O'NanRn

thanks for your advice! They give me six months actually, it is a big hospital system and they stressed during the interview how strongly they felt a good orientation is so important. I believe they float between the maternity units because each area, although it's own area of the specailty, has at least the maternity aspect in common versus floating a nurse who is from med surg and is more familiar with TKAs and appys, at least thats the way I understand it.

Hello all! I am super excited! I was just offered the position to work in postpartum! I love all areas r/t ob nursing and I feel so blessed to have this opportunity! :heartbeat So now I'm trying to get ready for my first day and I need some help from all of you professionals! What do you recommend for nursing essentials? I want to have all the supplies ready so I can be prepared. I'm talking about equipment, clothing, learning materials, etc. At my particular hospital we float to the other OB units (antepartum/ high risk, and L&D) pretty readily based on census and are trained on all of them. I would really like to have the stuff in my locker so on any given day I'll have whatever is needed. Thank you!!!!

Thanks for the advice everyone! I am definately going to take one if offered. I heard back from the PP and they want me to come in today for a second interview. I have no clue what they will ask because they covered all of the basic interview questions the first time. I'm super excited to be asked back though!!

I gradutated recently and like so many could not find a job for the life of me. I ended up just going to a LTC facility but its not really where i wanted to be. I figured at least its something to get some experience. Now that i have been there for about only weeks I get 2 phone calls for interviews. One is for ER and another is Postpartum. Now i dont know what to do. I went to both just to see how it goes. I dont want to be unfair to where I am now by quitting so soon but I dont know if i can turn down a better opportunity. I have always wanted to be an OB nurse, its why i got into nursing, so the postpartum seemed great. But as far as long term goals I really want a unit that does all things maternity.. not just the PP. The ER looks awesome though too.. they are not connected to a hospital so the nurses do a little of everything. They also pay for many certs like ACLS, PALS, trauma etc. It would be a great experience before jumping into my specialty. I just dont know where to go. I feel so blessed to possibly have all these options and at the same time stressed!!! Any advice would be so appreciated!!