Working as l/d nurse in denver area-suggestions please!

klone, MSN, RN · Jul 30, 2013

I'm partial to the University Hospital. They do about 4000 deliveries a year, have two L&D units (high risk and low risk), two busy midwifery practices that deliver there, including one which I believe is the only midwifery practice to do hospital waterbirths in the Denver area. Because they have a level 3B NICU (and are across the street from Children's, which has the only NICU in the city that takes higher acuity), they see super high risk women who are often transferred there for care from all over the nation. UCH and Children's has recently started a joint venture called the Colorado Institute for Maternal and Fetal Health which does things like high risk fetal surgeries, sees CDH patients, etc. They're doing some amazing things there.

klone, MSN, RN · Jul 30, 2013

Denver Health is also an excellent health network with a great reputation and pays very well. I just don't have personal experience working in their OB unit. However, I wouldn't hesitate to take a job there. Good Sam is also reported to be very good. I don't know anything about Lutheran, and I would personally not care to work at Rose.

steph21ster · Aug 2, 2013

Thank you for your suggestions!!! Helps a lot! University would be great but don't like the commute time from where we may live! Good to know about denver health too. I just worry about pt loads and being unsafe. I actually heard psl can be bad about this which surprises me!!