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  1. Sponge Count for Vag Deliveries

    Nurse4Moms posted a topic in Ob/Gyn

    I'm interested to know how many nurses are doing sponge counts for lady partsl deliveries... and... 1) what your SOP for this is based on 2) do you use radiographic sponges exclusively now so that if...

  2. Sponge Count for Vag Deliveries

    Nurse4Moms replied to Nurse4Moms's topic in Ob/Gyn

    Thank you everyone for posting your replies on the sponge count in vag. deliveries thing. I've been an OB nurse since 1985 & have never done this; have not (thankfully) seen any patients with...

  3. Question for Maternal/Child Nurses

    Nurse4Moms posted a topic in Pediatric

    Greetings, everyone. I am an AWHONN Certified Inpatient OB nurse working in a small hospital in the south. At the time I was hired, I was told that our service does involve care of pediatric...

  4. Question for Maternal/Child Nurses

    Nurse4Moms replied to Nurse4Moms's topic in Pediatric

    it would be a hoot to tell the powers that be that ob docs have to see/tend to peds patients! i was hired here as an l&d nurse specialist; nothin' to do with peds. we do not even have a pediatric...

  5. Question for Maternal/Child Nurses

    Nurse4Moms posted a topic in Ob/Gyn

    Hello, everyone! I'm an RN in a small hospital in the south which has a maternal/child service. I was hired for my long experience in OB nursing. I knew that there were pediatric patients cared for...

  6. What is your biggest nursing pet peeve?

    Nurse4Moms replied to ferfer's topic in General Nursing

    Thanks for sharing your story! I'm not a mom (at least not of human kids), but I do think I would have a clue on how to be the parent. My ex-sister in law had a hideous little 2 yr old when she lived...

  7. What is your biggest nursing pet peeve?

    Nurse4Moms replied to ferfer's topic in General Nursing

    Let's see: all the docs I work with wear scrub hats with different patterns, some are cartoons. The midwife I work with has lab coats with different little characters embroidered over her name. The...

  8. What is your biggest nursing pet peeve?

    Nurse4Moms replied to ferfer's topic in General Nursing

    yes, please!!! thank you for saying that. at my last job (oops, here we go!) someone always had to say "you don't want to be here today" or "boy are y'all in for it today." i finally actually...

  9. What is your biggest nursing pet peeve?

    Nurse4Moms replied to ferfer's topic in General Nursing

    So, someone being THAT demanding about getting pain meds can't wait 5 minutes to get them? I just can't see it! Another 2cents on

  10. What is your biggest nursing pet peeve?

    Nurse4Moms replied to ferfer's topic in General Nursing

    Oh, I do hear you on this one! Our unit recently had a FF flyer OB patient - very large woman who was gestational diabetic (obviously not "diet controlled"!), with a clomid pregnancy.. she started...

  11. What is your biggest nursing pet peeve?

    Nurse4Moms replied to ferfer's topic in General Nursing

    Well, I've already made my reply to that "orientate" thing... I had a nursing instructor for med/surg who insisted on saying "Lar-NIX" and "phar-NIX." Oh, I just cringed every time! And coworkers in...

  12. What is your biggest nursing pet peeve?

    Nurse4Moms replied to ferfer's topic in General Nursing

    and...... just about hating to work on certain days when you know that the heavy smokers will be on - then you know you'll be doing twice your regular work! some of my friends & i started taking...

  13. What is your biggest nursing pet peeve?

    Nurse4Moms replied to ferfer's topic in General Nursing

    I am very very weary of hearing the "racist" or "racial thing" comments by coworkers. I am sick to death of having people fear hearing it because they know they'll be the ones called to the floor for...

  14. What is your biggest nursing pet peeve?

    Nurse4Moms replied to ferfer's topic in General Nursing

    Oh, you got those things soooooooo right, labor sister! heehee I'm an L&D nurse, too... don't ya just get so bugged when they come in to see you all bright & smiley because they lost their...

  15. What is your biggest nursing pet peeve?

    Nurse4Moms replied to ferfer's topic in General Nursing

    Main Entry: ori-ent-ed Pronunciation: 'Or-E-"en-t&d, 'or- Function: adjective Date: 1944 : intellectually, emotionally, or functionally directed This is the word that means to be oriented in...

  16. What is your biggest nursing pet peeve?

    Nurse4Moms replied to ferfer's topic in General Nursing

    I guess I am an "old bitty nurse (should be spelled biddy, actually)... no kids, ... certainly not a Christian." What the heck has anyone's religion got to do with it? I, for one, can't STAND nurses...

  17. Nurses struggling with mental illness

    Nurse4Moms replied to Severina's topic in Nurse Disabilities

    wow, i really hear you, celtic! i'm 46 and have been diagnosed (at different times) as having depression, dysthymia, bipolar disease, and personality disorder. i think that bipolar probably "fits"...

  18. Name that part. Words patients use for their own anatomy.

    Nurse4Moms replied to JEHORAPHA's topic in General Nursing

    I've heard most of the submitted words for genitalia. Our patients do make our worklives interesting, yes?! Here are some I've encountered: breasts: hoohoo's, hoho's, tooties, bonkers, shelf, twins,...

  19. Question for Maternal/Child Nurses

    Nurse4Moms replied to Nurse4Moms's topic in Ob/Gyn

    I have been doing L&D nursing since October 1985! Well, had a couple of breaks (short ones) doing med/surg & clinical coordinator for a research program. Anyway, I have been talking about...

  20. Question for Maternal/Child Nurses

    Nurse4Moms replied to Nurse4Moms's topic in Ob/Gyn

    I actually work in a small navy hospital on the Gulf Coast! Interestingly enough, one of the senior pediatricians here is someone I worked with almost 20 years ago when I was active in the army - at...

  21. How to deal with being childless in L&D

    Nurse4Moms replied to pebbles1977's topic in Ob/Gyn

    :angryfire i understand about that adoption question. people just let it fly glibly out of their mouths, obviously not knowing what a long, expensive, and harrowing sojourn it can be to try to...

  22. Frustrations about L&D nursing

    Nurse4Moms replied to RNLaborNurse4U's topic in Ob/Gyn

    That would be so awesome! I wish, too, that with all this fancy monitoring stuff they would make it possible for the monitor to figure out when there are 15 X 15 accels & stop the NST's when...

  23. Favorite part of L&D Nursing

    Nurse4Moms replied to RNLaborNurse4U's topic in Ob/Gyn

    I have to tell you that most civilian hospitals do not have LPN's working in their L&D departments. You might have luck getting a position on mother/baby/postpartum in a larger hospital that...

  24. How to deal with being childless in L&D

    Nurse4Moms replied to pebbles1977's topic in Ob/Gyn

    I've been asked by almost every laboring mom about how many children I have. I answer that I don't have human kids, I have furkids. They usually smile at this. A couple of moms have continued their...

  25. Favorite part of L&D Nursing

    Nurse4Moms replied to RNLaborNurse4U's topic in Ob/Gyn

    I love working with OB triage patients and moms in labor. I truly enjoy teaching them during outpatient visits, and coaching in L&D. It's always interesting to see how family dynamics differ...