Dang Cord Blood Collection...
The board looked like crap when we came on at 0700...we cleaned it up and actually sent on of the 2 extra nurses home...then we had about 10 patients walk in and there was not ONE EMPTY room when day shift came on. We had put 6 inductions on hold to...oh brother! I wheeled a C/S out of the OR and did about 20minutes of her post-op recovery before they decided they needed me to traige , so I handed my C/S off to a scared- spitless mom/baby nurse who'd never done C/S recoveries before while I went and got N/V chick in a room and an IV started. Things calmed down for a while, then I took a rupture, then while I was getting her blocked in came another girl who according to her doctor was "dying" over the phone, got her blocked, etc, etc. The rest of the night flew! I loved my SROM couple, I wish all women went into labor like that! Her water broke, she came in, was feeling "tightening" but not hurting, decided to just be done with it, got a block before she was ...