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I have an embarrassing problem, but I'm sure other nurses can relate. On some especially busy nights when I'm sweating and running around, my thighs chafe so badly they blister and I can't even sit comfortably. At first I thought it was my underwear ...

Ditto obrn23. I've never had specialty pay, and only float within maternal-child health.

Mine always come mixed from the pharmacy or manufacturer. If we run out is the only time I've had to mix my own.

I've had both cases. My clinic job I had to buy my own scrubs but whatever color/style I wanted. Then my first L&D job they were provided. My current job, I have to buy my own but in a specific color. (Which of course is not the same as the ones ...

No. Case by case like you said.

I have some patients that I've bonded with and remember fondly, crazy horror stories, and patients I go home thinking about because I'm worried about them. But none of it has kept me from functioning.

The necessity of it probably is facility dependent. At my former hospital, a big teaching institution, anybody who would be charting on a fetal strip had to have EFM. Since this was a requirement, we did not get a bonus for it. After EFM, you were co...

I don't love the OR but I'm rarely in there. When I was first learning to circulate I would get so nervous and intimidated too, but like with everything, it gets easier with practice and experience.

One thing that I don't like is that debriefing sessions are often separated into nursing meetings and medical meetings. Not only are we missing out in the chance to learn from each other, I think it leads to the blame game and fosters a "us vs. them"...

I imagine starting salary is going to vary greatly by geography. Keep in mind that I was working in New York City where all RNs pretty much make more than the national average. I have found that the tools at Welcome to Salary.com! - Salary.com have b...

I haven't seen anything in the way of an algorithm or checklist (we just administered what MD asked for) but we had a sealed kit that included 5 tabs of cytotec, and a couple bottles each of pit, hemobate and methergine. We kept it in the med fridge ...

When I first started in L&D I think I had about 12 weeks and remember feeling so overwhelmed. But once I was really on my own I knew more than I thought I did. It can be hard when someone else with different habits and priorities is hovering over...

I've heard doctors try to get me restart or up the pit and say "the baby needs to declare itself" meaning, if we can say the baby can't tolerate labor then we can just call a section.

When I worked at a large teaching hospital in New York City, almost 50% of patients brought private cord blood kits and almost everyone else participated in the public bank if it was open. Now that I've moved to a small hospital in the Midwest, I've ...

Had a boy just the other night named Diamond.

However.....bare in mind that this might be a foreshadowing of how that institution and floor is run. Not saying you shouldn't take the job, but just be prepared that you might hit administrative bumps along the way.

We treat our leftover pitocin like chemo, careful to use gloves and dispose of in black boxes. Maybe this got someone confused?

Haha I thought this was going to be a question about magnesium. But yes, like Klone said, a subscription to AWHONN will keep your mailbox full.

Recently I had a baby named Astryx who had big brother Spyder at home.

Definitely take a summer externship if you can. Not doing one was my biggest regret in nursing school.

I once came across this gem in the chart of a PCOS patient... "Pt has hair like a man"

It's always challenging coming into a new group of people and having to figure out the culture. I always try to be aware of who is in earshot when I am talking; having patients overhear something they shouldn't is definitely unprofessional. It drives...

Thanks! Mailing the rest of it off today. Need it by mid-Sept so I hope Im in good shape

Hey guys, I'm going to be moving to MN soon and have started the process of getting my license via verification since I've passed the NCLEX and have been practicing in another state. I'm hoping to get the last of my forms notarized and mailed tomorro...

We only get the good old fashioned basins with warm tap water and leftover laps from the c/s or delivery table.