DWelly14

Yep! I'm a CNM and had a patient recently that one of the other midwives in my practice had admitted for a therapeutic rest the day before. She was 37 weeks, and had only begun care with us at 34 weeks. According to her, she was induced at 37 weeks a...

I work L&D now and if that's your end goal, I'd encourage you to go for it. At least where I work, everyone takes great care of or pregnant coworkers so you should be fine working L&D while pregnant, as much as you would be anywhere!

This happened to me with grad school. Applied to three schools, got in to all three but number one choice didn't get back to me until I had already accepted my seat in my second choice program. Main thing is being polite. Write a concise email or let...

I hear you. Precpeting is hard and thankless. I think it's definitely reasonable to ask for a break. And s to all f you saying that OP needs to suck it up because there's always work that no one wants to do, come on. Yes, that's true but she absolu...

So I need help. I've been a nurse for 6 years now. I have a BSN & an MSN and am also a CNM. I've worked 4 years in critical care and the past two years in labor and deliver at a large suburban hospital. I've precepted several students and have al...

I did have discussions with her along those lines throughout and the faculty was being kept up to date about what was going on. I feel like you keep choosing not to see this because it doesn't support your theory. Not sure why you consider me an ine...

-OP, given that Alice was likely your 3rd or 4th preceptee, I and a few other saw immediately to question your communication skills and leadership abilities. I'll elaborate as I go. Not sure why you immediately question my leadership skills but ok .....

For all of you suggesting she wasn't interested in L&D, you are incorrect. She chose L&D and wanted to be hired on our floor after this rotation. I am a new grad CNM and am finishing my time as a bedside L&D RN, she is not being asked to...

I guess I don't understand what you are saying at all. No patients have been harmed. I have made sure of this. My student is just not performing and needs to be failed. I'm having a hard time with this because it is never easy telling someone that th...

The school I'm working with it is my call to make as her instructor is not with her during this rotation. I am. I evaluate her and ultimately make the call as to whether she met the criteria to pass her clinical portion of her capstone. She can absol...

Expectations have been discussed multiple times with her. The biggest issue is that she just laughs it off when you call her out on disappearing. So I'm walking in to go push with the patient and I saw her in an empty room opening a can of bleach wip...

Why do I need to be evaluated? I tried to give her the benefit of the doubt and be a good preceptor. I'm not her school. I'm not her program. I bent over backwards teaching her. I know I have to fail her but I know it's going to suck. Thanks making m...

I do highly recommend getting the bedside experience .... it's invaluable down the line. It's what makes NPs different from PAs is our time spent at the bedside. If you are set on not getting the bedside experience, perhaps look at going the PA route...

Yep, when interviewing for my current job, I asked what the weekend commitment was because my husband works weekdays so I wanted to know how much time we'd get together. I was going to take the job no matter what because it was a perfect fit for me a...

I've been on both sides. On the patient side. My father in law had a brain aneurysm rupture and spent 2 months in ICU after. My mother-in-law stayed with him the whole time as he was mostly out but randomly he'd have lucid moments and would be terrif...

Labor & delivery nurse here ... I know it's going to be a crazy night when it's raining and it's a full moon and I walk in and triage is full with more patient's being seen in our NST room and the waiting room is full ... sounds like a night wher...

Oh Lord, that's the last thing we need to put on nurses! Most of this has already been said but how many nurses work 12 hour night shifts, eat whatever they can during their shifts if they get to eat at all, no breaks, not enough rest, and have respo...

At my hospital, nurses can get in big trouble if they are found sleeping on their breaks.

If you cannot safely care for your patients you should call in. However, you need to plan ahead for the future. Did you make a trade that put your schedule like this? Probably should make trades like that again. Does your schedule require you to swit...

My biggest pet peeve is patients (or more often family members) who treat me like a waitress or a babysitter. I work in labor and delivery and all too often I'm admitting an uncomfortable patient who wants an epidural (which means I need to start an ...

This scares me ... my husband was just recently in the ER with kidney stones. Listening to him talk, all my nursing instincts were telling me that he sounded like a drug seeker (they gave him toradol and he immediate demanded something more because i...

Nurse to nurse report is always better than "check the chart." All nurses try to keep up to date to our chatting but we all know how easy it is to get behind. If I only rely on charting that could be even an hour behind could e life changing. Taking ...

First, I want to add this article to the discuss. It's ACNM's response to the CDC study about home births having 4x higher infant mortality rate than hospital births and includes some good points. http://www.midwife.org/acnm/files/ccLibraryFiles/File...

The Army does still use nurse midwives. I graduated with two amazing CNMs who both are now employed through the Army.

Also to weigh in on the discussion in the comments, there are many different paths to becoming a midwife. There's certified nurse midwives (like myself) who have a bachelor's and master's both in nursing with a focus on midwifery for their masters. T...