LexiRN2

I'm curious to know what labor and delivery nurses honestly think of natural childbirth. When I say natural I'm referring to no epidural and alternative methods of pushing other than laying in bed with your legs in the stirrups. I am a nurse myself, ...

You prove a very good point about nurses being pulled in too many directions which leads me to my next question... What is the nurse to patient ratio on a l&d unit? I don't expect my nurse to hold my hand through labor but it would be nice to kno...

My city doesn't have any birthing centers. My OB practice typically has the midwives do deliveries as long as everything is going fine. I'll need to look up hospital policies and find out how much I'll be able to try and dictate some of these things....

I said I want to use methods other than the lithotomy position in my original posting

Thanks for the input! The only components of my birth plan so far are to not get any pain meds or epidural and be able to walk around to cope with the pain. I've heard of stories where women want the same and the minute they're admit to the l&d u...

If you go to a scrub store that sells stethoscopes they'll let you check out all of them and you can take a listen yourself to see what works for you.

The ohio board of nursing typically has your license number posted the next day if you've passed... hope that helps!

I agree! As a new grad myself, I felt nursing school wasted too much time on care plans that aren't used in hospitals anymore. Anyone making rules for nurses should be able to function at the bedside! It sounds harsh, but a lot of the newer nurses ju...

I used a cheap stethoscope in nursing school because I often left them places. I waited until I started working to get a nice expensive littmann stethoscope. I did just fine with the cheap stethoscopes personally... and color doesn't really matter. M...

wecan11- I think you'll be fine! Everyone has their own opinions and experiences and it will be a great learning opportunity for you! At worst, if you don't like it you can always just find another job in a different area. That's the wonderful part o...

SDALPN is right about a lot of that, but most agencies will not send nurses new to home health to the hardest cases. She'll more than likely be sent to an "easier" case to start out and make sure that she's ready to handle the tougher kids. Very true...

I used to work as an lpn in pediatric home health and personally its not an area that I prefer. I didn't like seeing sick kids first off. It just hurt me too much. But anyway, I would suggest being prepared to deal with parents that you will not alwa...

Are you going to do visits or shift work?

I recently interviewed and the few tips that I can give are not to worry much about practicing interview questions because you don't want your answers to seem rehearsed, make sure that you give specific examples when asked questions like "tell me a s...

CONGRATS!

It means that your results probably haven't been delivered yet. Be sure that it says results successfully delivered before trying.

I've officially passed! I have a license number!!!

PVT really works! My quick results confirmed that I passed!

Today my quick results confirm, I passed nclex RN!

Congrats!!!!

No worries, just celebrate! The good pop-up won't be going anywhere! Hopefully FL BON will have a license number posted for you Monday! I'm waiting until then to officially change over to my new initials... RN! YAY!

Hilife21- make sure that it says your results were successfully delivered before trying the trick! And try not to worry about it, just relax!

I'll be able to do the quick results tomorrow afternoon, have to wait 48 hrs after you test. My official license number should be posted on the Board of Nursing's website by Monday morning though. Ohio posts license numbers on the next business day. ...

I got that yesterday after my exam! Means we passed!

I had 90 questions, about 25 of them were SATA and another 30 was medication questions. I didn't get any math questions, did have 1 ABG question. I had about 8 or 9 of the ones where you put everything in order. I came out feeling very dumb, had to b...