Kristin_collegemom

Okay, I was born and raised in Spokane, and moved to TX about 6 years ago. I am now a L&D RN and am trying desperately to talk my husband into moving back to Spokane!!! He's not on board yet, but I am curious about a couple things... First of a...

I agree with the above post... On my unit we give the patient the option to a) stay on with us on L&D, b) go to PP, or c) go to the women's gyn floor. We do what the patient is comfortable with. I too lost a baby (@30 weeks), so I understand b...

No pay difference where I work! RN is RN...

eh... It's not that bad!! I am confident in my exams, and if I am questioning myself I'll have another nurse check behind me... At least I'm not the 1 or 2 dr.'s no one wants to work with! And it's funny that that one dr. who didn't like my exam.....

Yes!! I've only been in L&D about 9 months... and let me just say my hospital has WONDERFUL OB's... but I did have a dr. a few months ago say the same thing that doc said to you.... about 45 minutes later the pt called out and said she was feeli...

I work for an HCA facility in Texas! I work in L&D on days... I work 3 12's with an occasional critical need bonus.... and I LOVE my job! I work with great people and for a great hospital.... I have a 1:1 or 1:2 ratio... and most of my co-wor...

I felt the same way on night shift... I felt like such crap all the time... luckily I got a day position within a month. If it will only be two months maybe until you get a day position, I would try to stick it out - especially since you love the fl...

Ahh... I love when the "dad" comes to the nurses station to ask if we can tell him the day the baby was conceived!!

Sounds like overkill to me.... we chart q 5 min x 20 min after our epidurals... q 5 min x 90 min seems like way too much to me

We have to wear royal blue. They can be any style and can have a different trim color. Basically the only ones I can find are the Urbane Scrubs (royal with lime trim). We are allowed to wear print jackets as long as they go with the royal blue

I am a new L&D nurse and saw somthing today I was very uncomfortable with. Apparently it is something some of the "old school" docs do.... Do any of your MD's still use fundal pressure as a means of delivery? I don't mean asking you for fundal...

No, I've never heard that... but maybe people have never said things like that to me because that is WHY I went to nursing school - to be an L&D nurse. First of all, let me assure you.... L&D nursing IS real nursing. L&D is a critical ...

I am having a hard time remembering actual NANDA dx, but here's my best list for you: risk for infection, acute pain, constipation, risk for urinary retention... I'm sure there are many more that would work!!

We get lots of pts coming in for their "inducement"!! :) But a really good one I have is a direct quote, "Ummm... I was, like, standing in the kitchen, and, ummm, like, I think my mucous plug broke! I was, like, just standing there, and like it sta...

G= 5 pregnancies T=3 term babies P=3 pre-term babies A=1 miscarriage or abortion L= 5 living children I could be wrong, but if you talk it out... she has been pregnant (total) of 5 times and had one abortion. So, out of 5 pregnancies 4 were deliver...

Thanks for the responses. I appreciate it. I really just needed to have some nurses with experience tell me I wasn't wrong for feeling uneasy about it :)

Nothing ever gets turned down in our break room!!

I work in L&D... I had just layed the pt back to do her foley... everything went fine. Sat her back up a little and realized I wasn't tracing her baby anymore... so I grabbed the u/s and started trying to reposition it.... still nothing.... I'm ...

I graduated from an ADN program in Dallas, and I actually don't think they have waiting lists... you just have to reapply every semester.

If I were you, I'd go. I graduated in May, and 95% of my class had jobs by March. In fact one place I put in an application the first week of March and they had already closed the internship positions for that department.

By monday or tuesday you should be able to look on your Board of Nursing website and check if you have a license issued.

We generally stand in front of our moms and hold them by the shoulders, while they hug a pillow. If dad wants to hold her hands thats fine... if he wants to watch the placement of the epidural, he has to sit in a chair.

This may sound weird, but since I'm a new nurse in L&D, I now put a lot of foley's in and I recently discovered I wasn't getting my hand "deep" enough in the labia. I was really trying to be too gentle. I found the best way for me (and this is ...

My orientation was last month we could wear business casual or scrubs... most people chose business casual, but either was fine.

Our school gave us a Meds Pub review... and I went to that, but I didn't take a review I had to pay for.... I just did about 100 practice questions per day for about a month... passed with 75 quetions.