HappyNurse2005

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  1. Complete and total disregard for Visiting Hours! (vent)

    HappyNurse2005 replied to Pepper The Cat's topic in General Nursing

    being in labor and delivery,the visiting policy is a little more lax. hard to say "sorry, you gotta leave at 8pm" when people are admitted all hours of the day, babies are born at all hours, etc....

  2. I have 3 kids....have a ???

    HappyNurse2005 replied to KMP77's topic in Ob/Gyn

    well,its half and half where i work. (teaching hospital) we have residents and we have private physicians. if it is the patient of a private physician, the nurses can and do check. unless the doc...

  3. How accurate is fundal height reading with tape measure?

    HappyNurse2005 replied to JeanettePNP's topic in Ob/Gyn

    well, one arbitrary measurement can't possibly be expected to be exactly the same on every woman. think about how different bellies are on women. some have huge bellies that stick way out, some have...

  4. Verbal orders vs Telephone orders

    HappyNurse2005 replied to DEB52's topic in General Nursing

    we just have "verbal order" and have to signify read back. i think this is a jcaho thing, yes? something like admit to labor and delivery. routine labor orders VO Dr. XXXX/RB Happy Nurse, RN (with...

  5. woman dies in ER waiting room (article)

    HappyNurse2005 posted a topic in General Nursing

    http://www.latimes.com/news/local/la-me-king20may20,0,6057993.story?page=1&coll=la-home-center the first few paragraphs, click link for rest of story (too long to cut/paste) interesting. says...

  6. Duties of OB nurses (and others) Please feel free to add!

    HappyNurse2005 replied to SmilingBluEyes's topic in Ob/Gyn

    how can you have antepartum patients but you can't read a strip? who does their fetal monitoring and interprets it? i am an antepartum/l&d nurse (no postpartum) and we have gotten women with...

  7. Do hospitals normally give annual raises?

    HappyNurse2005 replied to qt314nf's topic in General Nursing

    we get raises tied to our evals. its very objective. if you get xxx score on your eval, you get exactly this much raise, etc. so the better score is the better raise. around the 3 percent range if you...

  8. woman dies in ER waiting room (article)

    HappyNurse2005 replied to HappyNurse2005's topic in General Nursing

    link to the ER thread, please. i went there and didn't see

  9. woman dies in ER waiting room (article)

    HappyNurse2005 replied to HappyNurse2005's topic in General Nursing

    hypocritical much? you're being just as judgemental as you claim they

  10. Do all hospitals share commonnursealities

    HappyNurse2005 replied to PattonD's topic in Ob/Gyn

    well, myth or not, this past thursday evening, it had rained some here and stormed some,and we were a packed house all night. all 8 LDR rooms full, 3 bed triage full, laboring moms waiting in triage...

  11. cord blood kits

    HappyNurse2005 replied to nurse79's topic in Ob/Gyn

    This really isn't too common here. Large hospital (for our area, lol-300 births/month), and its really not that common. sure, occasionally. but if a patient of mine brought one in, i'd have to read...

  12. my Biggest fear.....

    HappyNurse2005 replied to AfghaniPrinzess's topic in Ob/Gyn

    we always have a nursery nurse present at deliveries (we have a "birth team" that is called in for delivery, and if it is a high risk person -mec, known birth defect, less than 37w, etc they bring a...

  13. Question about your rooms..

    HappyNurse2005 replied to BittyBabyGrower's topic in Ob/Gyn

    right now, no, but the infant area (bed/scale/supplies) is an alcove off the main room, so enough people around the bed (nnp, rn, etc) could block the baby from parents

  14. Better to just call-in?

    HappyNurse2005 replied to appleheadRN's topic in General Nursing

    if you call in sick now, they'll know you're faking it. b/c how coincidental that you'd request a day off, don't get it, then get sick that day? (though i've known people who've done it, called in...

  15. How long to wait for Madame Placenta??

    HappyNurse2005 replied to Elvish's topic in Ob/Gyn

    30mins usually, though they do encourage it to come out with Pit, massage and a gentle tug. no forceful pulling. and any manual removal on a no anesthesia pt goes to the or to be

  16. Pushing/delivery positions and epidurals

    HappyNurse2005 replied to CEG's topic in Ob/Gyn

    leaning on bedside tables might not be a great idea, b/c they have wheels! depending on how strong her legs are, she could be up on her knees, leaning over a squat bar, laying on her side with her...

  17. Somedays I just wish EFM would go away....

    HappyNurse2005 replied to kathiecnm's topic in Ob/Gyn

    1. Did an MD see the patient in triage? the statement "the RN determined the pt to be in ptl" isn't clear. if we had this pt come in, the RN would have her on the monitor, would certainly not do a sve...

  18. Please help me with my new Customer-er...I mean Pt

    HappyNurse2005 replied to KellNY's topic in Ob/Gyn

    We have several moms over 40 where i work recently, and in general. 43yo pprom, 40yo pprom, 41yo with twins, 40yo primip pprom prolapsed cord, 45yo primip, 46yo, etc. some started "late", some had...

  19. ICU RN thinking of switching

    HappyNurse2005 replied to VegasNurse05's topic in Ob/Gyn

    well, ob is great. ( i do l&d not pp) though, trust me, you will not be spared from needy/crazy/ pain in the orifice patients. they get pregnant, too. yes, most of them are great,

  20. question re: nurses doing vaginal/cervical exams

    HappyNurse2005 replied to ljb's topic in Ob/Gyn

    i am also at a decent sized teaching hospital (with private ob docs as well). nurses do not do the iupc/fse's. we do vag exams, though, the residents prefer to do them on their own patients (cuz they...

  21. One month Notice?????

    HappyNurse2005 replied to mim-o's topic in General Nursing

    my hospital has this requirement, and its well published and told to you in orientation. no secret. peole who make over 11 bucks an hour give 30 days notice, undre 11 bucks (or some monetary number...

  22. Time allowed for medication administration changing.

    HappyNurse2005 replied to veegeern's topic in General Nursing

    used to be 1 hr either way at old job. new job in same hospital system is 30

  23. No more VBACs

    HappyNurse2005 replied to 33-weeker's topic in Ob/Gyn

    we do vbac's. heck, we've had a vbac labor and delivery lady partslly 10 months after her c/sec, which some might consider too soon of a

  24. Easter considered holiday at your facility?

    HappyNurse2005 replied to Purdue_Nurse's topic in General Nursing

    nope. we get paid for new years day/memorial day/july 4/labor day/t-giving and cmas only. sucks. its a pretty major holiday, ya know? and i must agree, that although a religious holiday, it has...

  25. The Top 100 Hospitals- Really??????

    HappyNurse2005 replied to Fiesta Red's topic in General Nursing

    how are ya'll seeing this list? the way it looks to me, you have to pay $1200 to see