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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 pt. wants NO interventions, then they should deliver at home. If they are at the hospital I have no choices, my hands are tied. Please pass that along to your pts. as you gain your CNM.

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 sometimes hook it on steph. I plan on getting more, someday. Right now I am focusing on getting my ink done. Gone are the days of judging because of tattoos :balloons:

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. I love mine. I put in a clear ball for work. I have had it for over two years and most people don't know. Not only that the guys love 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 parents I Fear!!

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 my ADN grades, only a copy of my current liscense and my BSN grades. Mabye that is the difference?

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 from those who are trained to give it. I would never put down an ER nurse, they are wonderful nurses, but they are not trained in fetal losses, nor should they have to be. That is the great thing about the nursing profession, we all find our area of love, sometimes it just takes awhile.

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 the calls for me, I had given her a copy of my school schedule so she could plan meetings around it. My mother was also a God send. She knew what I wanted and how things were to go. She made the final plans with the florist and such. It was a long roas, but I made it. Only I wish I could see into the future. After ten years of marriage, three children, I am now divorced. I gave him the choice between alcohol anf a family; he choose wrong! Good luck :)

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 now back then, things would have been different. I would have requested my epidural before my pit. The epidural is what allowed me to relax and change my cervix. The only reson I had a fourth degree is because I delivered him straight posterior and then both shoulders at the same time. This experience has allowed me to talk many pts. through rough times in labor. My second labor was also an experience to behold after the first. I went from rupture and 1cm to 4cm in two hours. Then 4cm to delivered in 15 minutes. So I have done the whole natural birth as well, didn't much care for it. With my third I told my OB that I wanted and epidural before AROM. Which was a good thing because I delivered 20 minutes after they ruptured me. So what it all boils down to is pt. choice. What ever you want discuss with you OB. They should honor your requests (within reason) or find a new doc.

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 unit. We have specially trained RTS nurses to care for them. We place a blue rose on the door so that all know it is a demise. When at all possible we try to keep them away from laboring pts. I have not trained in RTS, but care for many demises at night. And I am up front with them and ask them how they would like things to go. If they want to stay on the unit, go home, or to another floor. These decisions should always be the pts. as far as I am concerned. It is a difficult time in their lives ,why should hospitals and policies make it more difficult for them?

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 help.

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 them. The problem being all of us experienced nurses had to take pt.s of our own. Now we are doing our pt.s and babysitting all th rest. Tlak about a risk to your liscense. Now I have been terminated because of a situation like this, I had my own high risk pt. and was watch over a new nurse with a FD. Well her sitatuion turned bad, and I got fired. Were is the justice?? Sometimes it is not worth the stress!! :angryfire

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. They call them professional tattoos. Ones that can be covered by work clothes. They are actually becoming quit popular. I did a research paper on this subject, and thae stats. on how the public views tattoos is changing. They no longer view them as a sign of a bad person, or the typical thought of a biker. Now tattoos are being seen as works of, a creation on skin rather than canvas. This is also in part to the increased use of colors, not just the typical black ink. We are all nurses, but we are also individuals that have our own lives and personalities. If someone judges us because of they way that we look. it is their loss. They will never get to know what an interesting people we are. :innerconf

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 experience, they say that I should have been more involved. When she asked for help, I was there, I checked up on the pt., I provided the nurse with guidance. I also had a pt. of my own. This is a new management team, and for the past 2-3 months I have felt that they were looking for a reason to fire me. I think that they used this situation, blew it out of proportion, and got their way. Hopefully the grievance board sees that this is the situation. :uhoh21:

: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 think that the idea of this week is so that the general public can recognize the nurse's, and to thank them for what we do. Most of the patients thank me at the time they are there, and t hat means more then anything to me. As long as my patients are well cared for and appreciate it, that is all the recognition I need.

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 about wether to take out the ovaries, or go on birth control. The wat I look at it is either way I ma on hormones so let's just take them out.