Congrats to you. I love to do deliveries with informed pts. If they want no interventions, I listen to them. The key here is educated!! When something does go wrong, I have to intervene. If the...
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I am with you on that!!!! Just watch the policies, I had to take out my cartilage and put in a retainer at work. Funny how they don't notice my daith, the worst part about that one is that I...
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My current tat is a work in progress, I am 5 hours into it and it's about 1/3 done. It is my birth sign along with my children's on my lower back. I love it As far as your tounge, I say keep it....
Glad to hear it went well. I am all for birthing plans, as long as they are within reason. Some people just don't get it. The baby will not breast feed if it is not breathing. Theses are the...
No, I have never looked. By the sounds of it I do not want to I am working on getting a NP in perinatal. There are only three programs that I have found thus far. They did not request a trnsfer of...
I am so sorry to here of your story. This only reinforces to me how we do things. I think that women who have lost or are losing a baby need extra special attention. And at times that can only come...
I also planned my wedding duting school. We were married on spring break. It was difficult to say the least, but I had family help-lots of it. My best friend was my maid of honor, she did most of...
With my first delivery I was not an OB nurse, and I am glad. It was an awful experience, 32 hours of labor, pit, epidural, almost a section, the a fourth degree tear. If I had the knowledge I have...
After reading all the responses it amazes me how hospitals vary in caring for pts. I hqve done L&D for 5 years now, and at our hospital we get everything that is over 16 weeks gestation on our...
I am glad I am not in your shoes. Just hang in there and hope that your management sees the light soon. Have you brought to attention the latest ACOG standards. Mabye it could
I can't agree with you more. The hospital I worked at had our new nurses not od high risk for a year off orentation. They could not even take triage pt.s' without havingan "experienced" nurse with...
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Let's see, last count I have four tattoos, and 10 piercings. But when I am at work, I remove the piercings and my tattoos are covered by my scrubs. There is a new trend in the tattooing business....
Unfortunatly I can not provide to many details. I can say, it was not my pt. I was charge nurse that night. That is their whole premis for the termination. This was a nurse with one years of...
:yelclap: I am in agreeance with most of you. I would much rather have a thank you, or an occasional good job, thanks for the hard work and dedication. I really do not need another pen from them. I...
I also had a hyst. last summer, at the age of 33. It is the best thing I have ever done. I did leave my ovaries, but now am having problems with reoccuring cysts. My Dr. and I are now debating...