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Patient walks up to triage desk accompanied by her twelve family members, three suitcases and five pillows...... Patient: Hi! I'm having my baby, my doctor said he'd be here waiting on me, my contractions were every 20 minutes this morning, but they...

Aaccck! I just typed out a post and it disappeared into the ether....dang. Short version....I agree with all the stuff xtxrn said, you go sister!

Way back when there were actually techs/aides/CNAs on the floor every shift for real I remember these things - baths, oral care, linen changes- were done in a much more consistent manner.....I miss ya'll!! Now, I am more likely to come into a laborin...

Just saw your response post about having already worked at this facility for a while.....In this case, you're GOLDEN! Relax and enjoy your pregnancy!

Absolutely positively what MassED said!! Pregnancy is supposed to be treated like any other medical issue, which means you have every right to keep it to yourself. Although the flip side is that SOMETIMES it can be nice for your co-workers/charge nur...

Nope, no DEEP guilt, but I do feel bad for my co-workers as you mentioned. I'm also one of those pesky Part Time nurses that have the gall to choose NOT to work full-time and am very rarely able to work extra because of child care issues. I have to ...

Hmmm, Do RNs in the other specialties get as jaded and cynical as us L&D nurses? I've often wondered this....I was a pretty skeptical person even before nursing school, but in 16 years I have turned into one of the most unimpressed and unsympathe...

Yes, my facility repeatedly hires new grads into L&D and repeatedly beats them into the ground until they quit, have a nervous breakdown or somehow manage to struggle through the trenches despite it all. Usually 4-6 get hired every year, maybe on...

i saw a story on odd celebrity baby names just yesterday... jermaine jackson has a child (not sure if it's a girl or boy) named [color=yellowgreen]jermajesty i mean, seriously?

Here in L&D there's no push (or even mention of) CLC yet, thank god! RNC on the other hand is aggressively pushed, much to my dismay......yes, sadly I'm in the mid life crisis/burned out L&D nurse category....anywho, at my hospital we get a ...

# 1..Yeah, what cherrybreeze said.... why would you stress yourself out if you don't have to? You're talking about finding out definite answers in September! Safe sex only until September isn't really "putting off having a family" is it? Just makes s...

At my hospital (and the one I worked at previously 10 years ago) the L&D nurses do it all from pre-op until transfer to postpartum. This includes pre medication, shaving, pre-op checklist, dealing with patient and family, getting consents, callin...

Our hospital also uses the 12 hour rule for a covered setup. IDK for uncovered as we just never uncover until the provider is ready to gown up/delivery is imminent. Our techs say 2 hours for an OR to be "open" but IDK if this is a standard or somethi...

Instead of the "kudos", (or in addition to if you prefer!) we need some smiley icons that match each one of these poster types so we can chime in and vote on a type for each poster....now THAT would probably put me under the crap stirrer category, bu...

I'm not 100% sure, but I think this very issue is one of the current Joint Commission identified patient safety thingamajiggys. Their position on the matter is something like there should be an opportunity for the receiving nurse to receive report an...

Been doing mainly L&D for 16 years.....nope, no excitement. You're not crazy! The first job I had out of nursing school was in L&D in a big teaching hospital here where the staff is mostly older L&D "lifers" and the residents do most of t...

Once you've talked to your supervisor as discussed above, think long and hard using the info you gathered in the meeting. How much do you love/like/hate this job? Your co-workers? Management? The environment? The patients themselves? Do you have any ...

Ditto on what the previous two posters said...post partum should definitely LESS than where you are now, but it won't be NONE (lifting) either. The epidural moms (a good percentage of our patients here) and the C-Sections are the two worst offenders ...

Ooops and I completely forgot to mention touch....Caliotter3's post reminded me (thanks cali!) The be all and end all of bliss for my son is TOUCH. Rubbing, patting, hugging, kissing, everything. As an infant, he was inconsolable ALOT, so we were co...

First of all, bless you for seeking out more information to help you care for this child instead of sitting idly by as the girl sits in silence....This is a very emotional topic for me as I have a 12 year old with much the same issues as you've descr...

Speaking solely from the perspective of debt, you will appreciate the lower cost of Wagner tremendously once you've graduated and start working to pay it all off. Now, if your parents are paying for it, consider you're spending your/your kids inherit...

It certainly can't hurt and if it's what you're interested in, you'd probably enjoy it to boot! Go for it!

Good luck with getting transferred over when orientation is finished! In the meantime, have you tried to keep the same schedule for wake/sleep even when you're off? I mean, don't try to sleep at night on your days off if that's not what your body wan...

Here's another angle to consider: Is this an actual position that you would work fulltime or is it one of those sneaky "resource" positions? Meaning, if you get trained/certified, will you do the PICC placements/maintenance for your entire shift? Or ...

Oh No, I'm so sorry!! Which part is about to happen? If it's the quitting a good job b/c of a horrendous manager part, I really wish I had held on a while longer, since the jerk boss wound up leaving shortly after I did, and now things are much bette...