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Hello everyone! Is your institution being required or suggesting that L/D nurses be certified in ACLS ? We just went Through Joint Commision survey and this is what they were implying. Any comments or information will greatly be appreciated.

Hi All! My name is Karen and I work as a L/D nurse on an LDRP unit. Our Nurse Manager has selected a new monitoring system called OB TraceVue. Has anyone worked with type of computerized Fetal Monitoring system? Any likes or dislikes? What are the b...

Hello Everyone, Cost Savings.....We are at it again in our department....Does anyone out there have any suggestions? We have become pretty good at cost savings and I cannot think of anymore. We have eliminated our maternity care pack, perineal ice pa...

I am in great need of where to go find written policy and procedures for the OB setting. Any hints on where to go would greatly be appreciated. CYTOTEC is one that I am looking for right now amooong others .Thanks for any replies. Karen

:balloons: hello to anyone who reads this post i am an experienced nurse who has worked in a variety of areas except the intensive care realm and cardiac land.. most of my experience is in maternity care in l/d, postpartum, level i & ii nurs...

I have only ever worked with a Doula a few times. It was great! I wish we had more of them in the area. Unfortunately we do not. I was thinking of becoming certified and starting the service. I love being a L/D nurse but the thought of not charting ...

We take on call time at our level II facility. We schedule 4/4/4. Our call time consists of 3p - 7a coverage. We are required to take 8-12 hours per pay period (every 2 weeks). We cover 7 days a week. We do not cover daylight shift becasue it is easi...

It's me again. Any policies and or procedures for administration of oral or buccal cytotec anyone is willing to share? New physician from another state wants to use cytotec and it is up to me to help formulate a policy and procedure. Any help greatly...

I am taking the LCCE exam soon. I have been a L/D RN since 1995 I have studied the manual but I am wondering how difficult the exam is. I guess I am a little worried. I think deep down we have all been scarred by Nursing School Exams and the threat ...

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We have one physician who is new to our facility and she uses 50mcg every 3 hours orally for IUFD's. I also am looking for information to write a procedure for it's use. Let me know if find and good information or already written procedures.

Thanks Mark for the information.

Any policies on IV push terbutaline for intrauterine resuscitation? I have not yet been able to find any. Any help would greatly be appreciated. Karen

Thanks for the info Denise. We re all excited about using the new system.

Hi my name is Karen and I'm an RN currently working LDRP and Clinical Nursing instructor for PEDS. I just would like to talk to and find out what is going on out there in the World of Nursing everywhere. I'm currently attempting to pursue my MSN. I s...

Well, At the facility that I work in we had one woman who delivered her last 3 children and each one of them had been given 12 names. Each one though had a similar first name: FUQUA ...

Hi Teresa, I work in an LDRP setting. Administration believe you me gets the "most bang for it's buck". In this type of setting we are all cross trained. With high census everyone is DR and the post-partum nurse is everything. It can be very exhausti...

I work in a community hospital with a pediatric dept. next to their OB dept. We take all kids any post-partum overflow ( which is very rare) and any and all adults when we have open beds. How are your Peds. dept. being staffed and what other patients...

I have worked in an LDRP setting since 1993. We are all cross trained to L/D , Post-partum, Level II nursery and scrub nursing. It is a concept that has evolved over the years trouble shooting what needed changed. I like it. It can get a bit hairy at...

I have been a Nurse for only 10 years now but the changes and stres level is significantly not upto my liking. How can we change this? I have not gotten a raise in 2 years , the cost cutting measures are getting ridiculous, and I'm going back to scho...

I will be teaching Pediatric Clinical. Soon. Funny thing is that in the summer time sometimes there are NO KIDS to practice on. I need some suggestions on what some of your Pediatric clinical Instructors did when pediatric census was low or none. Ple...

I am teaching Pediatric Clinical Next Week. Funny thing though in the Summer time there usually isn't alot or any kids. Please give me some suggestions as to what other instructors do with the students that they have when census is low or none. PLEAS...

I am in the process of starting my MSN through Graceland College. I have looked into many other schools but I need to work full-time and not request certain days off. I work night shift and it's a hassel. So doing this type of on-line and mail order ...

Usually just the delivery Nurse attends the delivery along with the OB DR. if it's a problem delivery we call the PEDS DR and the CRNA but usually it's just the RN

Well let's begin. We have 10 ldrp rooms at our hosppital. We do 850-900 deliveries per year. Staffing is 1 mom/baby RN, 1 nursery RN ( we have a level II nursery) this nurse if there are no babies in nursery( because all babies room in with the mom u...