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I've never worked with OnAssignment, but they have a new recruiter that I have worked with and she is wonderful!! I don't want to break any rules so I can only saythat if you email me privately I will get back with you. Having travelled for over 4 ye...

These are wonderful. Here's another murphy's law - when you small OB department - 11 staff members total - have 2 on vacation and 2 with emergency surgeries you'll do 1/4 of the month's deliveries in one 12 hour shift!

105. You read threads more than once 'in case I missed something'.

Another vote FOR joining. Besides the magazines (Lifelines & JOGNN) with their respective learning opportunities, the chapter meetings are a great way to learn AND to network. You never know when you might need that name in another hospital for a...

To answer the OP's question re: Bradley vs. LaMaze: my first child was lamaze - it didn't work very well in transition my second was bradley - it worked great for me Now, 28 years later, I tell any patients/family/etc that asks to take ...

QUOTE:Sounds like you need to move. Seriously, where do you work? With that much experience you should be making a tidy sum. Plus, you could do travel nursing and make some serious money. I applaud your years of experience, but if you think you're no...

Just want to say I'll be thinking of you in my prayers.

:flowersfo as nursemaa said thank you!! :balloons: we need to be working together not tearing each other down, regardless of our roles.

Been here since 2000, can't remember anymore. (Too old to remember much it seems).:smackingf

I agree- if you come to me with a problem, come with a possible solution. That is the policy nursing admin has for the managers, so we have adopted it with our staff. It has cut down on the '*itch and moan' sessions:uhoh21: Point of interest - I ha...

Siri, I agree with you that it is different with grandkids, but sometimes it can be VERY frustrating to have parents complain when they don't have a clue!!We had a baby we were resusitating - apgar 1 at 1 min - and the whole time the parents watched ...

In response to rouqie - I lived in that area bef ore and since the strike started. The nurses there before were wonderful, but the admin has always been anti-nurse - "they should be thankful they have jobs" and "who do they think they are questioning...

I agree with llg's reply. You may never know exactly what happened:( , but handling this in a positive and professional manner will do you more good than any other response at this point. It's hard to handle the anger and dissapointment, but nothing...

I think 1 other person said this but . . as a manager, I can't deal with issues if I don't know they are happening and I can't be there 24/7. This issue is one that won't go away. Sooner or later she will be caught and fired, and it seems to me that...

Welcome!! Deb is very correct!! It doesn't matter if what your educational track - you have to pass RN boards and then you are an RN. It may matter in some hospitals for management positions - it depends on where you are and how many BSNs are availab...

i've read this thread with interest (i'm a manager - for 1 year now) and have to say that treesawrn put most things in perspective. i took the management job because our unit had been without one for 6-7 months and you could see the effect of having ...

Great advice Deb. So often we nurses seem intimidated into not instituting the chain of command and then compuond the problem by not documenting on an incident/event report and/or notifying managers. Frequently just informing the physician/resident "...

I am a veteran OB nurse (25+ years) and now am a manager (sorry - I went over to the dark side). Anyway, one of the best L&D nurses I know is on my present staff and had to have a sudden hysterectomy in her 20s (due to cancer). She's now 50 and i...

I walked out of an assignment in NYC - the only time I've ever done that. My advice: #1.make your company get your housing for you (yes you make more $ doing it yourself, but unless you know NYC it's dicey) #2. Be very certain what area you are in - ...

After 25+ years, yes, I've seen dads faint, but very few and most of those were due to hypoglycemia not 'gross stuff'. It is very important to make sure someone feeds dad, especially if the section is after a long labor (even a glass of OJ will get h...

Possibly what your friend was supposed to have been told is that anyone receiving rhogam should get a card to carry that gives the date and # of rhogam units they received. For approx 72 hours after rhogam injection it can affect type/crossmatching. ...

:roll It's not fair - since I work OB, how can I make money like that?? Canoehead, that was a great link - just what I needed to start my day with a laugh.

I totally agree with you Deb. I was at an AWHONN conference last month and one of the things the speaker said is as professionals we have to stop worrying about "the doctor's gonna yell". We need to do our job - be an advocate for both our patients ...

As a new manager, I was made very aware of the fact that FMLA is federally mandated and whether I agreed or approved was irrelevant. At our institution all leaves - for any reason - are handled throught HR. It prevents the kind of crap that you're go...

I just got an update from our state lab and for the PKU (at least in MI) there is no longer any need for feeding at all. The important thing - according to them is to wait 24 hours because some of the tests (we now do 27) are inaccurate before that. ...