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I thought if you failed 3 times you were ineligible to sit for the NCLEX again without remediation. You can try to take it for another state but you graduated in Florida and the school still has to be notified when you apply. Sounds like you are trying to get around the rules. Pretty unethical way to start your career. Also if you failed 3 times, I'm sorry but you NEED remediation.

After you said no, he called your work and continues to call despite being told (I assume) you aren't interested. This type of control to get what he wants can be an early sign of an abuser. Tell management so you don't get in trouble for having "too many phone calls" and tell them to no longer pass him through! Give a specific extension to family for emergency calls. Take it from a woman who thought he will never hit me and then had to spend 2 years trying to get out of hell

It wasnt really a choice (I guess as long as it wasnt on floor qualifies but felt that was too broad) if it is dropped on pt or bed I give it. But thats about it.

Ldrp only one unit. There are a few pp only nurses and a few nursery only nurses from when they first opened but now everyone hired needs to be able to do everything. You might be ld, pp, or nursery at any given time. Although TYPICALLY one nurse is assigned to catch baby if it is busy everyone miat pitch in. Yep catch a baby when you have 3 couplets. But the mom and baby are rarely seperated (circs, procedures, and nightly weights only) and they are trying to limit that but we only have 4 scales for 50 room so it is easier to do it in a central location. Baths are done in pt room under warmer whenever as long as not on blood sugars and the baby must have successfully fed at least 2 times. I like it this way a lot better. Mom stays in same room whole time. We might labor and keep her. Or give her to pp nurse and get another labor. It is super easy because we are one floor, one unit (although we are an entire hospital floor lol) and so there isn't a whole lot of conflict amongst labor and pp that I experienced in hospitals where they were different separate units.

Well you posted a while ago how did it go. It is weird the first thing that tell you is how much you make but... How was it?

Keep at it. It is hard. I had a fellow nurse (experienced in midwife school) in triage rush a pt to a room and called for a setup because the pt was complete. Dr comes in and she was 5. 100% effaced and far back up cervix. Low head felt like a bulging bag. Even the Dr said he thought she was complete at first. Ive called them 8-9 and another nurse says 7. Whatever. Keep trying and busy or not if you are unsure ask for back up. After a while you will get it. No one is an expert in a minute.

Apply. Prepare for the interview. Most places do the behavior questions "tell me about a time you had a conflict and how you would handle it differently now" so knowing everything l&d doesn't really help. My experience only: NICU is the hardest specialty to get in followed by l&d. Postpartum in many hospitals are totally separate and they don't EVER float to ld ever but might go to nicu for feeder growers. Some places ld nurses don't EVER float to postpartum. Where I work now we do ldrp and so they want everyone hired to be able to do labor AND postpartum. Nicu totally separate and we don't EVER float to it nor them to us. So it is important to know what you want to do and what the specifications are where you apply because it is a little different than med surg where you could float anywhere. Once you decide research a little about what you will do, but of course you won't "really" know and the managers know this. My hospital does an internship for non experienced in labor so look around for that. Honestly though, any specialty is difficult to get into without experience (how do you get it then??) so just be persistent. Good luck.

I did. I hated the OR. They have an internship at my hospital for non experienced in labor. The OR in l&d is different too but since we only do a few types of surgeries very few of the nurses worked OR prior. I would talk to HR if that is the reason they gave you for not hiring you because that seems a littllllle immoral if not illegal. Denying you a job not to hurt the managers feelings? What?? Look at other hospitals if that is the case. The ORs are closed in my unit (no floating in or out of our unit) and the specialty is different. Sorry they wouldn't give you a chance.

Totally agree about working in l&d first. Grad school will be most impressed by your GPA and your experience more so than you shadowing anyone during undergrad. Besides. I thought I would love labor and wanted to be a CNM. But honestly now having been in it for a while- I don't love it and can't imagine doing it for a long time. Remember CNM are on call and may be awake working for 24 hours while still being responsible for 2 lives (one you can't "see") try it before you buy it!

An epidural is a pain intervention. While most women do end up getting one, it is entirely individual as to when you get it. At my facility as long as you can sit still for it you can get it whenever- even at 10 cm. Though at that point it is usually better just to push through the pain since it can take 15 mins to get the epidural in and another 20 to 30 for it to be effective. Move as much as possible. I love the epidural as I hate to see my patients suffering but honestly movement is the best method to move labor along and that can't be done as effectively with epidural. Good luck. Baby comes as baby comes. Educate yourself but don't go in with clear cut expectations because every birth is different. C sections happen for many reasons (baby in distress, failure to vertically progress, failure for fetal descent) healthy baby is the best goal. And ask your nurse whenever you have a question. That is why she is there.

Bunch of comments I dont have time to go thru. But I would seriously suggest you get some kind of therapy for your low self esteem. It doesn't matter where you work, people will see you and it sounds like you need some way to deal with how badly you feel about yourself.

Ok wait..... You are newly licensed in a different state as an RN and working in another state as a CNA? I am unclear why your boss would need to fire you if you are not licensed as an RN in the state in which you are working. Tell your boss but ask to see the policy or call HR. I actually know many nurses who work the last few weeks as a CNA before their residency starts. They used to do GN orientation but that isn't common anymore. However your case is different anyway in that if you are not licensed in that state anyway. Talk to your boss that is the best thing.

Several years ago I worked in an LTC ( I was the only RN at the time). Resident slumped over in wheelchair, slurred speech. Called EMS (we used a service, so it wasn't 911) and told them I thought he was having a stroke and needed to go to the hospital. One of them told me it didn't look like a stroke. They still HAVE to take him because it is LTC not assisted living and they don't have family to take them, the nurses in the LTC can't take them, ect. So anyway long story short. The resident never came back. Because he died that night. In the ER. From a stroke.

I don't work or even live in Texas, so that might be the best hospital and area of the country. I don't know. What I do know is that, no this isn't a once in a lifetime opportunity. Lots of hospitals don't require that experience. Look around.

Our hospitals have 3 ORs on our LDRP unit (main OR is directly downstairs) and we only do surgeries on pt's on our unit. I imagine they COULD do other surgeries but we are a closed unit for LDRP. I think the main issue would be where and who would recover these pt's outside of the OR. As L&D nurses we recover our own sections, BTL, and D&C's with the vast majority being short surgeries with spinal anesthesia. A person who undergoes a more invasive long surgery with general anesthesia could be potentially harmed during recovery by a nurse not trained to do real post-op recovery. I know I wouldn't want to do it and I have both worked in the Main OR, pre-op holding, and as LDRP. Additionally, would these other surgeries put a burden on availability of staffing and/or the OR for a section in the event of an emergency, such as cord prolapse?