PeepnBiscuitsRN

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 non reassuring heart rate and suspected chorio). Bu...

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 commercials like crazy during the day about how a d...

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..." Because postpartum women NEVER cry. THERE'S NO CR...

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...

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 ...

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 ...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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....

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...

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...

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

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...

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! ...

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...

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 short with patients and possibly worse. 2) We're...

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 knowledge don't seem to understand the response of th...

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 she's all striding down the hall being the empowered...

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 matter?

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 shift and I seriously want to throw myself at my supe...

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- perhaps a drug screen for mom is in order and the ba...

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 male resident and the attending (a sharp, no nonsens...