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STABLE exam

Help! I have been a nurse for 25 yrs. L/D for 15 and I have HAD IT!! I am at the end of my rope and ready to quit! I need advise from L/D nurses. Now they are making us take the STABLE exam, along w. NRP, ACLS, Adv. Fetal Monitoring I can't take it anymore. I am able to resuc. a baby and stabilize until the NICU arrives ( @ 1-2 min). Now I need to know about a 6 wk old baby readmitted w. RSV?? or Coarctacion (SP) of the Aorta?? WHY?? I don't want to know how to take care of babies older than a few hours. That's why I do L/D and they do NICU. I work for a large hosp. FOR PROFIT corp. where the bottom line is not pt. care it is $$$. The more "certified' and "tested" we are the more money they get from the insurance co.'s. I have had it... I just want to take care of women having a baby, not be strapped to a computer charting more than any other dept. in the hosp. Please is anyone else, who does not rotate between dept.s', required to take STABLE? I can't forsee EVER needing it unless we have a major disaster and then I'm sure there will be 1or 2 NICU nurses floating around. I want to add I am well liked and respected by my peers and the MD's I work with. I am a preceptor and have trained over 8 nurses in the 5 yrs. I have been w. my present job. I love L/D, not all this other B**S. Please advise...

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Hey, Med/Surg nurse here...please don't spend your time trying to pay us back for those insipid skills fairs. I'm sorry you have to do the hospital wide one...but WE don't make those rules!:o (A very dear friend of mine is an OB nurse and I hear about this every year from her!)

I think your time would be better spent getting back at the suits!!! Can I help?;)

For what it's worth, STABLE is a one day class. It was very informative. The book you get is great. Of course, I am a nursery nurse, so it was more suited to my specialty. I do agree with the other poster who mentioned that it will look good on a resume. In any case, I can also understand your frustration.

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