This got me to wondering what exactly patients expect from a nurse. I work in postpartum, and I try really hard ...

5. Just curious...Do nurses hate Birth Plans?

   Rhee replied to chnc1024's topic in Ob/Gyn

   I like to read birth plans. I think that they are interesting. I work in postpartum, so I get to see how things play out after the fact. Most of the things that people request are things that are normally done anyway, and I definitely think birthp...

6. I'm a pregnant postpartum nurse . . .

   Rhee posted a topic in General Nursing

   It was probably a really bad idea for me to join a pregnancy bulletin board. I don't know what I was thinking. All of the crazy misinformation that people give eachother over the internet wants to make me bang my head against the wall. Between peop...

7. I am tired of inconsiderate visitors . . .

   Rhee posted a topic in General Nursing

   I am feeling whiny today, and I am blaming it on the pregnancy hormones . . . I just want to know why oh why anyone would think that it is appropriate to visit a postpartum unit with your three children who all have lice . . . and tell us after you ...

8. Circumcision at change of shift?

   Rhee posted a topic in Ob/Gyn

   I was just wondering what other hospitals do about this. Where I work, when the OB is ready to do the circ, that's when it happens. This morning, an OB wanted to circ a baby at five minutes to seven, and all I wanted to do was finally, finally, fi...

9. Anyone going baby friendly?

   Rhee replied to babyktchr's topic in Ob/Gyn

   When I take a bf baby to the nursery, I tell the parents something like, "Your baby breastfed at ten pm, so he will probably be back to nurse sometime around one. I will bring him back earlier if he is hungry, if he's still sleeping, he may be back...

10. Anyone going baby friendly?

    Rhee replied to babyktchr's topic in Ob/Gyn

    As a postpartum nurse, I do not supplement breastfed babies with formula unless the parents request for the baby to be supplemented. I kind of take offense to the above statement. We don't go around just giving formula to breastfed babies. I have ...

11. What would you have said to this CNA

    Rhee replied to zofran's topic in Relations

    In every job that I have ever held, even when I worked at fast food places in high school, it was always made clear that racist comments would not be tolerated. We are all adults and we are all responsible for what comes out of our mouths. Using ra...

12. RN's/CNA's...what's with this attitude?

    Rhee replied to cherrybreeze's topic in Relations

    I was a NA on the same floor where I'm now an RN. I work in postpartum. I can remember thinking --she only has 3 rooms, 6 patients, and I have eight rooms, 16 people. It will be so much easier when I am a nurse. I can say now that I didn't have any...

13. fundal checks

    Rhee replied to short1978's topic in Ob/Gyn

    I work in postpartum. We do fundal checks on our C-Section patients on admission, then every four hours for the next 24 hours, then q 8 hours after that. For vaginal deliveries, fundal checks are upon admission and then q 8 hours. Of course, that's...

14. Dealing with personal prejudices?

    Rhee replied to purplepanda's topic in Ob/Gyn

    You already know that you have a potential problem, and that is half of the battle already. It seems like you are concerned that you don't want to upset anyone or treat them differently, so just be aware of your words, tone of voice, and body langua...

15. I didn't realize how she would take it to heart

    Rhee posted a topic in Ob/Gyn

    A few weeks ago I had a patient who was having a hard time breastfeeding. She told me that she wasn't how committed she was to breastfeeding, and that she just wanted to try it while she was in the hospital and help was available. We had a long conv...