PeepnBiscuitsRN replied to PeepnBiscuitsRN's topic in Ob/Gyn
My whole thing is that we serve many cultures who, no matter how many times you try to convince them that they DO have milk, and the baby is getting colostrum, too, they refuse to believe it. Even if you teach them to hand express they don't beleive ...
My hospital is working toward becoming baby friendly. This entails that we promote rooming-in and breastfeeding, which I have no problem at all with- what I do have a problem with is how we are being presented with it- and how we must now interact wi...
PeepnBiscuitsRN replied to Al.ginger's topic in Relations
You're in MN? I'm in MN and where I'm at is a VERY racially and culturally diverse place. We have on the unit I work at: Hispanic nurses, Hmong Nurses, Somail Nurses Ethiopian Nurses, African Nurses, African American nurses and we're all treated the ...
PeepnBiscuitsRN replied to xaf7232's topic in Cardiac
I found that the one time I had a student with me, I felt totally discombobulated. I forgot stuff, I fumbled with stuff- and I work on an OB floor so we're not passing a lot of hard core stuff too often. I don't know, maybe you've oriented people bef...
PeepnBiscuitsRN replied to KKRJJ's topic in Ob/Gyn
We're a closed unit, but we have an overflow unit that's on cardiac- a wing of that unit is reserved for low-risk vaginal birth patients only. At first I was a little skeptical, especially since this was the unit I came from and we saw a lot of stuff...
PeepnBiscuitsRN replied to love lilacs's topic in Relations
I had a patient recently probably complain about me. Why? Well, see she was nice as could be all shift long but at 11:20pm she put her light on. Where was I? In report, talking to the night nurse who would be taking care of her next. Well...I get out...
PeepnBiscuitsRN replied to LH...RN's topic in Ob/Gyn
It could work in your favor to work in a hospital first, because you could then transfer from whatever unit you start on to OB. That said, it might take more time for you to get hired in OB, firstly because if you got hired on say, cardiac or ortho o...
PeepnBiscuitsRN replied to StudentOfHealing's topic in Ob/Gyn
It is weird that someone would turn down a male student but not a male OB doc. I think culture would play a big part- I had a male student shadow me one day and we have a pretty diverse cultural spread- there are a couple of particular groups where i...
PeepnBiscuitsRN replied to nurse5913's topic in Ob/Gyn
I'm glad for the year or so I had in cardiac and med surg- taught me the fine art of time management and really broke me in. That said, however, I'd have taken a position in L&D or Mom/Baby in a heartbeat if it were offered right out of the gate....
PeepnBiscuitsRN replied to TrixieRN1's topic in General Nursing
The otoscope thing sounds just silly. When I was an LPN I looked in ears and in throats and noses with an otoscope! The NP I worked under expected me to take the initiative and do those things. As for ambulating high fall risk patients? Happens every...
PeepnBiscuitsRN replied to narainalina's topic in Ob/Gyn
I'd say keep your mind open to everything. Consider your clinicals like a buffet, sample each thing and expect to change your mind, even if you don't think you will. I went into RN school as an LPN working in pediatrics, convinced I'd be working in p...
PeepnBiscuitsRN replied to BSNbeauty's topic in Ob/Gyn
You already said it- there's very little turnover. I work with some nurses who have worked in the birth center for going on 36 years now. It's their niche too. Though I wonder- and please don't take this wrong, how one can say that any field is thei...
PeepnBiscuitsRN replied to mommy2boysaz's topic in Ob/Gyn
We have Vocera, and it's become a point of amusement to see how long it takes before the stupid "genie" recognizes our name so we can log in. The other night a gal with a pretty simple, common name had to try about 9 times before it recognized her! ...
PeepnBiscuitsRN replied to abbaking's topic in Relations
Yeah, I've had new parents who write down the name of each nurse they have for each shift of the days they spend there. It can be a good thing (when the few kindly souls write a thank you note and mention each nurse by name that they had) and then th...
