ReneeRN0521

I had 1 OB who was supportive of midwifery in general and me becoming a midwife, 1 charge nurse, my unit supervisor, and 1 instructor from my previous degree.

All in OB or NICU Na: 99-alert and oriented x3 sitting up in bed brushing her hair after a shower. AST/ALT both over 5000 on 2 separate patients both lived Platelets: 19 -lived FSBS: 2 on a newborn-lived, FSBS: 1250 on 27wk preterm baby due to misca...

I'm in the University of Cincinnati program and the requirement is a 3.0 in your last nursing degree and no GRE required :). I have another MSN in Nursing Education so that was the GPA they took, not my BSN (thank goodness because working nights and...

I work at a hospital that does have 24/7 laborist coverage, but this is fairly new (within the last 2 years). We did about 4300 deliveries last year which was the most in the state. The laborist is not a substitute for the patient's OB. We still co...

I had to find a completely online program that was approved by my states Department of Higher Education leaving me only Georgetown and University of Cincinnati my choice initially came down to price, but now I am happy with my choice. I was super wo...

So I have found 2 CNM's that have agreed to probably be my preceptors but they can't commit 100% this far in advance (I have a ton of WHNP options for the first semester of clinical I just needed to find CNM preceptors for the other 3 semesters of cl...

I was accepted about 2 weeks after I had all of my stuff turned in but it was in early September way before the deadline. I was told that the earlier you apply the faster you hear back, and since the number of applications increase the closer to the...

None of us want do mandatory call but it works on a rotating schedule. There are 6 groups with approx. the same amount of nurses in each group one month group A picks first then B and so on and so forth. The next month group B would pick first and ...

I work on a closed unit (if we get pulled it is only to PP, Nsy, or NICU). It is fabulous knowing that I will never have to take care of a 90 year old man that has had a stroke. That being said our L&D is fairly busy for the area (about 300 del...

All of our nurses are trained to scrub when on orientation. We all know how to do it but I like the previous poster am not a fan of scrubbing. I do it when necessary but I would rather labor 2 mag/pit patients without epidurals than scrub. :)

I start in January 2015 too!!! I am super excited and ready to register for classes, get my books, and get started. Do you have preceptors picked out yet?? That has so far been the most stressful part. I can't get anyone to contact me back and th...

I am 24 and have just applied to Nurse Midwifery school to hopefully start in January 2015 (I'll be 25). I graduated high school at 18 then went straight into an ADN program got my RN at 20 finished my BSN at 22 finished my MSN-Nursing Education at ...

My best advice is to add the shift and admission required docs columns into your patient list screen and when they turn green you've done everything required for the day. Also when admitting a patient go down the admission navigator from top to bott...

Hello, I am currently going through fertility treatments to try and conceive and have been a L&D nurse for 2 years. I won't lie some days it is really, really hard to be sympathetic and caring. Especially when people come in whining and compla...

It depends on where you live. There are areas where there are jobs like Texas, but there are other areas like where I live in Arkansas where they are shutting down WHNP programs because there are no jobs. Most people around here are saying that it ...

Geographic location....AR Pay rate...$21.42$ In which area / specialty do you work?Labor and Delivery What type of license do you have (RN or LPN)?RN What type of degree and/or certification do you have?BSN in school for MSN (graduate in February or ...

Learn to do Leopold's maneuver and then place the doppler on the fetal back. This was one of the first things my preceptor taught me and it has been so helpful and made my life so much easier. I've even had patients comment "you found that so fast ...

The thing about OB patients is our bodies expect to lose blood during delivery. I had a doctor tell her patient once who had a mild-moderate hemorrhage "Our bodies are still designed to give birth in the woods with no assistance and they make extra ...

1. What brought you to the path of nursing? My aunt was a nurse and I loved all things medical growing up. I went to school so that I could be a labor and delivery nurse. 2. How long did it take you to finish your degree? 2 Years for my ASN (I did p...

Premature patients especially those >30 weeks tend to be well below the umbilicus like U/3 or so.

Are they talking about acuity based on a scale of A-F with A being the least Acute and F being the most Acute. An acuity of A would be a patient that is almost completely independent needing very little nursing care and F being a patient that is pr...

I was on orientation for 12 weeks. 2 of those I was orienting to scrubbing/assisting on c/sections, 1 week I was on our antepartum unit. The rest was 4 weeks of inductions/labor, 2 weeks of c/sections, 2 weeks of high-risk/combinations(whatever we ...

I got hired with no L&D experience by a supervisor that saw the benefit of having nurses with a variety of backgrounds. The position only required 1 year of nursing experience. The hard part is finding that special supervisor that is willing to...

I love IV Toradol for cramping after delivery and Percocet for perineal pain and breakthrough form the Toradol

We circulate all c-sections and are all trained to scrub. We don't have to scrub all that often because we have scrub techs for just our floor, but if we have to run 2 rooms, we only have one tech, or at night then a nurse will scrub in too. When c...