dawngloves

dawngloves BSN, RN

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  1. Vaginal Vs. C/S for micros

    dawngloves posted a topic in NICU, Neonatal

    Do your OBs do all micro deliveries via C/S even if mom is not Pre E or baby is not in distress? I've heard many talk about the baby wouldn't survive a lady partsl delivery, but we do all our PTL and...

  2. Nurse/Patient ratios

    dawngloves replied to TeenyBabyRN's topic in NICU, Neonatal

    Hazel ITA! I'd rather have the sickest kid on the unit with another than 4 feeder growers. GAWD! If half of them are poor feeders it's a real PITA! We aren't supposed to have more than one other pt....

  3. I want to but I am scared..........

    dawngloves replied to peaceful2100's topic in NICU, Neonatal

    Why don't you give the NM a call and ask her if you can stop by and talk to her ? If you don't think they'll let you transfer look somewhere else. Good

  4. NICU Volunteering

    dawngloves replied to babylove's topic in NICU, Neonatal

    I don't think it's crazy! Contact the volunteer department of your area hospitals. Good

  5. Anyone else see the TV ad where Gov. Rendell answers call bells in scrubs?

    dawngloves replied to oramar's topic in Pennsylvania Nursing

    I thought maybe I was the only one that though this was a dumb ass commercial. Like all we have to do is get pillows for people! I'd like to see Fast Eddie up to his elbows in a Code Brown or doing PM...

  6. You know you're a NICU nurse when...

    dawngloves replied to dawngloves's topic in NICU, Neonatal

    I've had a father come in and visit both his babies and their momma's in one day.:chuckle Many a time I've assisted in a PICC insertion and felt the top of my head getting hot! But my favorite is...

  7. Premie vs. "Miscarriage"

    dawngloves replied to acuteobrn's topic in Ob/Gyn

    25 weeks? Not a miscarriage where I come from. 20 weeks? Yeah, that's a

  8. timing of newborn bath

    dawngloves replied to kyobnurse's topic in Ob/Gyn

    We call it "Ballard" because she's our Chief of Neonatolgy. But it's all the same animal. BTW, I'm lookink at that pic and predicting that is how we will keep preemies in the

  9. Preemie for a day

    dawngloves replied to nurseamena's topic in NICU, Neonatal

    I work with someone that did it. She said it was great! They blidfold you and poke and prode you. Sounds like a good

  10. Culture shock!!

    dawngloves replied to NurseDJ's topic in NICU, Neonatal

    I came from adults and the thing I couldn't get over were the dosages! So small! I still have another nurse check me on things like KCL. If anything, NRP is alot easier than

  11. timing of newborn bath

    dawngloves replied to kyobnurse's topic in Ob/Gyn

    Rational for the

  12. timing of newborn bath

    dawngloves replied to kyobnurse's topic in Ob/Gyn

    Want to add that we have a new policy, no Vit K until the first bath regardles of mom's PNC or

  13. Careplans

    dawngloves replied to iceNICUnurse's topic in NICU, Neonatal

    Ohhhhh! been a while since I wrote a "real" care plan. :lol We use CPGs. I think that is a hospital thing

  14. timing of newborn bath

    dawngloves replied to kyobnurse's topic in Ob/Gyn

    I work NBN about twice a year. We bath after assesment and if baby's temp is above 98. It is done in the nursery because right after, the baby is put back in the isolette and temp is taken again...

  15. Careplans

    dawngloves replied to iceNICUnurse's topic in NICU, Neonatal

    Do I use who????!! :roll Sorry.Never hear of it Sigga.

  16. exams

    dawngloves replied to ktwlpn's topic in Ob/Gyn

    Sounds like teaching hospital to me. I'm sorry. I know people gotta learn, but I put no med student on my birth plan. I am not the class

  17. worried

    dawngloves replied to amyBSN's topic in Ob/Gyn

    What kind of ultrasound was it? Was it trans lady partsl or your basic fetal u/s. It's very hard to measure a cervix that

  18. confined to bed after 4cm?

    dawngloves replied to littlemrs's topic in Ob/Gyn

    What are they going to do? Yell at you if you get back in bed?:chuckle I say poo on them! If you are laboring fine, no pit, no decels, sit in a rocker! Dance aroung the room! Squat by the bed! Silly...

  19. OP babies=more pain?

    dawngloves replied to ChristyE's topic in Ob/Gyn

    (((ChristyE))) That must have been hard! What an ordeal! Just wanted to chime in and give a thumbs up the the board at I Village. I got great support there after I had a negative birth

  20. I am finally, totally convinced: There is NO NURSING SHORTAGE.

    dawngloves replied to Hellllllo Nurse's topic in General Nursing

    ITA, but that doesn't mean there is no

  21. I am finally, totally convinced: There is NO NURSING SHORTAGE.

    dawngloves replied to Hellllllo Nurse's topic in General Nursing

    They are not employed in nursing by choice, thereby adding to the

  22. Vaginal Vs. C/S for micros

    dawngloves replied to dawngloves's topic in NICU, Neonatal

    You know Jolie I thought so too, but could not find the thread. I can understand the rationale behind lady partsl deliveries and brain bleedsd. But honestly I have not noticed a difference in my unit....

  23. Femstops

    dawngloves replied to zambezi's topic in CCU, Coronary, Cardiac

    Oooo! Takin' me back! I hated to use the Fem Stops. Like a torture device for the pt! We only used it on a growing hematoma or non stop ooze. Wondering, are there people that still

  24. Acoustic Stimulator

    dawngloves replied to babynurse32's topic in Ob/Gyn

    Trying to picture scene :chuckle Hey, whatever

  25. Terminations

    dawngloves replied to tamrnmomof4's topic in Ob/Gyn

    Sorry about you bad week at work We've all been there. I'm just speculating on why they let these moms deliver. I know with PPROM around that age they will not stop labor because A) The lungs will be...