breastfeedingRN

Hey. Just wondering if you use the Bilichek meter to screen for jaundice and if so, I have a question. We always do ours in a dimly lit room. But, I have heard of nurses from other hospitals say they do it in normal light and have no issues with it...

Thanks guys! It just gets to be a pain dimming the lights when everyone else is doing assessments, charting, etc. We do it in the room we do our midnight assessments and weight checks in. I might just call the Bilichek people and ask them.

Hi! I work in a hospital that has L&D, Couplet Care and Antepartum units, (well baby nursery and NICU, too, but that isn't the issue right now). Those of us that work in Couplet Care are expected to have a basic fetal monitoring class and take a...

smiling, i figured that orientation would be more than a few days, which is probably why none of us has been trained. i am not even sure how our antepartum unit works. they are a separate unit and usually have their own nurses, just lately they hav...

Thanks for your responses. I totally agree that if we were given a proper orientation, that it would be okay, but we aren't given one and are short staffed right now so I can't see that happening for awhile. The main problem is that none of us are ...

i work postpartum, so maybe this wouldn't work in L&D, but i have little blank cards that i give them and i tell them what a pleasure it was to have them as my patient and a quick note about anything we did in particular, like struggling with bre...

are you at desert? i work at tbird. hi!! i work in couplet care.

I totally agree that my job is to advocate for my patient's. Being a new nurse I sometimes am not sure of what I am supposed to do, etc. I probably should have called at midnight, but I really thought that if I got her over the hump with the Morphi...

A little late, but I work for Banner Health and really love it!

i did the part time program at glendale for my last 2 semesters and i loved it. worked out great for those who needed to work FT and also for SAHMoms like me. the instructors were great and i am so glad to have found a PT program. in my opinion it ...

i am in love with my z-coils. i used to always have foot and leg pain after a 12 hour shift, but i never do now. i have the clogs and they are great!

When I worked in peds as an MA, saw a couple where they wouldn't stop bleeding for awhile and infections. Never anything like that. I don't believe in routine circumcision, so I am soo glad I work nights and we rarely ever have to assist with one. ...

ROTFLMAO at that. this thread is hilarious yet sad at the same time the things women subjected themselves to.

Deb-love your avatar!!! Anyway, I was only on mag for 12 hours then I was in the hospital for another 36 hours after the mag was dc'd. I totally feel for anyone who has to be on mag. That stuff sucked. I don't think I could have had a vag deliver...

I thought my nurses were just mean not letting me have my baby with me except to feed her. It was double rooms and they would bring her to me to nurse her and then take her away as soon as she was done. They said I needed to rest to keep my BP low ...

be yourself, do what you want to do! it is probably a little easier to get through school if you don't have to worry about kids, spouse, significant other, etc. if you are happy where you are right now in life, that is what matters! you are young!...

i totally respect your opinion and i have my reasons for mine. my main problem is with people who go to direct entry programs and have basically no experience being a nurse and their title is a nurse practitioner. or have no desire to actually be a...

well, from my own personal experience being on mag, i was in L/D the whole 12 hours I was on mag. mag wasn't started until about 2 hours after i delivered when my pressures weren't going down as expected. i was transferred to postpartum after the m...

Forgot to say that I also tell them that if it gets poop or pee on it, to wash it with some warm soapy water, rinse and then let it dry thoroughly. Mainly I tell them to keep it dry and clean and to report any redness, swelling, bleeding or discharg...

That's okay. I was really confused at first, thinking "I was just saying she has large fontanels." Then it hit me that you were thinking I was diagnosing her with XXX. No problem at all.:chuckle

I try as hard as I can to be a good nurse to my patient's and part of being a good nurse is being an advocate for the patient. I had a couplet on Sunday and the baby had some things that were just not right about her. First off, she had very large...

The reason I choose to see NPs is because I hope they have a different attitude than PAs and physicians. They have been there on the patient side. I always ask the office staff if the NP I am planning on seeing worked as a nurse first and for how l...

Nurs546-Thanks! It is hard for me to talk to the docs, too and I was an MA for 8 years and worked with docs all the time! I think not knowing them well has a lot to do with it. I rarely see them since I work nights and don't have a real feel for t...

I absolutely love my Z-coils. (http://www.zcoil.com) I work 12 hour shifts and by the time I get off at the end of the night, my feet could still keep going. I NEVER have foot or leg pain anymore. I used to have to put my feet up after a 12 hour ...

Here in the Phoenix area, I started out at $20.23 with a 15% differential for nights. I think that is about the going rate here.