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  1. Question about pitocin after delivery

    Mermaid4 replied to MommyLauraRN's topic in Ob/Gyn

    Most of our patients get pit but not all if there are no problems and no iv access..Depends upon individual factors. You can also give up to 100 units of pit in 100cc lr if you have to though I...

  2. Question about pitocin after delivery

    Mermaid4 replied to MommyLauraRN's topic in Ob/Gyn

    Most of our patients get pit but not all if there are no problems and no iv access..Depends upon individual factors. You can also give up to 100 units of pit in 100cc lr if you have to though I...

  3. How Has "Reality TV" (A Baby Story, etc) Affected Your Work?

    Mermaid4 replied to BabyRN2Be's topic in Ob/Gyn

    I forgot to inlcude this...Last week we had one of those wild deliveries where you are trying to put an iv into the arm ( or somewhere) of a flailing patient..SOMEhow Imanaged to get it in but we...

  4. How Has "Reality TV" (A Baby Story, etc) Affected Your Work?

    Mermaid4 replied to BabyRN2Be's topic in Ob/Gyn

    Lets see....The doctor is always there, or always there on time...The nurses are calm AND have time to be interviewed on camera. NO one is screaming. NO one is being mean to the nurses. The...

  5. Family history - irrelevant in modern obstetrics?

    Mermaid4 replied to reprise's topic in Ob/Gyn

    WHAT?????? I always ask because I have found, even though most of our docs disagree, that a woman often has a similar labor history as her mother, and more than once, because I bothered to ask, I have...

  6. Anyone using Nitronox in OB?

    Mermaid4 replied to Tess RNC's topic in Ob/Gyn

    I have never heard of it...Goes to show you how much I have been

  7. what's your "soft spot" patient?

    Mermaid4 replied to shay's topic in Ob/Gyn

    I love them all..Even when I "hate" em, I love em..I can find something good in just about

  8. Birth plan help (again) - assisted delivery

    Mermaid4 replied to reprise's topic in Ob/Gyn

    We don't do High forceps..If forceps are required they are low forceps and then, only one

  9. Birth plan help (again) - assisted delivery

    Mermaid4 replied to reprise's topic in Ob/Gyn

    Obviously we try to avoid ANY sort of unneccesary intervention, but if it is between forceps or vacuum, the vacuum is less dangerous in most cases..Have your daughter interview her provider and ask...

  10. Blatant Nursing "No-No's"........what's your worst???

    Mermaid4 replied to anndoodle's topic in General Nursing

    Peachy, I too am so sorry for the loss of your Maw Maw....I feel protective of any family members in the hospital..I remember telling a nurse on a stepdown progressive care unit in a major hospital in...

  11. Abusive, controlling L*D preceptor-any new grads experiencing this?

    Mermaid4 replied to Nursesuzi's topic in Ob/Gyn

    Well good for you for recognizing such an important thing early on. Then it is up to her manager to talk with her to curtail her behavior or failing that, to at least address it with her. You have...

  12. Abusive, controlling L*D preceptor-any new grads experiencing this?

    Mermaid4 replied to Nursesuzi's topic in Ob/Gyn

    After awhile as a nurse, you get to figure out how people are...If she were a grouchy controlling PATIENT, you would have to try and figure out some way to get through to her. Sometimes it is as...

  13. Odds of getting an OB job as a new grad?

    Mermaid4 replied to ER1010's topic in Ob/Gyn

    These days in many places , pretty good, which is too bad in a way because you can really benefit from some background in other areas like med surg and the like...Wish you all you wish for, however,...

  14. "A monkey can be trained to do what you nurses do"

    Mermaid4 replied to angel337's topic in General Nursing

    Yep, another rocket scientist control freak who passes for a doctor...I calmly tell docs like that ( such as the one we recently had refuse to come in to check an epidural on a screaming 24 week fetal...

  15. I have a military question

    Mermaid4 replied to psychnursenks's topic in Government, Military

    The rules vary depending upon what branch...Don't rely on the recruiter as they often will tell you pretty much anything you want to hear in order to recruit you. Power of attorney and a viable plan...

  16. new grad RN- want to quit nursing

    Mermaid4 replied to sax_journey's topic in General Nursing

    Of COURSE you can borrow any line that might interest or inform you. Thats what I mean about helping each other and doing the best we can....And, thats what we are here for after all....Take care...

  17. Nurses, Will you work OT for straight pay?

    Mermaid4 replied to klondike's topic in General Nursing

    Kerry wouldn't fix the problem...And, although Bush isn't my favorite, if Kerry were in or does get in, I am absolutely certain we might be speaking Arabic in the very near future. That is why...

  18. new grad RN- want to quit nursing

    Mermaid4 replied to sax_journey's topic in General Nursing

    I have to tell you quite honestly that it is NOT unusual to feel this way, ESPECIALLY with nursing. It can be scary and overwhelming. So many things to remember. So many things to worry about...I...

  19. Quick question regarding pitocin...

    Mermaid4 posted a topic in Ob/Gyn

    Hi there, For years we have not refrigerated routinely vials of pit that we use in delivery or birthing rooms because they get used up so quickly. At various times we have refrigerated them if...

  20. Quick question regarding pitocin...

    Mermaid4 replied to Mermaid4's topic in Ob/Gyn

    I already said I agreed. We of course have methergine and hemabate available, but I don't keep them in my pocket as they do have to be

  21. Quick question regarding pitocin...

    Mermaid4 replied to Mermaid4's topic in Ob/Gyn

    Rarely but they think if they leave just a little bit on the floor we would be discouraged from mixing our own. I would use it to mix my own anyway at the rate the current batch is behaving. But, you...

  22. Quick question regarding pitocin...

    Mermaid4 replied to Mermaid4's topic in Ob/Gyn

    We have shared it with them. Even called Brigham and Women's Pharmacy in Boston. Both disagree with the refrigeration fact and Michelle Murray's conference. We are only nurses after all. The goal is...

  23. Quick question regarding pitocin...

    Mermaid4 replied to Mermaid4's topic in Ob/Gyn

    My ohter "old nurse" issue is that I prefer to mix my own pit rather than hang something that someone else mixed...It took me awhile to get used to premixed mag sulfate too..Guess I am the old...

  24. Quick question regarding pitocin...

    Mermaid4 replied to Mermaid4's topic in Ob/Gyn

    This pit is mixed in normal saline and double concentrated. I thought it was my imagination but since we have been using it we have had several inductions that last longer than usual with a speed up...

  25. Activate this forum...Anyone have to take call?

    Mermaid4 replied to JMinCO's topic in Colorado Nursing

    Yes, we have one flex night a week ( eight hours) or some people who do twelve hour shifts have four hour flex times one night a week. That allows perdiems to come in and sometimes works out well if...