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Hi. I'm about to graduate from Nursing school in May and I wanted to know how your job search experience was. Which hospitals should I avoid? Are any of you planning on going back for masters degrees? Did any of you go directly into specialty areas or did you all start on Med-Surg floors? I'm trying to decide if I want to work in Manhattan, or Brooklyn or Queens (where I'm from). The application process seems totally overwhelming and I would really appreciate some words of wisdom from people who were in this situation very shortly ago.

Hello, my name is Tiffanie and I am currently a junior nursing student at the University at Buffalo in New York State. My assignment is to choose a topic pertinent to the current Ob-Gyn nurse and to get some current nurses' opinions on the topic. The topic that I would like your opinion on is the seemingly increasing rates of C-Sections. Cesarean sections have been on the rise in first-time mothers and currently constitute 22% of total U.S. births. There is a common belief that doctors' habits may overshadow the actual need for a C-section. While doing my clinical rotation in the labor & delivery ward of a suburban-Buffalo hospital, more than half of the patients that I cared for on any given day had delivered via C-section. Most of these patients were young women and some were on their first pregnancy and birth. I would like to know what you feel about this topic. Do you believe there is a growing rate of unnecessary C-sections? What do you feel are the factors influencing the rise in C-section rates? What do you feel is the nurse's role in this growing trend?