MBarth

I'd check with an attorney - but I believe that if an employer requires staff attendance at a meeting at work, then salaried employees have to be paid for it. Can't have it both ways -- either require and pay - or don't pay/don't require.

The saying when I was a younger nurse: 'Jesus doesn't have a sister.' Translation: We ALL make med errors none of us are perfect. If a nurse tells you they never have ---either they're lying or they've never cared for patients - so never had the opportunity to make an error. A mistake is a chance to learn, so that you don't make a mistake again. You should not be reprimanded, chastised, blamed --- the error is not YOUR error: it is a system error. How can the system be improved so that error can't be made by anyone else? And honestly - if this upcoming meeting is not pleasant and nice -- I would find a better place to work. You should never have been treated like you were. Does your institution support the 'Blame free culture' that the Joint Commission promotes? Doesn't sound like it. I'd find a place that does.

Put everything into an electronic file - and then save that file in one of the many 'clouds' that are available - from Dropbox to OneDrive to Apple's cloud. Files stored there are backed up, so the chances of losing your paper is slim and none. Buy/subscribe to one of the applications that works with MS Word and formats your papers in APA for you. It saves you so much time!!!!

I was a L&D nurse for more than 20 years. I disagree with your statement: 'only familiar with L&D'. Pregnant women can - and do - have all the problems that non-pregnant women have -- but they've added the risk of being pregnant to their medical or surgical issues. I had pregnant patients with pancreatic cancer, traumatic injuries from accidents, blood sugar problems, bad infections, cardiac issues (one patient had transposition of the great vessels -- and didn't know it! She didn't understand why we were really concerned!!!) The list goes on. While I spent much of my career providing direct patient care in a perinatal center, I spent 10 years prior to that in a community hospital -- and even though we transferred patients with these issues to the perinatal center -- we had to care for them until the transport team got there. (This was the process in the state I practiced in.) And -- if the ER had a pregnant women walk - or get moved into - their ER --- they wasted no time calling L&D or just bringing the patient up to L&D -- regardless of the patient's problem. Pregnant = L&D. So --- I think L&D is the place -- and especially looking at your pro's/con's ---- I think you've answered your own question.