PeepnBiscuitsRN

PeepnBiscuitsRN

OB (with a history of cardiac)

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  1. The most ridiculous birth plans you've had the pleasure of reading

    PeepnBiscuitsRN posted a topic in Ob/Gyn

    I don't know when I became so jaded- I had a birth plan with my son...every single thing went the opposite of what we had wanted (induction, ITN with subsequent pukefest and finally stat section for...

  2. The False Advertising of For-Profit Institutions

    PeepnBiscuitsRN posted a topic in General Students

    Correct me if I'm wrong, but a For-Profit educational institution would be a those colleges that aren't a community/Tech college, and not a University/4-year college, right? They're the ones who run...

  3. The dumbest things you've heard from a provider

    PeepnBiscuitsRN posted a topic in Patient, Colleague Relations

    The other afternoon an OB resident came by to check in with a patient, the OB doc seemed very perplexed as to why the patient was crying. "I don't know why she would be crying, that seems strange..."...

  4. Baby Friendly- getting a tad over the top

    PeepnBiscuitsRN posted a topic in Ob/Gyn

    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...

  5. Baby Friendly- getting a tad over the top

    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...

  6. Tired of discrimination

    PeepnBiscuitsRN replied to Al.ginger's topic in Patient, Colleague 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,...

  7. Worst Medication Error of my life

    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...

  8. Patient types on postpartum units

    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 lady partsl birth patients only. At first I was a little skeptical, especially since...

  9. Ever have a patient complain about you?

    PeepnBiscuitsRN replied to love lilacs's topic in Patient, Colleague 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...

  10. O how I long to be a L&D nurse :(

    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...

  11. Advice for L&D? - Male student.

    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...

  12. Specializing as a new nurse??

    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...

  13. Termination, reflection, and moving forward

    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...

  14. Is an OB/GYN RN for me?

    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...

  15. What is so special about working in postpartum???

    PeepnBiscuitsRN replied to BSNbeauty's topic in Ob/Gyn

    Whoops. Just saw you're already in the field. Awesome! Have fun with

  16. What is so special about working in postpartum???

    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...

  17. Vocera or Alternative?

    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...

  18. Family Members/Patients Who Write Down Your Name

    PeepnBiscuitsRN replied to abbaking's topic in Patient, Colleague 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...

  19. I just can't do this anymore...

    PeepnBiscuitsRN replied to ruthiemk's topic in General Nursing

    1) The first time you decided nursing wasn't for you, that should have been it. Nobody else should have pressured you into going back to it. If you're not happy as a nurse, you'll burn out, you'll get...

  20. The dumbest things you've heard from a provider

    PeepnBiscuitsRN replied to PeepnBiscuitsRN's topic in Patient, Colleague Relations

    I was in treatment a couple years back and the nutritionist and therapist I was seeing said that many regular internists just have no clue how to handle eating disorder patients, and for all their...

  21. The dumbest things you've heard from a provider

    PeepnBiscuitsRN replied to PeepnBiscuitsRN's topic in Patient, Colleague Relations

    When I worked on cardiac, I had this 87 year old lady whose ICD was firing (hence her admittance) and she was having repeated runs of VT. So the resident is up there- this hot shot young woman, and...

  22. Vaginal Birth after two consecutive C-Sections

    PeepnBiscuitsRN posted a topic in Ob/Gyn

    I was wondering, do any of your facilities do this? Ours apparently does (which gives me hope with two sections under my belt). Is there any offical stance by ACOG or the like on the

  23. It's Tough Out There!

    PeepnBiscuitsRN replied to Anna Flaxis's topic in General Nursing

    When I was a new grad I took a night shift in cardiac- I'm now evenings in OB and love it to death. I think about how hard it is to find a nursing job, and how insanely lucky I am to be on evening...

  24. You know you've been a nurse too long when...

    PeepnBiscuitsRN replied to wooh's topic in Nursing Humor

    When I watch a movie or tv show in which birth is given and my immediate statement is "Congratulations on the birth of your squeaky clean 4 month old! By the way, that birth was rather precipitous-...

  25. The dumbest things you've heard from a provider

    PeepnBiscuitsRN replied to PeepnBiscuitsRN's topic in Patient, Colleague Relations

    Since we're on a roll here- this is more of what the resident did, versus said. Had a 40 something year old Somali woman who had just had a c/s and was complaining of chest pain. Young, squeaky new...