mari31666

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1. Highest nursing salary

   mari31666 replied to Nursebarebari's topic in General Nursing

   i started at 31 an hr plus night differential. we get for experience also. we have to pay co payments for our insurance and pay for parking. we have no food options on the night shift and are lucky...

2. Things Patients Have Taught Me NOT To Do

   mari31666 replied to Trixxy's topic in Nursing Humor

   i thought i only heard those kind of things in new

3. Things Patients Have Taught Me NOT To Do

   mari31666 replied to Trixxy's topic in Nursing Humor

   :trout: How about: Never bring your new "baby mama" to your old "baby mama's" delivery. or your two pregnant girlfriends to the same labor and delivery unit on the same night at the same time....

4. Duties of OB nurses (and others) Please feel free to add!

   mari31666 replied to SmilingBluEyes's topic in Ob/Gyn

   we do circulate and scrub for c/s, d&c, d&e and cerclage removals. we all do recovery room also. we are required to have BCLS. the circulator also does baby care, but peds is always at...

5. Duties of OB nurses (and others) Please feel free to add!

   mari31666 replied to SmilingBluEyes's topic in Ob/Gyn

   we get scrub and circulate orientation when sign on. did two weeks just scrubbing. the nurse educator who worked for many years on l & d did mine. talk about hell. my facility has 3 ors on...

6. Duties of OB nurses (and others) Please feel free to add!

   mari31666 replied to SmilingBluEyes's topic in Ob/Gyn

   i forgot translator. i'm in brooklyn ny. we got them

7. Duties of OB nurses (and others) Please feel free to add!

   mari31666 replied to SmilingBluEyes's topic in Ob/Gyn

   we circulate, scrub and do newborn care. as well as do all the ward clerk duties, do our own peri care and transfer our patients (cuz it's easier than hearing the techs tut and whine because you ask)...

8. What Is Your Most Gross, Yucky, Disgusting Nursing Horror Story?

   mari31666 replied to yazisizit's topic in Nursing Humor

   the other day i was assigned to recovery in labor and delivery so i got a repeat c/s that came in contracting. it seems to be that each time i get my hair done i end up circulating in the OR. so i...

9. What Gets to You??

   mari31666 replied to mshooha's topic in Emergency

   in labor and delivery we see a lot of blood, body fluids and poop. i deal with it. i just hate counting the bloody laps from a c/section in the O/R when you circulate. and scrub in on a section...

10. Non-viable baby, born alive -parent won't hold him, what do you do?

    mari31666 replied to enfermeraSG's topic in Ob/Gyn

    i just want to let you know that where i work we don't have policies about such things. usaully the parents hold their baby past the point of death. the other night i was covering another nurses...

11. What Is Your Most Gross, Yucky, Disgusting Nursing Horror Story?

    mari31666 replied to yazisizit's topic in Nursing Humor

    someone i know called me up and told me she had a tampon stuck up there and wanted my opinion of what to do (i work l&d) i stopped laughing after about 5 mins and asked her since when was it...

12. What Is Your Most Gross, Yucky, Disgusting Nursing Horror Story?

    mari31666 replied to yazisizit's topic in Nursing Humor

    when i was a student (but also an lpn) my partner (also an lpn) got this 85 yr old female from a nursing home. we had to give her bed bath. she had so much skin and dirt and scaly silver crud in...

13. What Is Your Most Gross, Yucky, Disgusting Nursing Horror Story?

    mari31666 replied to yazisizit's topic in Nursing Humor

    this one is really nasty. i got a full term fetal demise. diabetic mom non compliant go go dancer, who was given so much education on her one and only visit her chart looked like a book. she never...

14. What Is Your Most Gross, Yucky, Disgusting Nursing Horror Story?

    mari31666 replied to yazisizit's topic in Nursing Humor

    i have always thought this to be an urban legend it's just too horrible. i had a young pt with a breech fetal demise 30 something weeks. the aunt terrified her by telling her about having a breech...

15. What Is Your Most Gross, Yucky, Disgusting Nursing Horror Story?

    mari31666 replied to yazisizit's topic in Nursing Humor

    can't tell you how many times in 1 yr i have been baptized by amniotic fluid and a few times meconium. this is the main reason i dont wear my own scrubs. i usually tell them how i like them but...