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I'm not an OB nurse but experienced a neonatal loss my son was 18 days old. I would not want a nurse who couldn't or did not want to deal with loss. Even after having him the post-partum nurse was great my baby stayed in the NICU so even that feels like some sort of loss. Its not healthy to keep the baby for days after death, everytime mom would wak up the baby would not. thats my opinion

I found more of the Blog that I think was cut out here: http://blog.myspace.com/index.cfm?fuseaction=blog.view&friendID=79481063&blogID=164112043&MyToken=8bdc119f-2ea7-4fb5-a863-a7ccde6dbec4 This kinda makes it sound even grimmer. Feel sorry for the parents and yes they do sound very angry and it is a one sided view.

WOW! What a heartbreaking situation. While I am not a NICU nurse. I am a nurse and a parent of a preemie who may not of had the same situation but in the end I had to let him go. I can't say the parents or the hospital is right. But how can the hospital just stop and withhold care? That is not there child, I was given a decision and I made the decision to stop care on my baby. While maybe the parents have a clouded sense of having a miracle happen to save their baby, its their decision. At least in my opinion. I have to wonder if they know their baby is suffering, and if they realize that even though she is still "here" she may actually already be gone. It will be interesting to see others opinions and see what will actually happen.

Just wanted to update. I decided to send cards and pictures of him. I was going to send one card to the whole staff with pictures, one to each of the 3 nurses who took care of him after he whad NEC and one to his neonatologist. Its hard to decide what to write because well words can't really begin to express the gratitude to someone who cares for your baby and cares for you. Thank you all for responding and thank you for posting things I can read that make me think that I made the best decision with my son.

You can work at Denver Health medical center as an LPN and St Joes which is an exempla hospital. those are pretty much the only hospitals in denver. if you want clinics try Kaiser great insurance

I was enrolled last spring and dropped due to family problems. Yes UOP does have a LPN-BSN program here in denver at the lone tree campus I am not sure who the contact is now for admissions but will ask my councelor. most of my credits transefered in and I got some credit for everything. Yes it is like 30 months but if you take into account that your lpn-rn is like a 1 year and then rn-bsn is 1-1 1/2 years not counting prereqs and waiting lists its pretty good I think. I will probably be going back the end of this month or in november

Hi I'm not sure if this is the appropriate place to post this but here I go. I am a med-surg nurse and had a baby august 16th a 27 weeker he was taken off of life support on september 3rd after doing great for 2 weeks and developing NEC and lossing most of his intestines or about half unable to maintain blood pressure and so on. His nurses were the best as I'm sure you all get all the time. I wasn't one of the parents bringing coffee and snakcs as I did and still believe as a nurse this is my job I don't need anything extra though sometimes it is nice :wink2: My question is how do you thank someone who cared for my child and me? I know nothing can ever show my appreciation but any thoughts? I know every nurses name that took care of him. Thank You in advance for any help you can be.

where work many of our frequent Dialysis patients who come in once a week because they are illegal/no insurance and can not recieve outpt dialysis do not get an IV when they are on Tele. The docs who know them during admit write for it. But even if not it is not our standard to put one in on them. Even though any other tele pt must have an IV.

As a pregnant floor nurse this is my first baby and I am exhausted! I'm 5 months and haven't had any problems except terrible back pain, lifting restrictions. Your first year is hectic as by itself, your first pregnancy is scary and exhausting. Give yourself time to get used to your new jobs first. Secondly, to qualify for short term disability and FMLA you have to be at most jobs for at least six months to a year.

I'm sure this has been asked before but was unable to find it in my search. So my question is I work on a busy med-surg floor lots of MRSA, VRE, C-diff and any other infectious disease you can think of. when should I inform work I'm pregnant? I'm approx. 5 weeks first appointment is not until April 6th, Just kind of worried about exposure to the nasty bugs I had a miscarraige 6 months ago and well I'm just a little nervous. thanks for any info you can give!

I acutally lost weight due to night shift I think. (too much red bull). But my advise is say NOOOOOO! to the vending machines and ordering out. get a pedometer and try to walk the halls if you ever get any "free" time:roll

WOW! that would be alot of ativan. I've seen 2mg q 2hr but never 10mg po. I question anything that takes more than a couple pills to get the dose. though I have given 5 or 6 pills of methadone to get the right dose but thats a little different. Doc should of looked at what he was writing and maybe try something different because it doesn't look like the ativan works for this guy.

I've had mine peirced since I was 15, it's been done 3 times due to various things that would make me take it out but only the "bottom" of the hole has healed the top has never. ugly scar! I had a friend who kept hers in through her whole pregnancy It's very stretched out and funny looking but to each their own. I can think of worse things then a belly ring at that age. piercings will eventually heal, a tattoo would be permenent......

Med-surg max 5 patients.

Where I work Weekend is considered Sat & Sun or after midnight on friday if you work nights. the everyother weekend thing would probably start after orientation or the following weekend after you start.

Yes, I already have my LPN and I have all my prereqs except Chemistry. I'll probably move near the military base because I have a friend in the air force. I spoke with the advisor their in phoenix @ UOP they said their LPN-BSN will start sometime this summer. I moving in April. Do you know which hospitals will hire LPNs in Phoenix?

I am moving from Denver and the waiting lists here for all of the nursing programs are long you could possibly wait 1-2 years to get in. My question is how hard is it to get into the programs for say LPN-RN programs if you have all your prereqs. Also I had started the LPN-BSN program at University of Phoenix does any have any insite into their program in Phoenix. Thanks for your info!

Medical-Surgical Nursing Reviews & Rationales. I think its published by prentice Hall.

Thank you all for your words of wisdom. while no I did not recieve any drugs to complete the miscarraige or an ultrasound since my Hcg level was so low. I did go back to my doctors office on wednesday and was told my Hcg levels had went almost back down to normal and that I should be fine. I don't know that anything at that point that the doctor or anyone else could say to me could or would of been constructive to me. While I was not trying to get pregnant and it came as a huge shock it still hurt. And I to know girls who welcomed a miscariage so they would not have to pay for an abortion. While the doctor quoted statistics of 1 in 5 and most women....... all I wanted was for someone to say "I'm sorry for your loss." I don't believe he (the doctor) knew what to say I just don't think that should be said to someone who was visably upset. I also think that if I was older and trying to get pregnant yes it would or could of been worse. I could of been further along, but I still can't agree with the way it was said and when. I keep thinking when your patient dies or when a friend dies even if they were older and led a full life you wouldn't tell their family after they died in a unexpected accident, that accidents are one of the leading causes of death or some other mindless comment. Your first response would be I am sorry for your loss. at least thats what I think most people would say first. But thanks for your comments and for listening. And hopefully I'll have many babies in the future. :)

I spent a evening earlier this week in the ED, while I was only a couple of weeks pregnant I started cramping and bleeding heavy. SO while in the room the doctor after running my Hcg levels which was only 25.5 told me that I was only a little bit pregnant and went on and on about how 1 in 5 pregnant women have a miscarriage and on and on. I was also told by this doctor that since I am only 20 years old it was not as bad as if I was 40 and had been trying to get pregnant. Now I understand that yes this happens because of nature but what would make anyone think that by telling me it's not as sad for me to have a miscarraige but it would be if I was 40! :angryfire I understand that yes if I was 40 it probably would be more upsetting but why would you tell anyone this? Just needed to vent because with everything going on with me that day I was appauld that anyone would think that information was comforting.

Has anyone heard anything about University of phoenix LPN-BSN program? Any information would be helpful just wondering what everyone else thinks about their programs.