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  1. Running into the room for every D-cel

    at your cervix replied to waterfall99's topic in Ob/Gyn

    I have been an L&D nurse for 9 years now and yes I go into the room for every decel. Well, almost every decel, I don't worry about short V and W shaped variables but, is it really going to hurt...

  2. How do you explain decel situation to pts?

    at your cervix replied to mitchsmom's topic in Ob/Gyn

    I think more important that what you say is how you say it. I am always completely honest with my patients, I remain very calm and say something to the effect of "It looks like the baby may not be...

  3. What do patients say that irks you?

    at your cervix replied to NurseforPreggers's topic in Ob/Gyn

    Sorry if this one has already been covered-I didn't read all the posts in this thread. But.....What bugs me the most is when a patient is talking on their cell phone and they refuse to get off so you...

  4. Frontier in May??

    at your cervix replied to quiltncatch's topic in Ob/Gyn

    Just submitted application, I am hoping to!!! Maybe I'll see you

  5. Worst information given in shift report!!!

    at your cervix replied to AMARTIN1's topic in General Nursing

    The worst report I ever got was from a nurse that reported that her patient was new mom who had just delievered her second baby, had had a full term infant that died of sids and had one miscarriage....

  6. It's a Hospital, Not a Hotel (Gripe)

    at your cervix replied to daisybaby's topic in Ob/Gyn

    Reading all of these replies reminds me of one of my "favorite" patients. G4 P3, all previous children in foster care. Pt presents in labor and when she walks in she says "you need to know something...

  7. It's a Hospital, Not a Hotel (Gripe)

    at your cervix replied to daisybaby's topic in Ob/Gyn

    Here are some of my favorites: Patients that want to strictly breastfeed, no bottles, no pacifiers but tell you to take the baby out at ten pm and not bring it back until 7 am, when you ask how she...

  8. Britney demanding background checks for her L&D nurses..

    at your cervix replied to Peachy720's topic in Ob/Gyn

    I guess my question is, how does she "reserve" rooms at a hospital? And how does she know what time frame to reserve said

  9. What do patients say that irks you?

    at your cervix replied to NurseforPreggers's topic in Ob/Gyn

    I can handle the weird things that patients say due to lack of education or understanding, but it really irks me when patients try to manipulate. Like for example, the patient I took care of last...

  10. Pain control-Nursing intervention or pharmacy intervention

    at your cervix posted a topic in General Nursing

    Sorry if this is a little long. Our department recently had problems with nurses that were giving medication that was often too strong for pt's pain level. For example, first time mom with intact...

  11. Who controls the certification of scrub techs?

    at your cervix posted a topic in Operating Room

    I have a couple of questions regarding scrub techs. I work in OB, we have one "scrub tech" that scrubs only for c-sections, she is not a CST, she has never attended classes to become such, but the...

  12. Need info about Left Heart Hypoplasia

    at your cervix posted a topic in NICU, Neonatal

    I need some information. My niece was born last Wednesday and was diagnosed with Left Heart Hypoplasia. Long story short, given all the options, Mom and Dad have decided to have surgery to convert...

  13. Funniest injury you have ever seen.....

    at your cervix replied to MrsWampthang's topic in Emergency

    Pelvic/lady partsl exams are contraindicated in heaving bleeding of unknown origin in pregnancy unless totally necessary (ie pt feels urge to push) in this case, pt denied pain of any kind so we...

  14. Funniest injury you have ever seen.....

    at your cervix replied to MrsWampthang's topic in Emergency

    Pregnant patient & husband having "vigorous" sex, somehow got a spontaneous labial laceration, it bled so bad she called 911, didn't tell us about the sex incident (in fact denied it for a long...

  15. Shoulder dystocia charting

    at your cervix replied to Baby Catcher's topic in Ob/Gyn

    Zaphanelli (or Xaphinelli or something like that) is a rarely used maneuver in which the shoulder dystocia is so severe that no other maneuvers work, you push the head back in and do a c-section. I...

  16. Nurses that give bottles to breastfeeding babies.

    at your cervix posted a topic in Ob/Gyn

    I don't want to start a big controversy about nipple confusion or bottle vs breast feeding, but I need some input. I work on an LDRP unit. We have 2 nurses (both night shift) that very frequently (I...

  17. Nurses that give bottles to breastfeeding babies.

    at your cervix replied to at your cervix's topic in Ob/Gyn

  18. Shoulder dystocia charting

    at your cervix replied to Baby Catcher's topic in Ob/Gyn

    The main things to chart are the length of the dystocia (time between delivery of head and delivery of the body) and maneuvers utilized to relieve the dystocia (such as McRoberts, Woods-Corkscrew,...

  19. Patient didn't know she was pregnant

    at your cervix replied to cabbage patch rn's topic in Ob/Gyn

    I have also seen many of these cases most common in teenagers. I have a friend who is also an L&D nurse and had a patient once that came in in labor, swore she wasn't pregnant depsite the fht's...

  20. Anencephaly

    at your cervix replied to pebbles1977's topic in Ob/Gyn

    Don't feel bad about your reaction to the baby. It can be difficult the first time that you see something like this. Regarding no brain vs small head-usually the baby only has a brain stem, which...

  21. Wishes Regarding Students in Birth Plans

    at your cervix replied to BabyRN2Be's topic in Ob/Gyn

    I have been frustrated with the students that our hospital has had lately. I know that everyone needs to learn, but it seems that lately the students have no respect for the patients and only want to...

  22. Induction craze

    at your cervix replied to Blizzard's topic in Ob/Gyn

    I am frustrated with patients that demand to be induced and drive the docs crazy until the induce. In the past week I have had patients that have gone to their doctors office every day for 2 weeks...

  23. Your routine?

    at your cervix replied to Butternut's topic in General Nursing

    Well, I work LDRP so it may be a little different setting. Our assessments/vitals are due at 2100, I go in and see each of my patients to introduce myself, take out their dinner trays, get them meds,...

  24. Waiting for cord to stop pulsating before clamped & cut

    at your cervix replied to becca.utns's topic in Ob/Gyn

    Whenever I have a patient request this, I give them all of the information (as many have stated already) about too much blood, polycythemia etc, and most haven't heard anything about that side of it!...

  25. cephalic OP position and pushing, what is the best position for mom to push?

    at your cervix replied to Mazzi's topic in Ob/Gyn

    Thanks. I can't take full credit for it. One of the physicians that I work with used to have a licence plate frame that said Dr._______ at your cervix. She doesn't use it anymore so I kind of took...