ShannonC

I did the job shadow thing once but it was for a non-nursing job, back in my old life. I got the job in question and after the fact, asked about the purpose and they told me it is largely social. In other words, they hang out with you so that they ...

I am madly in love with this entire post! Very well said and I totally agree.

I think I have a soft spot for this Dad, because I remember being sort of in his and his wife's shoes. This is the scenario: you read the hard stats, you get all informed, but then you want to just hear from real life people... he seems like a smar...

From my experience, what I have seen in my particular hospital,my "X" here is 34 weeks and my "Y" is 33. To me that fits the bill--33 weekers almost always turn out fine, albeit with a short stay in the NICU. Most of our 34 weekers are in the NICU ...

Though you may have to wait for a missed period, it might help to logic this out some... when did you have sex? At what point in your cycle? Are you regular with your periods? Are they often the same length? Was there a birth control method? E...

Blood tests can be done before the home tests, but not a huge amount sooner. These days the home tests are so good, very reliable.

I think I was the one who introduced the word barbaric to the thread... I do really apologize to anyone I offended. I'm not trying to make some huge point or change anyone's mind. That's just the way I feel, the word "barbaric" comes to me when I c...

You know, this has got me thinking, and feeling sort of "second-guess"ish about when I state my opinion. I mean, okay, it's not like I am out there campaigning for new parents to leave their boys intact. BUT, if a patient or her husband says to me ...

I so totally agree with you! It's interesting what you have studied. It's too bad that this wonderful tradition of midwives got effectively extinguished... I hope it comes back full force! My hope is that everyone have a full range of choices and t...

I am learning so much on this board! I am curious, SmilingBluEyes, if the patient doesn't push it out during pushing, when do you routinely d/c the Foley? For us, we d/c the Foley on everyone at some point during the pushing phase, and everyone, ep...

Wow... interesting thread. For me (have been an L&D nurse in Southern California for 7 years), I see the doctor as part of the patients' team. I am an important part, and so is the OB. I have caught some babies, but I always prefer it when th...

Well, shoot. I totally messed up my reply just now. I tried to quote and reply to different sections, but ended up just making it all messed up. My responses are in italics, making it look like they were part of the original quote. Then I tried t...

Agreed, 100%, like I said above. But if my patients ASK ME, I'll tell them how I feel. It's why they asked. Also, play nice, please. :)

Yay!! Things sound really good for you guys. I myself had my twins at 34 weeks and 3 days... and they came home from the hospital with me. They weighed 4-5 and 4-8. No o2 needed, no IVs, no big problems. Just some difficulty getting them to suck...

I vividly remember freaking out about test scores during nursing school. But, and fellow RNs back me up on this, my grades never had anything at all to do with one MINUTE of my nursing career. It is far more important to have the knack for it. And...

I've never seen a botched circ, per se, but I've seen many "regular" ones done, and I always think the same thing--it seems barbaric to me. That's just me, though. When my patients tell me they want a circ, naturally, I don't give my opinion. They...

When I was a new nurse, one of the people training me said that it takes 100 VE's until you "get it", and she was totally right. It just simply takes time. Maybe not 100 exactly of course :) but the idea is right--the more you do it, the better you...

Hey fellow nurses! This is my first post here. I'm excited to be part of this community. I'm wanting feedback about a case I had tonight. My patient was a primip, came in with SROM, and her VE was 5cms. Another nurse had admitted her, and I recei...

I love this question! No doubt, the best thing, and the reason I got into this job, is that moment when the baby is first born. The parents are exhausted but exhilarated, and it is just amazing. I've always felt that it's an incredible honor to be ...

I get most frustrated with having poor managers--people who don't come from L&D, people who don't get it that you can't staff the unit based on what the board says at 5pm. People that don't understand how a busload of pregnant women can be dropp...

I think I share pretty much everyone's else view... I think being CF by choice is a perfectly understandable and certainly acceptable way to live life!! Not everyone wants kids! Why is that so hard to get? But back to the original question of ho...

I think when we support each other, we all benefit. I really learned something from this, and in the future, it's going to benefit my patients as well as myself... I'll always push Amp no matter how soon that baby is coming out! On a related note...

Something that strikes me as a contradiction (though it might make perfect sense to someone else, I don't know) is the uber-Bradley anti-intervention couple that go on to request a circ on their son. Huh???

We monitor all through prep time, and then for a few minutes IN the OR, too. Though, depending on the situation (ie which anesthesia doc is there, and whether it's just a routine/elective section) we forgo the OR monitoring.

Oh, that sounds like a very NOT fun delivery. I admit it--I get nervous when I hear I have a Bradley patient. Not because of anything wrong with Bradley necessarily, but I just never know when I am going to accidentally offend someone. You know? I...