Fairah01

We do bedside reporting. We do frown sometimes, especially when they are asking us to do it on our pretermers that are in L&D simply because we they are usually sleeping at shift change and we are not already in their room. On our labor patients most of us are at the bedside due to our hospital being 1:1 for epidurals and/or pit so doing bedside is fine. We usually have social issues/lab results/histor unknown by other family memebers jotted down and point to it on the paper then if we need to go into detail we wil step outside once report is "completed." For rule outs unless we happen to be in the room at shift change we usually don't do bedside report there either. Basically, we suck at following the rule unless we are already in the room! :) But it can be done and it's the recommendations, as a PP stated-it increases patient satisfaction.

At my hospital we take Advanced FM after 2 years, we took Intermedite at 6 months. In the past year we have all become ACLS certified and it is required now for all new hires *most places will say required with in first 6 months or year*

I work at a very busy hospital in Texas, we put everything on a pump! We have patients who range from vanilla/granola to high risk. As far as being able to bolus we simply put a piggy back and attach it to the port below the pump. This allows us to bolus for epidurals and decels. I love the pump!