Slow February?

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Anyone else having a slow month? I think we've have about 8 deliveries this month so far and we usually average about 3/day. My 36hours this week consisted of 1 patient..... Don't like to be slammed but how many Lifetime movies can you watch???? LOL.

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Slow February? Not where I live, dahlink.........our OB unit has been hopping lately! In fact, a couple of nights ago they had women laboring in the hall---there literally was no room in the inn!---and we got the overflow on Med/Surg. It was funny watching several experienced M/S nurses running around trying to care for *healthy* post-hysterectomy patients! I was on the OB-GYN floor last night myself, and the babies just kept coming. Maybe it's something in the water??:D

We're expecting that there'll be another baby boom come September, thanks to our spate of uncharacteristically cold, snowy, icy weather in late December and January.;)

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Our OB department is pretty slow too. I work Med-surg, but I usually pick up my overtime in OB. This pay period, no overtime. Oh well, my body and my mind needs a break from that hospital.

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In Nov and Dec we were wondering where all the pts were. We only had about 100 deliveries those months. Apparently, they are all due late Jan/early Feb. :p

We had a bad couple weeks, but they are spacing out a little now and getting back to normal. Hopefully, we won't have a rush though since we have a bunch of antepartums hanging out in L&D, PIH and PTL. We have a 21 weeker with hourglass membranes. :o I hate to see how that one is going to turn out.

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I have been out of commission for 3 weeks now, but in touch with my coworkers and believe me,

Feb is ANYTHING BUT SLOW....

they can't wait for me to get back and share in all the 'fun"...:D

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Our OB department is PACKED!

Add to that, the head of the Ob/Gyn dept is on maternity leave (:D) and one of the docs in the group left about three months ago (returning to his home state of Tx) and has been replaced by a new doc fresh out of residency.

So yea, L&D nurses are going pretty durn nuts at the moment.

Dave

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OMG anything but slow...one of our residents told me that we have "tons" of pts who are due imn Feb; guess I better puton my running shoes.

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We've had a slow Jan/Feb. It looks as if it will pick up in March. I've done a lot of floating out to M/S floor. We went 9 days in Jan without a delivery! I think we are working on 5 days now. Small hospital, about 300/yr. We just had some change with an OB leaving, new one coming. Our manager thinks it's really going to pick up. We hope!

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It's been pretty slow for us.

They have been low voluming staff and actually closed our anti partum unit so we have those patients on L&D too. It's been hard for our PRN people who are used to working full time and for those of us use to overtime. I'm actually thinking of picking up a second job for my spending money.

It got crazy the other day, we had a skeleton crew which was fine because we were slow but we got hammered at 5am and had patients waiting in the hall because we didn't have enough beds. It was pretty tense because anesthesia was also low staffed and then 1 OB had 2 deliveries within 3 min of each other and I was in the OR waiting for her to section my patient for 45 min, which took me off the floor and added to the difficulty on the floor.

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Carla, I'm a student and wondering if you can explain "with hourglass membranes" to me? Just curious!

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Just wondering, what month do ya'll see the most deliveries?

Seem late May, early June are the hot ones around here. And ANY Monday :D

Dave

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