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I was doing a fundal massage on a patient who had just delivered her baby. Her family was in the room, so I was doing my best to keep her covered while still being able to asses her bleeding-which meant I was leaning forward a bit to see under the li...

Hi everyone! I am currently finishing up my first travel assignment. A few of the other travelers I have been working with have told me that they use multiple agencies. Does anyone have experience with this? I'm just wondering how it works-what do yo...

Have you had your OB clinical yet? For me personally, I found the classroom and textbook part of OB hard to understand until I was actually doing it and seeing it in clinical. Now I am an OB nurse and absolutely love it, but it didnt necessarily star...

One of the OBs I worked with had silly tidbits from the patients' prenatal visits. One that I can remember said, "good fetal movement, no ctx, bleeding, or leaking of fluid ... pt has PINK HAIR !!!" I definitely laughed out loud reading that one.

I worked L&D for 3 years in Nola before I started traveling (not at ocshner). It's crazy busy, and you will care for a very diverse patient population. We absolutely loved our travelers and were so thankful to have them. I'm going to link to a re...

Hello! Can anyone tell me if/when your AWHONN fetal monitoring certification expires? My certificate doesn't say and I can't seem to find it on the awhonn website. Thanks!

Hey everyone! Hopefully someone can help me with this question. My school is required us to buy these mysterious bags for sim lab. I am a senior, and this is brand new. The bags are zip-tied and once opened, cannot be returned to the bookstore. No on...

My thoughts exactly! They have tons of bags that we have already learned and practiced doing this last year..I honestly do not see the point of purchasing this bag. We have our first lab next week, so I guess I'll find out

We were all shocked..this is our 6th semester and up until this point, all the IV supplies have been provided for us. The school is a separate health sciences center, consisting of the medical school, the dental school, the nursing school, allied hea...

Thanks for your replies! I thought it seemed odd too. The bookstore isn't directly selling the fluids, they just received the pre-packaged, zip-tied bags and actually had no idea what was in them! I am going to e-mail my course coordinator and compla...

Alright, so I am a nursing student in my pediatric rotation. Today was the second day of this clinical for us, so everything is still pretty new. My patient was 5wks old, only 7.6 pounds. Early in the shift, my instructor came with me to put a new se...

Yeeea, this one is tricky! I agree with the other poster about doing a self-care deficit for the sake of ease, but if your instructor is a stickler for priority dx that might not work. I'm drawing a blank on an outcome, but here's a few possible int...

I don't have too many tips, but I can tell you how my mental rotation went! It was an acute inpatient unit, and there was a pretty high turnover rate. First thing in the morning, would get report. Then on the floor we would get all the vitals, brin...

All I needed was clarification about that so thank you! That makes me feel a lot better about the whole situation.

PS-I know I could just go to the course coordinator initially, but these teachers are all friends and have worked together for years. So I don't want to bring this up if it's not as big of a deal as I suspect. That's why I'm coming here to ask for ad...

I get the point about not using tubing that had been out. I should have known better and there's no real excuse except for the fact that my instructor told me to do it this way (still not excusable and I won't do it again). I also understand that all...

I appreciate both of your responses, and I will definitely remember to not use an IV line that had been sitting out for a few hours. However, the line was full of air. My instructor immediately stopped the infusion (luckily before it had really start...

Congratulations on your acceptance! I don't know anything about WCU, but as a fellow nursing student, get ready for the ride of your life! It's hard, exhausting, and stressful, but also so rewarding and so worth it in the end!

I just finished my L&D/Newborn rotation, and here's a few of the dx we used for the newborns that were instructor-approved: -Risk for infection: newborns immune systems are not fully developed, and therefore are put at high risk for developing in...