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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 if we can find left over milk for our coffee. i h...

i thought i only heard those kind of things in new york

: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. also don't eat a whole pizza at 3 am and then come to...

When I did orientation 3 yrs ago on L & d I had one great preceptor who I had for the main part. She was patient, kind and very caring. I nominated her that yr for nurse of distinction award and she won. The rest of the nurses were nasty, cru...

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 every c/s (circulator must page them at the start of c...

or more vaginas than a gigilo. i stare at them all night with three or four other people gathered around waiting for IT to happen. marissa -ob/gyn nurse.

i always ask them why if they had this pain for days did they find it necessary to come in via ems at 3 in the damn morning. as well as why would they think that eating an entire pizza/3 happy meals/and 2 day leftover chinese food WOULDN'T give them...

so many of these that i can relate too that i couldn't count them all. lol. it's great to see the humor in things. i will add: if you use unused laps from the broken down c section-to do dishes, clean the toilet, dry up spills. fixed my vintage pur...

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 labor and delivery and we better well damn know how to...

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

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) and stock the rooms on the rare night that it's n...

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 whined a bit. after the 8 hr wait time since patie...

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 gives me nightmares. could be that i had to scrub fo...

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 pt. the couple did not want to see the baby at all....

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 there and she told me 3 or 4 days. she kept trying to...

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 her ears there was no more opening. and every time ...

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 went back for prenatal care. she came in cuz she ...

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 delivery and the head being decapitated and remove...

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 don't need to know them that personally. they will us...

i'm sorry but that is just way to nasty even for the most seasoned nurse.

love hugs and kisses to all. this was the first night i've been off and was able to be awake. damn 12 hr shifts. lol thanks for all the laughs. may our shoes make us walk on clouds

i wonder why that always is? i work in l &d and we always have a crazy busy night. i also work in assisted living with mid-late stage alzheimers and they always seem to refuse meds/strip/wander/cry and act up on the full moon. i used to work fo...

you definitely can do a specialty without med surg experience as had been the rule in days past. i must admit it's difficult being new and doing specialty. and you do get a lot of "med surg" patients in labor and delivery. i've had several pts wit...

i still cry. sometimes it helps the parents/family and sometimes just me or my co-worker, who is crying along side me