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  1. Eat Before You Get Here!

    rn500 replied to NurseJacqui's topic in Emergency

    Holy Moly Carolladybelle, where have you worked, Attica? You HAVE been through the ringer! As for the thread, I work in OB and we get the same stuff. Again, it's not a truly needy/hungry/not NPO pt...

  2. What does it take to be a good L & D nurse?

    rn500 replied to QTRN74's topic in Ob/Gyn

    My advice to you is to APPLY ANYWAY! The advertisements may SAY one year experience, but in my OB unit we are constantly training new grads because there just aren't always experienced nurses...

  3. What does it take to be a good L & D nurse?

    rn500 replied to QTRN74's topic in Ob/Gyn

    I have worked L&D in both small community hospitals and a large teaching hospital, and here's my perspective: I think a teaching hospital is great for a new L&D nurse because of the reasons...

  4. Career switch - from 6 figure salary

    rn500 replied to melly06's topic in General Nursing

    If you have to work full time, which I do, I feel that nursing has provided me with more flexibility than many other professions would. I have worked 12hr night shifts for many years. Yes, the every...

  5. Level I Nursery

    rn500 replied to niquern's topic in Ob/Gyn

    The 1st problem with that is that you cannot control who will walk in off the street in labor. The 2nd problem that I've run into is that some docs don't want to label a pt "high risk" if that...

  6. Alternative nursing careers?

    rn500 posted a topic in General Nursing

    Okay, here's the thing... if I could walk out of hospital nursing today into a job where I can make comparable money, I would do it. Nothing dramatic has happened, I'm just tired of it after 17 years....

  7. Youngest labor patient?

    rn500 replied to RNLaborNurse4U's topic in Ob/Gyn

    My youngest patient was 12, and it just makes me ill to think about it. I have a 12 year old daughter, thank God she still thinks sex is gross! I know that won't last much longer

  8. Full Time Night Shift

    rn500 replied to RNKitty's topic in General Nursing

    I personally cannot get up after sleeping an hour or 2 and be any use to anyone! Not to say that I haven't done it for a sick kid or whatever, but I feel like crap all day. I usually sleep until 1 or...

  9. Full Time Night Shift

    rn500 replied to RNKitty's topic in General Nursing

    When I started nights (16 years ago) I knew it would be for quite a while, and I made a decision right from the get go that it was going to be important to take care of myself if I was going to have...

  10. Full Time Night Shift

    rn500 replied to RNKitty's topic in General Nursing

    RNKitty, can I give you some advice? There are 2 things (IMO) that are essential for sleeping in the daytime: 1) A white noise machine or a loud fan 2) a cell phone or beeper, which you are to...

  11. dress code before wearing scrubs

    rn500 replied to dee_OB's topic in Ob/Gyn

    You have got to be kidding me!! That does not seem legal somehow. Yet another way a hospital is doing everything it can to keep it's nurses happy and boost retention, eh?! I would be looking for...

  12. What is your biggest nursing pet peeve?

    rn500 replied to ferfer's topic in General Nursing

    :angryfire Oh sister, do I know this one!! Drives me nuts. Especially when, 10 minutes later, 5 family members arrive BY

  13. What is your biggest nursing pet peeve?

    rn500 replied to ferfer's topic in General Nursing

    Oh - one more... I work in OB, and I just love it when a pt asks for pain med, and when I am about to give it they ask "WILL THIS HURT THE BABY?" ??????????????????? Yes, it's going to kill...

  14. What is your biggest nursing pet peeve?

    rn500 replied to ferfer's topic in General Nursing

    I work midnights - my biggest pet peeve is that many of the day nurses don't seem to realize that at 7am we want to GO HOME - immediately if not sooner!! Before they get report they think it is okay...

  15. A parent with baby at all times?

    rn500 posted a topic in Ob/Gyn

    Some recent threads have addressed the issue of infants leaving the mom's room for care. I know we have all had pts who insisted that a parent accompany baby out of the room for any reason. This is...

  16. Pain scale

    rn500 replied to webbiedebbie's topic in Pain Management

    (b)"I don't think you understand the pain scale," replied the doctor. "If I took two bricks and smashed your balls between them, THAT pain would be a 10. Now, how much does it hurt?" "Uhhhh.... about...

  17. Gyn, tampon ?

    rn500 replied to nolenurse's topic in Ob/Gyn

    Nolenurse, if your gyn exam checks out ok and there is no reason that you can't use tampins, definitely check out the o.b. tampons w/o applicators. They are the only ones I've ever used comfortably....

  18. Best compliment ever!!

    rn500 replied to L&D.RN's topic in Ob/Gyn

    I once had a couple who came in to OB and brought me flowers on their daughter's first birthday. It was the sweetest thing and I'll never forget

  19. Best compliment ever!!

    rn500 replied to L&D.RN's topic in Ob/Gyn

    I once had a couple who came in to OB and brought me flowers on their daughter's first birthday. It was the sweetest thing and I'll never forget

  20. Forced to float?

    rn500 posted a topic in Ob/Gyn

    I am curious - how many of you are forced to float off of L&D/PP/NSY to another floor when you have low census? So far, in 13 yrs I have only been forced to go to Peds a handful of times, but...

  21. Funny Names for Nurses

    rn500 replied to randomnamees's topic in Nursing Humor

    Not medical, but... My husband once had a teacher named Harry

  22. Mother Baby Couplet Care

    rn500 replied to NSY4ME's topic in Ob/Gyn

    I gotta agree with bagladyrn - I've done couplet care for quite a few years now, and the idea of no "night nursery" sounds great on paper, but it sucks in real life. Once upon a time, when we had REAL...

  23. Forced to float?

    rn500 replied to rn500's topic in Ob/Gyn

    Come on Jami, you know it's a little more involved than that. If providing good patient care is at the top of our list, than you know it's just not safe. I have met a few nurses along the way who just...

  24. Help! question about complications at a birth

    rn500 replied to cathalenem's topic in Ob/Gyn

    feisty, I have been an L&D nurse for 13 years now, and I'm trying to figure out what you mean by "resuscitating the baby in utero" with saline flushes. Are you talking about amnioinfusion? Or is...

  25. What freaks you out?

    rn500 replied to psychnurse99's topic in General Nursing

    I have a pretty strong stomach, but I can't handle body parts that are not where they are supposed to be! I worked ER for a while, and when someone came in with a severed (or even partially)...