Littlewonder

Hello from Zanzibar... from a nurse working with a humanitarian aide organization that does many different projects, I see often the educational side of things is more important than actual "nursing" actions over here. Example, the organization I am...

I have been at several facilities where nursing is not allowed to do sterile spec exams and the physicians are not in house. We would simply do a SVE (without goo, ouch) and then brush the gloved fingers over the slide. We had great ferning results...

I think one thing that has not been mentioned here that should is the cost to the infant of early formula feeding. I never make mom's feel guilty for using formula if that is their choice (and have times recommended it for large weight losses, etc.)...

I don't work critical care, but OB (labor, delivery, postpartum, and level one newborn nursery.) I have found that different areas of the country do many things differently. Some area's have nurses rupturing membranes of laboring patients and putti...

Littlewon's dh here. I was an orderly in OR and saw some great practical jokes. I think the classic was when the circ. cut off the scrubs pants while he was scubbed in. We also sterilized a rubber duck to place one one Dr's table. My favorite wit...

Littlewon's dh here, I used to be an orderly in OR and one day I was sent to pick up a patient from ER who had caught a circular saw, when I got there he was still fully dressed (including winter coat) so I told the nurse, "I can't take him anywhere,...

Now, working in an LDRP where we never get anyone before they are twenty weeks along, I have a hard time with this! Every once in a while we are called down to ER to find FHT on girls between 12 and 20 weeks. I don't have any problems with sixteen ...

As long as your due date is after graduation - not so bad. I ended up pregnant and delivered in the middle of my last semester. I took a year off to enjoy baby (but we really went into debt to do it.) I finished my last semester when baby was 8 mo...

I have dealt with this issue as I have worked LDRP for several years now and have miscarried three times while working LDRP. It really hurts in the middle of a miscarriage or when seeing someone who does not want or really is not caring for her baby...

Yes...:icon_cry: :icon_roll and I have my husband and children with me, just not the same as being home...

Hey, don't feel so bad - it CAN happen. Maybe not officially, but I have definately had it happen to me (verified by repeat exams by the nurse midwife who felt the same thing!) There are several possible senario's: she could have had some swelling...

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At risk of getting flamed here;) , I really think we need to take all of our supposed "guidelines" (AAP and all the others...) and use our own critical thinking when we are looking at a parenting issue and not a health issue. For me, co-sleeping was...

I ran into this problem a lot because I never used a blanket when I was nursing in public. My babies got hot and would pull blankets off - that left me much more exposed than if I just discreetly put them on and let my shirt cover everything up to t...

I don't doubt Rob's story at all. Nurses take a lot of nasty stuff without even flinching - and expect it. Because of a long history of nurses not standing up for themselves, there is quite a history of abuses of the system that may or may not go ...

I just have one little comment to make. As a fairly new traveler (on to second assignment!) I do not float!!! It is already difficult enough to learn the routines, locations of supplies, and physician preferences in the department you signed up fo...

No, you will do fine. Just remember to take a deep breath and smile when you think you just can't do it. I have had to start jobs at that point in pregnancy and while it is always stressful, it is doable. If you are going to twelve hour shifts - m...

I am in the exact same situation right now and I found an interesting key phrase to put into google "short term health insurance." It brings up much less expensive insurances for those between major insurance coverage (like, between jobs, just leavi...

Hello from another 5th wheeling travel nurse. My husband and I and our two preschool boys live in a 33 footer with a superslide. We love it! (It is much easier to keep track of the 18 month old than it was at the house!) You just have to follow th...

Hey, I do LDRP and have used Nubain frequently in one hospital for about three years. We did not have the irritable babies described, but we did use a mother/baby skin to skin type care model. I really dislike using Demerol - keep that Narcan hand...

We use Prosec and I really like the system. It attatches to the cord clamp so that you don't have to worry about removal or stink (until the cord falls off!) You do need diapers that fit though. We can't get purchasing to order newborn diapers and...

Just to place a slightly different viewpoint here... I am a LDRP/ newborn nurse. I am also a breastfeeding educator. I have also had two children. As a patient, as a nurse, and as a breastfeeding teacher (and breastfeeding mom) I can tell you that...

If I understand right, it would be better to refuse the new admit. I do not think you could be "abandoning" a client who you had not taken report on and not cared for - just as if you come to work and are told you are to care for 16 people you would...

Wow, in our small LDRP, we have maybe a 5-10% epidural rate!!! Because the docs have to do them!!! ...so we do a lot of comfort interventions! Our moms generally do great without, but I admit I kind of miss them from working a unit with a higher r...

I am currently working in a LDRP, NN unit where we do everything (including ward clerk!) We only do about 35 deliveries a month, but then again we only have about 15 staff members so we each have plenty of opportunities for labor and delivery. I wo...