Mrs.S

Mrs.S

postpartum, nursery, high risk L&D

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  1. Hypnobirthing?

    Mrs.S replied to Christi321's topic in Ob/Gyn

    no, no, not at all!! i would love taking care of you in labor!! i've only taken care of a few patients who did hypnobirthing but it worked well for them. it's worth learning about, anyhow. it's...

  2. My 2 cents on natural birth/birth plans

    Mrs.S replied to feebebe23's topic in Ob/Gyn

    That is exactly how I feel; I jump at the chance to work with someone with a thought-out birth plan and/or wanting a natural birth, because most of the women I take care of have the same plan you...

  3. Just had a baby on the unit I work on (my thoughts on this...)

    Mrs.S replied to HappyNurse2005's topic in Ob/Gyn

    I delivered on my unit 2 months ago and it was wonderful! I delivered precipitously (also a 10-pound baby!) and one of my dear friends that i work with all the time caught her. I knew there was no...

  4. Annoying Doctor Award

    Mrs.S replied to 33-weeker's topic in Ob/Gyn

    we have an anesthesiologist who is a real weiner like that, trying to tell all the nurses how to do their jobs. not long ago I attended a section delivery as the baby RN, and the kid was breathing...

  5. OB scrub-on call questions?

    Mrs.S replied to feebebe23's topic in Ob/Gyn

    we have always had a surgical tech on the unit 24/7 to scrub for sections (nurses don't scrub) until recently. management felt that there was too much "down time" for our techs so now we are going to...

  6. Any tips for precepting new staff?

    Mrs.S replied to Mrs.S's topic in Ob/Gyn

    There is a preceptor workshop a few times a year; they had one not too long ago and I actually did think about signing up for it for a second or two. then I thought to myself, "they aren't going to...

  7. Any tips for precepting new staff?

    Mrs.S posted a topic in Ob/Gyn

    Hello, My manager approached me the other day and asked if I would precept one of our new nurses. I was totally jazzed about it at first but the more I think about it the more apprehensive I am...

  8. Any tips for precepting new staff?

    Mrs.S replied to Mrs.S's topic in Ob/Gyn

    thank you SO much, that does help a

  9. How long to wait for Madame Placenta??

    Mrs.S replied to Elvish's topic in Ob/Gyn

    me too, if only I weren't so

  10. How long to wait for Madame Placenta??

    Mrs.S replied to Elvish's topic in Ob/Gyn

    this is the part that always makes me want to barf

  11. Do your OBs underestimate EBLs?

    Mrs.S replied to Elvish's topic in Ob/Gyn

    ooo, we have a guy like that. he always goes higher or lower than what the nurse says, depending on his mood or his "agenda"

  12. Calling the OB for decels..

    Mrs.S replied to nurse79's topic in Ob/Gyn

    nope, it's still a late. that's how I'd chart it anyway. but like everyone else has said, look at the whole picture. if everything else looks good and it's not a pattern of lates it doesn't mean...

  13. Why do nurses eat their young?

    Mrs.S replied to cinthern's topic in Ob/Gyn

    I guess I didn't get that from any of her posts, that she was making broad generalizations about the entire profession. It's not like she titled the thread "Why are all experienced nurses a bunch of...

  14. Home birth vs. hospital

    Mrs.S replied to rnmi2004's topic in Ob/Gyn

    If I wasn't an L&D nurse I would definitely go for a home birth, if I could find a midwife I trusted. With my second birth, driving to the hospital in transition was by far the worst part of the...

  15. does the FOB really get cursed out????

    Mrs.S replied to RNDreamer's topic in Ob/Gyn

    In four years I've never heard the FOB be cursed out. But if I had a buck for every time I heard a woman say "I'm never doing this again" I could totally

  16. Why do nurses eat their young?

    Mrs.S replied to cinthern's topic in Ob/Gyn

    Experienced nurses ARE mean to new nurses sometimes; I don't see anything wrong with venting about that. I've seen new nurses where I work become targets of unfair criticism and have heard the more...

  17. Home birth vs. hospital

    Mrs.S replied to rnmi2004's topic in Ob/Gyn

    I find this 66% statistic hard to believe too; we are constantly hearing from our management how our unit does not make the hospital any money & that's why they don't want to spend money on...

  18. EFM - the research & the realities

    Mrs.S replied to kathiecnm's topic in Ob/Gyn

    1. level II doing 1500/year 2. yes 3. no 4. yes 5. not yet, but I hear it's coming 6. everyone gets an NST on admission, after that we can do intermittent auscultation for low-risk labor...

  19. Can't mix drugs??

    Mrs.S replied to shortstuff31117's topic in Ob/Gyn

    the only time we can mix drugs where I work is at delivery; we can add 20units of Pit to current IV solution per MD verbal order. It is kind of a pain not to be able to mix stuff in other instances...

  20. What's your experience with doulas?

    Mrs.S replied to EnergeticRN's topic in Ob/Gyn

    Oh my gosh, I love this post! You said it so well!! I wish the OB's would be more honest about epidurals instead of letting patients believe they are all wonderful and the pt can get one whenever...

  21. Do you round up when weighing babies???

    Mrs.S replied to LizzyL&DRN's topic in Ob/Gyn

    for documenting purposes we use grams. I tell the parents the exact weight in lbs and oz and then they can round up or down or whatever they

  22. Pitocin induction-pit rates

    Mrs.S replied to HappyNurse2005's topic in Ob/Gyn

    we have a couple different protocols that the docs pick from. the vast majority of the time it's start at 2 and up by 2 every 15 minutes. one doc likes to do this one that starts at 6, up by 6 every...

  23. Pitocin question

    Mrs.S replied to BirthingBabies's topic in Ob/Gyn

    our standing orders have us increase to 28mu/min but occasionally I have seen docs write an order to increase up to 42. But like everyone else here has said, that much more Pit doesn't really seem to...

  24. HELP!!! Ob OR Standards

    Mrs.S replied to Chrissy24RN's topic in Ob/Gyn

    our orientation to circulating for c/sections went like this too. I also told our educator I didn't think this was adequate training, but apparently I am the only

  25. Tell me about NRP certification

    Mrs.S replied to Clarise's topic in Ob/Gyn

    I don't think it would hurt to get your NRP certification. Yes the material might make more sense to you once you are working, but that doesn't mean you won't "get it" or will have to retake it. In...