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don't get me wrong, I'd love to have manicured nails... but as a graduate of a conservative nursing program 30 years ago, I guess I got used to restrictions during my education! Clear polish on natural nails, only. One pair of earrings, plain studs...

OK, Seriously: "ER has been a very exciting yet stressful environment for me since you never know what is going to come in the door." ---Uh, THAT is the FUN part of L&D! Every day is different! "what is a "typical" day like?" ---No such thing as ...

Personally speaking, I think being a bit crazy helps alot!

Sure! I work full time in a High Risk L&D (>400 deliveries a month) AND per deim at a level one hospital with

"all the 6 hospitals in my hometown (Mobile, AL) and there are NEVER any positions for OB nurses..." Leave town...find a hospital with an OB internship program, work postpartum for a year, then transfer into the internship program! You'll have enoug...

I must agree 100%! The key phrase is "if you can be sure no one has breached the sterile field." Our practice is the sterile corridor is not left unattended, ie after the room is opened, and the door is shut, the OR area (in our Labor & Delivery ...

Your facility isn't really doing this, are they? ARGH! Infection control & JCACHO would have a fieldday!

wet mop...lots of changes of mopheads and washwater!

Question: if YOU are the RN, why are YOU scrubbed in and no other RN circulating in the room??? IF only one RN available, why isn't the tech functioning in their role as a scrub nurse (legal!) and you be ciruculating? They cannot circulate. Period. ...

The sunsets and sunrises ARE beautiful over the mountains! Glad you noticed! Haze in LV x 22 years now.

"Do you think I would have a valid reason?" Oh, Heidi, Of course you have a valid reason! You body will go into labor, stress or not. But feel free to request an induction as soon as your cervix begins to ripen at all. In fact, if I were you, I...

just finished "Angels & Demons" by the author of "The DaVinci Code"....Great! haze

I've been busy working two jobs... but I'm going to be home for 8 weeks, post-gastric bypass, so you should "see" more of me here! Thanks for noticing! Haze

yes, Ma'am! ('course, I do agree with you!) Haze

of course, blues bro. are cool... but your Smiling Blue Eyes were "you"! haze

Currently: hospital provide scrubs... Reality: most of us take them home and wash them ourselves because the harsh soaps they are commercially laundered in cause rashes and itching. History: our tiniest, critical patients in NICU had their nursing st...

Nope... No makeup! I leave the house at 0630.... I get home at 2000... I'm a Labor & Delivery nurse... My patients could care less if I look my best... as long as I bring the pain meds/epidurals! Haze "better living through chemistry"...when appr...

OK, which would be worse? C. Diff or stool transplant? Yuck!

Thanks for the great advertiesment for Las Vegas Nursing... now, please post it on all the other "STATES" forums! :-) Haze

If you think of your epidural space as two layers of Saran wrap, and the epidural medicine expands that space with medicine, IF an area sticks together or folds over on themselves, then the result is a patchy block. The only way to fix it is to sta...

AB-SO-LUTE-LY!!! How about requiring the physician to fax documentation to validated the medical necessity? Like BPP results? AFI measurements? Labs? etc.? we do > 400 deliveries a month... we are a tertiary center... and we limit "bookings" to 6-...

1) stay active w/ your local/state AWHON groups 2) stay current with your ACLS, NALS, FETAL MONITORING CERTIFICATIONS 3) make yourself a squeaky wheel with the ob nurse manager! Send Christmas cards, valentines, watch staffing position lists. 4) IF ...

Oh, kiddo, If M.Murry scared you, then DON'T read national ACOG or AWHON standards! You'll have a small stroke!!!! you wrote: "We have a room that we put PTL and PIH pt?s on MgSO4 that doesn?t have central monitoring." *so, standard of care requires...

23 weeks: viable...but morbidity and mortality statistics are horrible! definately a bioethical dilema weighing quality of life vs cost vs kinder to allow death with dignity. (before you think I am heartless, please talk to parents of 23 week babies....