Rhee

Rhee

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  1. 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...

  2. 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...

  3. 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...

  4. 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...

  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...

  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...

  7. 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...

  8. 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...

  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...

  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...

  11. What would you have said to this CNA

    Rhee replied to zofran's topic in Patient, Colleague 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...

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

    Rhee replied to cherrybreeze's topic in Patient, Colleague 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...

  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 lady partsl deliveries, fundal checks...

  14. 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...

  15. 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...

  16. Is there ANY department in nursing that I can avoid cleaning up poo?

    Rhee replied to Future-nurse's topic in General Nursing

    I work in postpartum. I deal with lots of baby poop, but hardly any mom poo. I find baby poo less offensive somehow. I just want to add that I find nursing a very humbling profession. People with...

  17. Is there ANY department in nursing that I can avoid cleaning up poo?

    Rhee replied to Future-nurse's topic in General Nursing

    I just have to say that anyone who tells a patient to wait to use the bathroom or to continue to sit in because of his or her own aversions to bodily fluids or anything else should not be a nurse....

  18. breastfeeding woes

    Rhee posted a topic in Ob/Gyn

    I'm a relatively new postpartum nurse, and I've experienced this situation a few times over the past several months. A few weeks ago, I had a patient that really made me think. Ethically, if a mom...

  19. CPCU & preceptorship

    Rhee posted a topic in Cardiac

    Hello, I'm in my last semester of nursing school, and I'm doing my last clinical in the cardiac progressive care unit with a preceptor. I'm wondering if there are any specific things that I should...

  20. My wife's birthday help!

    Rhee replied to slingamabob's topic in General Nursing

    What about an infant stethoscope if she's planning on staying in

  21. where to buy scrubs?

    Rhee posted a topic in Michigan Nursing

    Does anyone know of an actual store to buy scrubs at anywhere around in Warren, Madison Heights, Sterling Heights, or Troy? I know there's a life uniform nearby, but they seem rather expensive to me....

  22. What is the clinical schedule REALLY like at Baker?

    Rhee replied to maggiesmama's topic in Michigan Nursing

    I'm a student at Baker . . . each clinical starts with an orientation, it's usually a half of a day, about four hours, but it can be a full day depending on the clinical instructor. Fundamentals...

  23. School's hidden agenda, "NCLEX pass rate: Weed out students who will not pass"

    Rhee replied to Bala Shark's topic in General Students

    Nursing school is tough because we will be responsible for people's lives. And you can't be a nurse if you don't pass the NCLEX anyway, so how would making school any easier help? It's hard, there's...

  24. champagne enema

    Rhee posted a topic in General Students

    My textbook mentioned champagne enemas, but it didn't anything else about them. This seems really weird to me, I can't figure out why anyone would use champagne for an enema. It must be something to...

  25. champagne enema

    Rhee replied to Rhee's topic in General Students

    Okay, this is what my book says.... "Other enema solutions, such as milk and molasses, vegetable oils, hydrogen peroxide, and champagne are reported in literature. However, these types are rarely...