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We have emergency meds for every labor pt in the room. Pit (IM and IV), miso, and lido (not emergent but for convenience I guess)

I work in a community hospital. We have 6 labor rooms, 1 triage, 1 OR, and 11 postpartum rooms. We recover our sections in the labor room they came from. We staff at 6 all shifts but can be put on call if it's slow, minimum of 3 nurses. We do about 800 births a year.

We are required to do one or two on call shifts per schedule (4 weeks). We are payed $4/hr when we are at home and if we get called in, we get time and a half pay.

I did my senior internship in OB at a childbirth center and ended up getting a job there as a new grad after I graduated. I do admit that I think a year or so in med surg would have been beneficial but I wouldn't trade my job for anything. I was never a big fan of medsurg in school and I don't plan on ever working medsurg now. There's definitely benefits of getting medsurg experience but if you want to do OB, you can be a great OB nurse without doing medsurg first. Goodluck!

I work at a community hospital and we always circulate our c-sections, one nurse as circulator and one for the baby. We are in the process of getting checked off to scrub in sections as well. Our techs are scrub techs but if a shift is not covered, the nurses are responsible for scrubbing in.

Hi, so right now I work in a Childbirth Center. It is not a birthing center but a unit within a community hospital that has L/D, postpartum and nursery on the same unit. We work with midwives and doctors. I love the unit but I know in about 5 years I will be leaving the area. I know it is years away but I was wondering how common a unit like mine is in other areas of the US. I love being able to do labor and PP and nursery. I feel like I'm going to have trouble having to pick just one unit to work on when I move. I also love working with the midwives as well as doctors. Just wondering if anyone works on a unit like mine? Thanks!

I graduated in May 2012 and work in L/D, pp, and nursery and I make $31.16/hr. I think that's base pay for all new grads at my hospital. I get an extra $1/hr for having my bachelors, wknd differential is $2/hr and night differential is $4.50/hr

I'm a new grad and I get $35/hr

I applied to over a hundred jobs there with no response from them. It's a tough hospital to get into. I had almost all my clinicals there and depending on the unit, I've heard a lot of people not liking it there too much as a patient and a nurse.

I just accepted a job offer today and I graduated with a bachelor's in May 2012. When I graduated I thought I was going to get a job right away, unfortunately that was not the case and that's how it's going for a lot of new nurses right now. There are still girls from my class that don't have jobs. Keep applying and something will come your way! Don't get too discouraged.

Does the pop up come up immediately when you try to reregister?

I'm taking the NCLEX in two days and getting pretty nervous. I've been studying but just wondering if you guys had any last minute pointers? Also, for people who have taken it, did you do the PVT trick immediately after you finished your exam or did you wait awhile?

I know someone who got the bad pop up and passed. the trick is useful but not 100%