oh night shift! I feel your pain, I ALWAYS wake up around 230 and couldn't really tell you why. I have found that if I go to the gym for about an hour around 630PM and force myself to stay up until...
DeliveryRN2007 replied to nurseygurlie's topic in Ob/Gyn
Not sure where it is that you work but where I am L&D (my spot), nursery, and PP aren't "fluff". I don't see how a 29 weeker found unresponsive after having an eclampic seizure and now a brain...
DeliveryRN2007 replied to sh_eany's topic in General Nursing
It isn't like you are going up to non medical person or family member and disclosing that they have some form of contagious illness. PCTs are also drawing labs in some places. These people come in...
DeliveryRN2007 replied to sh_eany's topic in General Nursing
Personally, if I am dealing with someone's blood (finger stick) I would like to know if they have a bloodborne illness. I would wear gloves either way and would not (and never have) treated the...
DeliveryRN2007 replied to DeliveryRN2007's topic in General Nursing
Your post is making me re-evaluate why I got offended in the first place. It isn't so much that I got an opinion that I disagreed with it was more so that I was expecting facts. & to the bolded,...
DeliveryRN2007 replied to Cammy84's topic in General Nursing
I think it varies from state to state and even from hospital to hospital. I worked at a hospital as a nurse tech a few years back and we were allowed to start IVs and draw labs but at the hospital...
DeliveryRN2007 replied to DeliveryRN2007's topic in General Nursing
I understand that there are varying opinions. I posted here to get facts about programs not to hear opinions about why I shouldn't go for it. The question about experience was pertaining to NP...
Oh man! I truly HATE those posts by people about how "the older nurses are so mean to me because of my youth and how pretty I am"!!! No, the older nurses are mean to you because you constantly walk...
DeliveryRN2007 replied to DeliveryRN2007's topic in General Nursing
I went back and edited my original because it read as though I thought 2 years was a lot of experience. The bolded is exactly why your post was offensive. With 2 years, I REALIZE that I am very new...
DeliveryRN2007 replied to DeliveryRN2007's topic in General Nursing
Thanks RNewbie! & GAVagabond RN, My intention is to go back to school in a year or 2 and go part time (University of Oklahoma has a 3 year part time program in Tulsa for a FNP if I change my mind...
Hello all! I wasn't sure where to post my questions so I apologize in advance if this isn't the right place! :) I am currently a Labor and Delivery nurse in Oklahoma. I have recently been thinking...
DeliveryRN2007 replied to BellasMommyOBRN's topic in Ob/Gyn
The facility that I work in has seperate units for L&D, Nursery, and PP. All of the L&D nurses are cross trained to nursery and postpartum but the nursery and postpartum nurses only cross...