HappyNurse2005

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  1. POLL: How many births/yr and do you have in-house anesthesia / OB providers?

    HappyNurse2005 replied to mitchsmom's topic in Ob/Gyn

    2700-3600 births a year (varies-some months have 250 deliveries, october had 314) yes, 24/7 inhouse anesthesiologist doing just ob anesthesia yes, 24/7 in house OB

  2. I made my patient cry (long)

    HappyNurse2005 replied to ragingmomster's topic in Ob/Gyn

    PTL is pre term labor ctx is contractions toco is the monitor placed on the abdomen that picks up contractions. when mom is having a contraction, as her abdomen tightens, it picks up and the monitor...

  3. Leaving things for Day Shift

    HappyNurse2005 replied to Brooke13-RN's topic in First Year After Licensure

    now personally, if i had someone i couldn't stick "a few hours ago" and i couldn't get it after 2 tries, i'd be asking some of the better sticks on night shift. i wouldn't leave something that is a...

  4. When do you sign RN?

    HappyNurse2005 replied to NCVegRN's topic in General Nursing

    oh yeah, if i am going home after a long day and stop at the store, i'll accidentally sigh J.doe,

  5. Prenatals???

    HappyNurse2005 replied to Jocie's topic in Ob/Gyn

    Most insurances say you don't need a referral for obgyn type appointments iwth an obgyn. just call

  6. ready to quit school, almost

    HappyNurse2005 replied to catnip's topic in General Nursing

    So your 4 test grades will be all that counts to whether or not you pass? i cant believe you have only 4 tests!!! it sucks that things change on you, but, the way they want to do things isn't...

  7. 16,000 deliveries a year? Really?

    HappyNurse2005 posted a topic in Ob/Gyn

    So i was watching an older episode of Babies: special delivery the other day. IT was focusing on some hospital in Texas. I don't know what city. It said they did 16,000 deliveries a year! 16,000 / 52...

  8. Who votes?

    HappyNurse2005 replied to sanctuary's topic in General Nursing

    I voted! I live in a state where we had a highly contested senate election, and seeing as the dems were in a position to gain control of the senate, this could be considered an important election...

  9. How many Nurse jobs have you had?

    HappyNurse2005 replied to johnson0424's topic in General Nursing

    i graduated nursing school in May 2005. worked job #1 for 15 months current job #2 for 2 months and NO plans on

  10. I made my patient cry (long)

    HappyNurse2005 replied to ragingmomster's topic in Ob/Gyn

    We have abuse questions as part of our admission paperwork. if they are alone we ask them, otherwise, we hand them a piece of paper with the questions about being hit, kicked, slapped, etc doyou feel...

  11. I didn't know this actually happened

    HappyNurse2005 posted a topic in Ob/Gyn

    Had a patient who called 911 for her water breaking at full term. I mentioned it to another nurse who was like "and why are you surprised by that?" i didn't know people actually did that. Not an...

  12. I don't get the MA deal...

    HappyNurse2005 replied to allthingsbright's topic in General Nursing

    This has been gone over a zillion times on this site. We all know ma's aren't nurses, aren't anywhere near being a nurse, and even if they think they are "just like a nurse" they

  13. Nursing without license

    HappyNurse2005 replied to TouchstoneRN's topic in General Nursing

    Yes, but you also must think-maybe they legally have a different name, or go by their middle name at work. for ex, we have a nurse (not her real name here, of course) named Jennifer Layla Jones. She...

  14. New To Night Shift

    HappyNurse2005 replied to XYicuRN2B's topic in General Nursing

    If you have young children, that whole staying up on your days off thing wont work really well. I do switch back and forth. when i come home and am planning on working the next night, i sleep...

  15. Balancing 2 active pts!!

    HappyNurse2005 replied to nurse79's topic in Ob/Gyn

    We do one to one as much as possible, i can't imagine having 2 active patients. what if one is a multip and gets complete while you're helping the other with her epidural? what if they both start...

  16. Telemetry monitoring

    HappyNurse2005 replied to Bwick's topic in Cardiac

    I used to work on a cardiac surgery pcu-we had monitor techs who were non-nurses. they were cross trained secretaries. they had never gone thru nursing school, but they took they same 24 hours of...

  17. PP mag patients-go to PP floor, or stay on L&D?

    HappyNurse2005 posted a topic in Ob/Gyn

    for your pih pt's on mag in labor-as you know, they get to stay on it for 12 or 24 hours after delivery. do they stay on your unit (supposing you are not already a ldrp) or go to PP unit? my unit is...

  18. When a pt begs you not to go

    HappyNurse2005 replied to eden's topic in Ob/Gyn

    oh, and as a PS-one nurse had a friend of hers as a patient in labor. She worked til 7p taking care of her, then volunteered to stay til 11pm(they needed her) at 11pm, she was pushing, so the nurse...

  19. When a pt begs you not to go

    HappyNurse2005 replied to eden's topic in Ob/Gyn

    If i have to leave when a patient i've connected with hasn't delivered (which happened to one patient who I labored for all 12 hours, all night long, pushed with for 2.5 hours before at 630 am, MD...

  20. Triage

    HappyNurse2005 replied to mitchsmom's topic in Ob/Gyn

    We have a 3 bed triage that has one nurse assigned to do just triage. I believe the thinking is that you have to be off orientation one year before doing

  21. Prior degree and career fair=$$?

    HappyNurse2005 replied to dawn1971's topic in General Nursing

    See, i suppose it depends on the hospital and how hard you push it. A nurse i graduated with had her MSW and worked for 14 years as a social worker in the city health department with HIV/AIDS and STD...

  22. self scheduling question

    HappyNurse2005 replied to firetopaz's topic in Patient Safety Issues

    We do not do self scheduling where I am, from what I hear, it's because there are too many nurses-75, i think? (labor and delivery) though we can make requests Where I used to work had self scheduling...

  23. Name that part. Words patients use for their own anatomy.

    HappyNurse2005 replied to JEHORAPHA's topic in General Nursing

    had a patient once, when i did pcu, who in and out cath'd himself at home. his wife told me he called it "draining the dragon" i've heard hoo-ha and cootchie a lot in l &

  24. What have other nurses done that have freaked you out?

    HappyNurse2005 replied to texas_lvn's topic in General Nursing

    saw something similar once. except nurse inserted foley into male. got no urine whatsoever into bag, but inflated balloon anyways. (probably didn't advace far enough). foley was later removed and...

  25. Eleven pound baby!

    HappyNurse2005 replied to P_RN's topic in General Nursing

    How old is said child? I can't imagine anytime recently people being allowed to push for 48 hours???? and no fetal distress ensued?