tasharn

I hate to sound horrible but welcome to the real world. I have been in l&d two years and I work alone on the night shift, without centeral monitoring and no in house dr. or surgery crew. Hope someone don't come in abrupted,

Lab does not draw our babies, The lpn or the rn draw the pku

Well it is policy that if a patient is a drop in (meaning a hospital that didn't do the primary care) then we screen them both. Lots of mom's who are positive do hospital hopping in hopes of not getting caught and the baby taken away by dhs. I am sorry this happen to your cousin, I would demand a repeat, because labs make mistakes

It gets me everytime when the dad cries.

Okay I am the liar too, I have no children unless you'r my patient who is in so much pain then I have two. I think it is so important to bond with your patients, I have even had a patient scream at me "You don't know what this is like, so shut up" Okay for me I tried two years on aggressive fertility drugs to become pregnant so this was just a blow I couldn't bare. I left ob for a short while. Well now I am back in l&d and I have two fictional children.

Always believe a patient when they say this baby is coming and I am dying, because they know. Remember the patient in pain is not the way they really behave and mostly would feel sorry for yelling at you.

I have never met a doctor that will preform a water birth. The risk for aspiration pneumonia is too high ( so i have been told) this is interesting to me.

I work in l&d and have never done a delivery without stirrups, a broke down bed, and with out vaccum (with one doctor) every delivery is an emergancy situation and he gears up and gears my patients up.