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While I realize we ALL promote less intervention and everything that goes along with "natural" delivery, I just HAVE to share this birth plan. It arrived along with a smiling primip with ruptured membranes on a crazy night that included a twin mom ar...

Actually, though I would NOT want to do it, I had an OB guy tell me that in some countries they use up to 100 Units a bag..I haven't personally seen that and hope not to, but I guess in the OB arena, according to this particular OB, who was from the ...

Hi there, this sounds like the place to ask the question I have...I had to scrub the other day in OB and thank fully, didn't have a seizure because it wasn't emergent, but as long as I have been in OB, I still can't keep the instruments straight. Is ...

Hi Everyone, I have been away for awhile but wanted to share this tribute to my mom, who is going through some medical issues. On behalf of myself and her, this is dedicated to all you moms for Mother's Day...I am putting this together in book for...

This whole thing is scary and difficult.....I mean, the thought of what to do when contemplating one way or the other. It is such a personal thing.....I don't see it as a quick fix but I can see how some people would...Good points all around...

So many stories.....None of them scary and all of them poignant. I am honored to have seen what I've seen....None of my stories are creepy and all defy description...Such as the "beautiful" death of a family member in that it was expected and when it...

I was going to suggest a bellvue bridge but then that would date me terribly....

It is normal to question whether or not to report something especially when you just know it is a big deal. Even a "small" error is a big deal when you are the one who did it, but you will find for your own peace of mind as well as peer and doc respe...

You know, it is what it is...You know how you feel and not everyone has to feel the same. You have to let your mom know her boundaries with you. That would be like you insisiting she tell you all about her sex life or something equally personal.....I...

You know, it takes awhile. And nursing isn't easy by any means. It is always a learning process. I remember having worked for several years as a nursing assistant before going to nursing school so figured I had bed making down to a science. Well, gue...

I have a problem with people who are "no info" patients, or those who have "this patient's file is confidential", tagged on ONLY because I thought with the new guidelines, EVERYones' records are confidential...

Well, there was the one time a patient asked me to check the boil on her tweety bird, which caused me to question my decision to do a voluntary double shift from nights to days. Suffice it to say that the boil was located in the netherregions of this...

AS far as my last place of work, we were at liberty to collect urine on people we considered "at risk". However, a random screen of a lawyer's wife that turned out positive rapidly resulted in a policy change that involved both consent and an order. ...

Welcome aboard! Looking forward to sharing...Martha

Patient care is much more than just about what we learn. And no patient of mine has ever doubted my ability because I was able to care for them physically as well as just about every other faction. I think it is insulting to think nursing shouldn't i...

This is so sad but I am wondering if the child is brain dead, how he can be squeezing moms hand, etc.

Last I heard Tom told the media that Katie is now called Kate because she has grown up, and is a woman who bore a child...And I hear her natural delivery was via an epidural. I wonder what "Kate" thinks...

Most of the early problems with this kids end up with hypoplastic lungs even if mom makes it. Sad indeed.

This is a neat topic..We do often say fully in New England but with travelers and military people from all over, you also hear complete but to me "complete' means fully effaced...:)

Holy cow...Not a place I would want to be ALONE...Especially with litigation the way it is....ANYthing can happen. We just had a "healthy" mom with no risk factors and a slightly elevated BP, no headache, spots or ANY symptomology (no clonus or probl...

We only do c/s with an active leision. If a leision is picked up in pregnancy , the woman is treated. There is no reason to do a csection with inactive herpes....

I have a problem in this show and others where they try to show nurses in an authentic light, that they and those other shows have doctors in charge of nurses and their issues, when it is NURSES in charge of nursing issues. Other than that, not a bad...

Great poem..The thing is that no one anywhere can ever make a perfect decision for every patient. And I don't think anyone here is attempting to minimize the fact that an early pregnancy loss isn't important or traumatic. If I brought my child in for...

I can't even come close....We have a Hazel or Felix scattered about. I guess we must be boring where I am...:)

It is always a good idea to do med surg first or some sort of basic nursing because you do use those skills. Especially since most people want and need experienced specialty nurses, however that said, as was mentioned, there are probably programs out...