DalekRN

This thread sounds a whole lot like the ASN nurses fussing about having to get their BSN.

There's always the option of going back to school for a master's, even a non nursing masters.

I am applying to the university of cincinnati, msn fnp, it was recommended by multiple people.

I know some schools won't allow it.

Don'tlend it to any residents who "forgot theirs and need yours quick" you won't see it again.

Get the BSN asap. It's becoming the minimum standard.

Not your place. You are there to learn and observe. It's perfectly fine to make up a used bed.

That is horribly misogynistic. So you don't scare patients? This was only directed at the women right? I think you should tell them the guys need to wear makeup to clinical too. What a load of crap.

It is definitely , lots of women have done it. My friend had a baby like a week before starting a graduate nursing program. You may find you need a semester off and most schools will accommodate that.

When I graduate from NP school I will have only about $35,000 total debt including undergrad.

If it helps, my father in law is an Ob/Gyn and employs a whnp. I asked him if it matters what school np's attend and he said he couldn't care less.

At my hospital, preterm and SGA babies are tested q2-3 hr for 24 hrs, and LGA babies and those born to type 1, 2 or GDM moms are tested q2-3 hr for 12 hrs. The last three blood sugars have to be above 45.

No, I delivered in Michigan and I declined the erythromycin

They did talk about it with us in the last semester. On our unit it seems to be toward the younger nurses. I get what everyone is saying and it helps.

I am about done. Where I work there is this culture that allows for day shift nurses to be flat out ******* to the offgoing night shifters during report. It is a poisonous culture on my otherwise great unit. It stands in such contrast to a few wonderful day shift nurses who will come in and help solve problems and are a calming presence.

I have to add a dose of reality to those who are saying that clinical time is about learning skills like IVs, Foleys, blood administration, etc... Nope. Just nope. You do not graduate nursing school knowing how to do those things. You graduate having seen them done, maybe done them once or twice- introduced to them. You only know how to do them after doing them on orientation and then again and again as a new grad nurse on your own with help from more experienced nurses. Then after many repetitions on the job you may start to feel you know them. I want to echo a previous poster who said that clinical time is about learning assessment and critical thinking skills. And, of course, its about learning how to stand on your feet and not pee very often and be hungrier than you'd like.

This is such an amazing thread. I needed this. Gotta add my postpartum two cents. Did you think when you had your baby it would just sleep when you wanted it to and act cute and never cry and not be an inconvenience? Did you think you could be up all night delivering a baby, then awake all day with your visitors, then have your baby not need you the next night so you could sleep 8 hours? You didn't want me to wake you for pain meds... Don't yell at me when you're in pain.

My husband prefers to see female doctors, I think it is a comfort zone thing. Definitely not a creeper thing.

Lactation education resources is an online program I used to get the 90 hours in for pathway 1.,

Yeah I have to say it again. Baby friendly at our hospital doesn't take away the nursery and shouldn't at any hospital.

People are gonna feel guilty about stuff no matter what. I know.moms are gonna fel guilty though and I work to minimize it. If a mom asks for formula from the beginning, I give it, I may ask "what made you decide to formula feed?" and just chat. If a mom asks for formula after having breastfed for awhile, I see if I can resolve concerns about breastfeeding and see if they have questions I can answer. If they say they want it, I give it. I'm not required to talk about the risks of formula feeding to my patients. I didn't know that was part of baby friendly??

That's baloney. I worked ltc for six months, quit because I was too overloaded and it was unsafe, and quickly got a job in postpartum.

Wow. Just wow. They would not have said that to you if you were male. Sexism at its finest. I am blown away. It's not women's fault that they happen to be the ones who become temporarily unable to work after having a baby. That's how our species moves forward! And to anyone who says crap about the 12 week interruption in learning in the first year or two to take time out for a baby, my answer to you is how else is it supposed to be done?? Babies come when they come!

When a mom wants the baby in the nursery, I look at their situation. Are they crying from stress? Or, are they a second, third, etc time mom and totally solid on baby care and know what to do when they go home? Bam, let's make a plan for when baby will come back, enjoy your rest. My first time moms I really encourage to keep baby with them overnight so they learn how to care for their kiddos when they go home. I tell them It's like practice for being home and that I am there to support them. If they then insist then I absolutely take baby and make a plan for her return. Baby friendly is not about removing options for parents rest in the hospital. It is about enabling and empowering them to keep their babies with them so they can learn their babies and bond with them. It's about not routinely taking them away from their moms, instead, its about judicious use of the nursery. As far as pacifiers/bottles, if a parent asks for it, I try to resolve what concerns they have which is NOT a lecture at all, and then if the pacifier/bottle is the best solution for them we go forward. Many times it truly is a great solution and then they are using those products with truly informed consent. No baby friendly hospital says that parents canNOT send their baby to the nursery or canNOT formula feed or use a pacifier. That is the RN's mistaken interpretation. Lecturing is not a part of baby friendly.

I am a year and a half in and just this week I am feeling super solid on charting as I go (as in not having a ton to chart after report) and knowing most of the little things. It is insane that we have to feel this way, when people are at their most vulnerable, their nurses are at their most stressed. I am there with ya. Ask for help and keep asking until you feel solid. Find a friendly mentor on night shift. Take your vitamins and do your fun healthy cooking, just do a bunch of it on one day so you have it in the freezer for your busy days. Self care!!