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I agee with mobility , was her bladder full if she had an epidural that could have impeded descent etc. With epidurals the women dont have urges to void let alone push. After doing all that you could dont feel bad ( and I know that we do) if they wind up in a c/s. What I am havinga problem with is c/s on demand. How about that? The greatest joy is being a mother, the second greatest:balloons: joy is being a midwfe

I too am a graduate of a diploma program of nursing,we had clinicals at least 3-4 times a week for 3 months at a time. When we went to Ob we were there 3 months on differnet floors we had more than one patient and we were doing modified care plans this was before the nursing process. In my LPN school we worked the floor as staff couldnt give medications at all and still had class. Now here in Ky the graduates have to be a cna before applying to the program and after they graduate they apply to the hospital where they are suppose to precept them. Ok what is wrong with this picture? I now am an instructor in an LPN program and they are on the floor 2 days per week form 8-4 learning what i might ask? and they are supposed to be functional after graduation? I am reading all these thread and I am getting information about how not to instruct. We do group test on occasion and the students learn more from each other than me standing up in front of the class yapping. I havent used power point because i dont know how yet, but I am learning. I dont know what the future holds for nursing education , but keep those thread coming I will learn from them.

I am a new nurse educator, LPN nursing instructor, after 21 years as a Nurse midwife. I feel that you need to have the experience to be able to give the students the passion that you feel. I to am going back to school, to earn a Masters as a CNS, so that I can teach in an Assoicate nursing program. I am learning how to teach, which is not easy. So many times the students want you to give them the answers so they will not have to do any work. I think being a nurse educator is very challenging. i know the content and I am learning the methods. last year I went to Memphis TN to a conference for nurse educators and learned so much. It is not how you get up in front of the class and present the material but how the students take responsibility for learning themselves. I love the subject I am teaching and I am learning a new subject for me Pharmacology now if anyone can help me make this fun I would like to know especially after lunch.The greatest joy is being a mother , the second greatest joy is being a midwife

I am glad to read that you want to be a CNM, i did it the hard way midwifery school then BSN and working on MSN I am now teaching Ob in an LPN school I miss the closeness i had w my clients and run into them at Walmart a lot but @56 it was too much on this old body. make sure that you get into a practice that has your values w managed care it seems the bottom line is more important than patients. How do you save the world? one baby at a time good luck midwiftippitoes