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  1. Teachers' Group Votes Against Helping Children w/Diabetes

    Mermaid4 replied to ham22's topic in Patient Safety Issues

    Well, thankyou for acknowledging your misunderstanding. No where did I EVER say the teachers you speak of don't care. Care doesn't predispose that cognizance is apparent...Nothing anyone says here...

  2. Stimulating newborns to cry

    Mermaid4 replied to nrsnan_1's topic in Ob/Gyn

    10 minutes ? EVERY baby? That seems extreme. I am with everyone else here. Are these "bad babies"? Even so, if they have to be stimulated that vigorously, I would hope someone would have thought of...

  3. Guess What?!!!

    Mermaid4 replied to Baby Catcher's topic in Ob/Gyn

    Good for YOU! I just checked the computer at work and someone who was enrolled in cnm school but can't go is selling all her books for a total of five hundred dollars...Is that a good price for never...

  4. No central monitor?

    Mermaid4 replied to cabbage patch rn's topic in Ob/Gyn

    I miss central monitoring too but mostly because you can chart in real time and see what is going on while you are in another room and thus, chart that you saw the strip. We did it before central...

  5. anxiety, medical knowledge, things going grrossly wrong and the trauma....

    Mermaid4 replied to UnchainedFever's topic in Ob/Gyn

    Either epidural or hemorrhage...Sounds like a scary scene for you but glad tohear your baby and the mom and dad are ok ( and the gramma)..Sounds anesthesia related to me and an increase in fluids (...

  6. Teachers' Group Votes Against Helping Children w/Diabetes

    Mermaid4 replied to ham22's topic in Patient Safety Issues

    Interesting. I see that recognition of a change in a child's behavior as extremely important with teaching or any profession connected to children. Using that point, it wouldn't "be exactly fair" to...

  7. Teachers' Group Votes Against Helping Children w/Diabetes

    Mermaid4 replied to ham22's topic in Patient Safety Issues

    Good points here BUT I don't expect teachers to give injections for diabetic emergencies...I DO expect them to recognize an emergency and since I used to be a diabetic teaching nurse, I don't think it...

  8. Teachers' Group Votes Against Helping Children w/Diabetes

    Mermaid4 replied to ham22's topic in Patient Safety Issues

    I see everyone's point here , HOWEVER, if you are taking on the responsibility of MY sick child in your class or school, you had better be at least somewhat cognizant of signs, symptoms and avenues of...

  9. Teachers' Group Votes Against Helping Children w/Diabetes

    Mermaid4 replied to ham22's topic in Patient Safety Issues

    I am just expecting them to have cognizant first hand knowledge, just as we expect family members to have...Other than that, I understand everyones reluctance to have them be responsible enough to...

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

    Mermaid4 replied to klondike's topic in General Nursing

    I think that if any hospital or nursing related institution even TRIES this, the mass exodus of nursing staff will be likened to a stampede and they will be sorely affected, even more so than...

  11. Teachers' Group Votes Against Helping Children w/Diabetes

    Mermaid4 replied to ham22's topic in Patient Safety Issues

    Looks like I am the odd one out here, but I stand by my feeling that teachers ought to at least be somewhat involved..I do understand the reluctance, but in my years of diabetic teaching, it didn't...

  12. Teachers' Group Votes Against Helping Children w/Diabetes

    Mermaid4 replied to ham22's topic in Patient Safety Issues

    If you are going to be a teacher and be responsible for children you DO need to recognize the signs and intervene if necessary. As a former diabetic teaching nurse, I think it is ludicrous not to at...

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

    Mermaid4 replied to klondike's topic in General Nursing

    Nope. My time is

  14. Question about checking for rupture of membranes (and LONG, about my birth, sorry)

    Mermaid4 replied to tuppence's topic in Ob/Gyn

    If the fluid is obvious, we do a nitrazine swipe ( because we are not allowed to do the actual speculum exam here) either of the peri area or the pad the woman brought in....That has to be done before...

  15. Thank you L&D nurses

    Mermaid4 replied to katesmom's topic in Ob/Gyn

    Glad that you had such a great experience..That sort of thing is why we do it...I never planned to be a labor and delivery nurse. I had had it with critical care and needed a change...The first thing...

  16. Home birth vs. hospital

    Mermaid4 replied to rnmi2004's topic in Ob/Gyn

    To the student who asked about everyone in this thread agreeing on the same thing, do a few years in the field and then get back to

  17. Home birth vs. hospital

    Mermaid4 replied to rnmi2004's topic in Ob/Gyn

    In the home births I have been involved with, both were not planned, that is, those children were determined to be born quickly. I have nothing against home birth and in fact, it is a lovely idea, but...

  18. Do your OBs do circs everyday?

    Mermaid4 replied to dawngloves's topic in Ob/Gyn

    You know what, to answer (sort of) a previous poster...I have five sons...They range in age from 2 to 23...None of them are circ'd. It was never an issue at school for the oldest ones, the middle ones...

  19. Mandatory meetings and night shift

    Mermaid4 replied to Blackcat99's topic in Geriatric, LTC

    Wow, anyone who isn't attending to the needs just as much on the night shift as any other shift, is certainly someone I would be cautious to allow people to care for my family..When I worked on a LTC,...

  20. Rautenberg antibody...

    Mermaid4 posted a topic in Ob/Gyn

    We have a mom who delivered who is A positive but was discovered to ave a jka antibody, or Rautenberg antibody in her blood. Thus, her newborn is being monitored for jaundice etc...Has anyone heard of...

  21. Rautenberg antibody...

    Mermaid4 replied to Mermaid4's topic in Ob/Gyn

    Thankyou SO much..Bili on the first day went from 4 to 6 but the family went home on the third day so don't know what went on...I will most definitely post this on the unit to indicate the importance...

  22. Do your OBs do circs everyday?

    Mermaid4 replied to dawngloves's topic in Ob/Gyn

    Peds do the circs here and rarely are they NOT done before the baby

  23. Lowest H/H I ever saw...

    Mermaid4 replied to my2sons's topic in CCU, Coronary, Cardiac

    13 in a gyn patient who actually walked up to the floor. She, to say the least, was very pale, but not as pale as I was when I got the results of her labs. She was a vag bleed who felt well enough to...

  24. The best manager you ever had?

    Mermaid4 replied to Ruby Vee's topic in General Nursing

    The one I had in 1982 who, during a discussion with two irate physicians over one of the nurses who actually appropriately stood up to them, said, "Once I have spoken to the nurse involved in your...

  25. Mad at my manager!

    Mermaid4 replied to pebbles1977's topic in Ob/Gyn

    Not to pick on all managers, especially since I am from a time when they weren't always like that BUT once I found a notebook in the lounge after a meeting between managers who were orienting our new...