Jessica76

I currently do 3 12hr night shifts. For nights, I prefer it. Less days to have to mess up your sleep schedule. That said, I'm going to days in a couple of weeks. I have to do 12hr shifts when i go to days until some people get off medical leaves, then I might go to 2 12s and 1 8hr shift one week and 2 12s and 2 8s the next week to make up my .9FTE. The only thing I'm not looking forward to with the 12 day shifts are that I won't see my kids for very long when I get home since they'll be going to bed shortly after I get home. BUT, I AM looking forward to sleeping at night every single night and not feel tired all the time :)

in normal pts, I just take it when they're sitting in the bed. If it's elevated, I will tilt them off their back and retake it. If it's better when they are off their back, I'll just let the physician know, hey, the BP was this on her back, on her side it was this. For PIH pts, I'll usually just take it however she happens to be lying. I had a PIH induction the other night and the MD said to call if it's above a certain number on her side.

We have two LPNs on our LDRP unit. One has been there a very long time and she only does postpartum. She also is a scrub nurse so we use her for c/s's also. Another one was one of our tech's and she went to school to get her LPN and now is in school for her RN. That's the only way she could stay as an LPN was if she was in school for RN.

We mix our own pit, 10u pitocin in a 500cc bag of D5. Our Mag comes premixed from the pharmacy, 40g in a 1000cc bag of H20. We bolus anywhere from 4-6 gram load, then usually start out at 2g/hr.