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I personally do not touch anyone without gloves, babies or moms. I even put them on to do a blood pressure.

Of course someone would hire you, everyone has to start somewhere. Just keep trying!

Nurse/pt ratio is a "smart" one. Do you have written protocols- ie pit inductions, iufd, amnioinfusions. How long is orientation? Do you get the same preceptor?

I think I need to work with you guys! Lol. Out of the 6/7 RNs we staff there are always 2 in the nursery which is why the other areas suffer from poor staff nurse ratios.

Sounds like a dream! We are an LDRP with 120 births/month. We are normally a 1:5/6 couplets. We only staff 6-7 RNs per night with maybe an on call. On calls are rarely utilized because of our "budget". Charge RNs are not to take patients, but I usually end up with at least 2 labors by the end of the night.

Your hospital should offer them. Wait until you start working in L&D they should teach you.

We recover our sections in our 5 bed ob rec room. We have our own ORs too. We don't require anything other than CPR and NRP for our nurses.

First of all why is she getting so much iv fluid? She is going to me put into resp distress, lower the d5 so she gets a total (Both mainline and mag) of 125 an hr. methergine shouldn't be used for this case- because of the bp. Sometimes pit alone won't stop bleeding, especially when mag is involved, but there are other options. Mag is a muscle relaxer, the uterus is a muscle- make sense?