shannonrn02

Interesting. What is the dosage of the Zosyn you use? We still do 30 minutes.

The hospital I work at went to specific colors for each patient care area to wear. Patients still think that the CNA's are their nurse. Also some of the techs that come up to the floor to do echos and such where white jackets so they can be mistaken for doctors. Now the nurses have to where a big "RN" sign below our name badge indicating that we are a nurse. Not all patients pay attention to this. We still have to educate them.

I believe that Med/Surg is a good area of nursing to start for a new nurse. You get experience in many different systems of the human body. In OB/GYN this type of nursing is very specialized and your focus will be only with pregnant moms and caring for the babies. If you choose to go to a different area of nursing later it will be like your a new grad all over again. This is only my opinion. The best part of my job are my patients. I love meeting new people and learning about their lives, but yes there sometimes comes tradedy such as a horrible diagnosis or death, but you could also have that in the OB side of nursing. Personally, I do not think I could deal with the death of a newborn. The least part I had about my job would probably be how some of the patients do not appreciate the medical personel and treat us like their at a spa. But you are going to have that anywhere you go. Hope this helps.

Regarding the breast milk wives tail. What about having to drink warm liquids because if you drink cold liquids when the baby drinks them they get cold. I think this had something to do with religious beliefs, but beliefs that are hard to change.