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We draw it at the next 0500 draw following delivery.

We just adopted a policy that OB must be in house. Needless to say we don't do them. Small community hospital here.

When I was in nursing school, my OB rotation didn't phase me. It wasn't my favorite and I didn't have a yearning to be an OB nurse. At the time, nursing jobs were scarce and I just knew I had to take any job offered to me. A few months after passing ...

Transcutaneous bilirubin

I worked for Nurse Family Partnership for 7 years. I was an OB/L&D/Nursery nurse for 4 years prior to that and stayed casual at the hospital while working for NFP. I absolutely loved that job. Like monkeybug, I also took some things home with me....

They just increased our call from 24 to 36 hours in a four week period. Everyone is so burnt out! We are short staffed and frequently have call offs. The call nurse is supposed to just be for c-sections but is so frequently being used for understaffi...

I worked for NFP for 7 years and absolutely loved it! I took quite a pay cut to work for them. I have been an OB/L&D nurse for 16 years. I returned to the hospital because NFP is grant-based and at the time my husband was laid off and I needed th...

Once you are oriented to L&D and scrub/circulate and comfortable with that, you can always orient to post/partum nursery. You should only need a week or two in PP and maybe longer in nursery. 6 months in L&D is a long time for orientation. We...

I was hired into L&D 16 years ago as a new grad into a Level I trauma center. The hospital I currently work in has hired many new grads and just hired 3 new nurses that aren't new grads but are experienced in other areas. I know that our director...

I was hired into L&D 16 years ago as a new grad into a Level I trauma center. The hospital I currently work in has hired many new grads and just hired 3 new nurses that aren't new grads but are experienced in other areas. I know that our director...

We once had a beautiful but nasty female OB. She degraded every nurse every chance she got. One day during a delivery, she decided not to wear a mask because the "VIP" patient's family wanted to videotape the delivery and she wanted to look her best....

We get paid time and a half for the 25th and Jan 1st (only if we work it) but they shorted our schedule by 4 hours those weeks so it wouldn't be any extra pay anyhow.

I don't know what area you are from, but where I'm at, almost all of the new nurses that we have hired only have an ADN. That's what most of the programs are around here. I only have an ADN and have never had a problem getting hired anywhere.

I work on OB at 2 hospitals. Both units are L&D/Postpartum/Nursery. At both, all nurses are crosstrained to work all units. I was hired into L&D 15 years ago with no med-surg experience. We hired 4 new grads several years ago with NO experien...

I've had a recurring dream that I dropped a baby. I work L&D, PP, Nursery.

Job #1: We do approx 100 deliveries/month. Around 3.25/hr for call, required 24hrs call in 4 weeks, Job #2: 200 deliveries/month around $3.00/hr call, required 8 hrs/call in 4 weeks. Neither offer specialty pay.

I have worked a second job at a casual position for 4 years. Our minimum requirement for casual status is 16 hours in a block of time (4 weeks) and 8 hours of call. I have always done at least that amount plus worked many extra hours when they called...

Rescheduling the surgery is not an option. It is not elective. I've already delayed it 4 weeks. Why? I felt I was obligated to work out my schedule so not to put THEM in a bind by calling off. Ironic, huh?

My manager told me I was a very good, reliable employee and she'd be glad to hire me back if a position was available. However, I would lose all the raises I earned in the past 4 years. She also told me FMLA doesn't apply at their hospital since I am...

They tell me no it does not. Casuals have no perks whatsoever. We don't even get premium pay. They just terminated another casual RN because she had surgery as well.

We give our Cytotec either 25mcg in the posterior fornix of the vagina or 50 mcg po. I'm also baffled as to how anyone is crushing it and placing it into the vagina. It's difficult enough to place 1/4 tablet without having it come back out onto your ...

We are considering revising our postpartum pericare instructions for cost effectiveness. Currently we are instructing our patients to do the following: Wet 3 wipes and put antibacterial soap on them, wipe front to back x1 with each, rinse with peribo...

In the labor room: 1. Pitocin 2. Stadol 3. Cytotec 4. Nifedipine 5. Naropin Post partum: 1. Iron 2. Surfak 3. Percocet 4. Ibuprofen 5. Buprenex

I've been an L&D nurse for 14 years and still often seek advice on FHR tracings, exams, etc. Although I do feel confident, I am not arrogant to think that I know everything. It took me about a year to feel somewhat comfortable and by the 3rd ye...