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  1. Cytotec po or vaginally

    allevi posted a topic in Ob/Gyn

    Where I work we have always used cytotec lady partslly now we are doing more po cytotec for inductions. Just wondering what everyone's experience is with this? We are a small rural hospital that only...

  2. New to the Night Shift Experience

    allevi replied to joey1967's topic in General Nursing

    I have been working 12 hour nights for 3 1/2 years now. I wouldn't switch between days and nights too hard to do. If you only get one off between the day night thing, just go with sleep. It is...

  3. Cytotec po or vaginally

    allevi replied to allevi's topic in Ob/Gyn

    the few that we have done have delivered in about 5 hours It sounds like from our docs anyway that they are doing this more in the larger facilities. It still makes me nervous, but according to some...

  4. Cytotec po or vaginally

    allevi replied to allevi's topic in Ob/Gyn

    :)

  5. What exactly are AWHONN's guidelines for staffing?

    allevi replied to webbiedebbie's topic in Ob/Gyn

    Wow I guess I should consider myself lucky. I work med surg and ob in a small rural hospital. we usually get another nurse back in ob when there is over 2+2, 2 moms and 2 babes. Our laboring moms...

  6. 12 hour shifts too long?

    allevi replied to Aaron Catmull's topic in General Nursing

    I currently work 3 nights, off one, then work 3 more. So 6 out of 7 nights. Then I get a week off, works out nice, work a week then a week off. Overall I like the 12's, I do work prn at a local...

  7. how many holidays per year and holiday pay

    allevi posted a topic in General Nursing

    I am just curious about holiday pay at other facilities. The hospital I work at considers there to be 6 holidays per year. Christmas day, New Years day, Memorial Day, July 4, Labor Day, Thanksgiving....

  8. how many holidays per year and holiday pay

    allevi replied to allevi's topic in General Nursing

    thanks for the replys. it is interesting to see what other facilities offer. Happy New Year to

  9. Tracheal Suction Technique

    allevi replied to diane1970's topic in Patient Safety Issues

    Well this is my response, as a mother of a child who has a trach. My daughter needed granualtion tissue removed several times from below her trach due to people ramming the catheter in, far below the...

  10. weekend differential

    allevi posted a topic in General Nursing

    I am just curious as to how many of you get paid a weekend differential, more pay for working weekends. Not a weekend package, just your scheduled weekend. I was curious to the amount of the...

  11. weekend differential

    allevi replied to allevi's topic in General Nursing

    thanks everyone for all of your replies. I would really like to see something like this where I work. Probably don't have a chance though. Thanks

  12. scary looking nursing home

    allevi posted a topic in Geriatric, LTC

    i recently applied for a job in nursing home, that had a beautiful offices for management, beautiful alzheimers wing, but the main nursing home was old and scary looking. I was told that it had been...

  13. mds mountain of work with no help

    allevi replied to yasmina's topic in Geriatric, LTC

    I love reading everyones responses. I still am seriously considering doing this job, my current job is doing 12 hours on night shift and I think I am getting too old for 12 hours and nights. the...

  14. mds mountain of work with no help

    allevi replied to yasmina's topic in Geriatric, LTC

    wow, i just applied for a position as assistant don and mds nurse. Currently work in a rural hospital, which I like, except that we have to go to all areas and I don't care for that part. I am now...

  15. Why were they sent to boil water?

    allevi replied to RNinCanada's topic in Ob/Gyn

    In a book I read The Midwife, she would use the warm water to massage the perineum, to stretch it out to avoid any tearing of the perineum. I have seen physicians use sterile water to massage the...

  16. Cervical checks...need help learning

    allevi replied to is this heaven's topic in Ob/Gyn

    I don't have a cervix anymore, due to hysterectomy, but even if I did I don't know that I could reach? We had a patient call in once and said she checked her own cervix, but she wasn't a

  17. internet at work

    allevi posted a topic in General Nursing

    How many nurses out there have internet access at work? If you do, do you have much of an opportunity to use it and for what purposes. Just

  18. Which states have the "worst" nursing jobs?

    allevi replied to Blackcat99's topic in General Nursing

    Iowa has to be the worst as far as pay, we rank 51 or 52 on the pay scale for nurses, out of 50 states. Iowa stinks for pay, but I guess in the same sense, our cost of living is much lower than many...

  19. For all of you night nurses

    allevi replied to BaystateRN's topic in General Nursing

    This is exactly what happens to me. The not being able to figure out what to say good morning or good night is always weird to me. Especially when you continue to tell your patients good night at 4...

  20. Day in the Life

    allevi replied to mary761's topic in Geriatric, LTC

    I currently am working in both a hospital, and a long term care facility. i am doing prn in ltc, and I think I may be insane. I too like the residents and enjoy getting to know them, but at the...

  21. tracheostomy tricks of trade

    allevi replied to ohbet's topic in General Nursing

    I am speaking as both a nurse and a mom of trached child. I have learned many tricks in the last eight years of living with my daughter. I have only dealt with one trached patient, and that was not...

  22. FULL NAME required on name tag???

    allevi replied to NRSKarenRN's topic in Activism, Healthcare

    We don't have to have a last name on our name tags. ER nurses especially don't want it , about the stalking thing, but they sign the discharge papers and the last name is on it

  23. How small is your small rural hospital?

    allevi replied to Ted's topic in General Nursing

    The hospital i work in i believe can only have 25 patients. It is called a critical acess hospital. That includes OB i believe. The most patients i have had since there has been

  24. "Big city" hospitals vs smaller community-based facilities?

    allevi replied to pebbles's topic in General Nursing

    I work in a small rural hospital and i think that the advantage is that eventually you learn all areas med surge, ob, er, and there is also the home health, surgery, and other areas. You get to use...

  25. Ques. about presetting up of meds

    allevi replied to mondk's topic in Geriatric, LTC

    We use that system also. I never preset meds, but there have been times that i got the med out and the resident wasn't around, and then i just put it in their drawer. I know this is technically...