obnurse/educator

Your birth plan is perfectly reasonable. I like your approach - I have seen some pretty confrontational birth plans. Wishing you a beautiful birth and a healthy baby!

I LOVE being a clinical instructor. It is hard work, but very rewarding. I do make significantly less teaching than I do as an ob nurse, though.

I have had and still do have many nursing roles. But of all the things I do, helping a woman give birth is still the most fulfilling. I had my OB ephinany about 4 months before I graduated from nursing school. I started school thinking I would wanted to do anything BUT OB nursing.

I got nothing for my RNC-OB or IBCLC. It was all at my own expense also. The hospital did pay for my TNCC, BLS, NRP, EFM courses, and my ACLS instructor courses.

I am near graduation from WGU with my MSN Education Specialty. I also obtained by BSN through WGU. I love the format and have been able to fit everything in to my busy schedule. Several of my colleagues at the community college where I teach part time are WGU grads.

I am almost finished with my MSN - Education Specialty. I am teaching part time at a community college and will be continuing to do that while also working PRN at 2 nearby hospitals. I have not found any full time positions which utilize my MSN.

Our census has been very low. Since we are are now following AWHONN's staffing guidelines for Critical Access hospitals, we no longer get put on call. We do, however, have to float to med-surg.

I am just leaving a position after 5 years with the facility. First, let me say, I LOVE being a nurse. I especially love being an ob nurse. The politics finally drove me out. Furthering my education was the beginning of the end of my career here. From the time I started back to school, management above me who did not hold advanced degrees did their best to put me in my place. They succeeded. I did not experience the horizontal violence common in nursing, but rather a complete lack of professionalism from midle management on up.

Congratulations on your new job. I hope you grow to love OB nursing as much as I do. Don't be afraid to ask questions. You will be making decisions regarding two lives. It never hurts to get a second opinion. And don't forget to nurse the patient, not just the monitor. Childbirth is beautiful, amazing, and sometimes SCARY. Embrace the highs, because the lows will occur. My family can usually tell when I have had a gerat delivery, because I come with the "birth high" look on my face.

I got nothing when I obtained my Inpatient Obstetric certification, nothing when I became an IBCLC, and nothing when I got my BSN. I am almost done with my MSN, and will be getting nothing for it, too. What will I do with all this? Hopefully find a better job, with an organization which values education.