Birthday Nurse

No babies this week, but last week I went OOT (out of town) before I got to talk about the 2 nice deliveries I had one of the nights I went in extra. The first was a C/S that was walking to the back as I came on. I almost feel guilty "claiming" that baby because I hardly even got to say "Hi I'm BDay Nurse" to the mom before the drape goes up and the baby comes out. Then in recovery they are usually so out of it, and after laboring all day, all they want to do is sleep. Doesn't leave much time for the "bonding" time. But nice, quick section. We were actually in the OR from in time to out time less than an hour. That's pretty impressive! It was a one of my favorite CRNA's on too, so that always lends some humor to the situation. I was ready to go home after my section recovery was over and I probably could have, but there were 2 patients who were almost complete so I told them I would stay until both of them delivered so that then they wo...

Ok ...so Tuesday night I learned that I should stand up to doctors when I want something or think something should be done for my patient. Last night I learned that it's probably better to call the doctors TOO often than not enough...and to go with my gut feeling instead of listening to what other people are "suggesting" even if they may have tons more experience and their opinions make you feel better about the situation at the time. My strip turned to @(#^ last night, and after one run-in with the doc earlier in the evening I wasn't too excited about calling her back and asking for her to come back in to assess it. I had one nurse saying "ya...maybe you should call" and another nurse who has worked there WAY longer than any of the rest of us saying "no...it doesn't look that bad. If it was bad you'd be doing something about it not just sitting here watching it." Ok ...so I didn't call 'till the patient was almost complete, then th...

I should be happy that I got a delivery last night, and I should be more excited that I survived the night and went the whole night only have 1 patient at a time (for a total of 2) while everyone else was getting slammed! Walked in and pushed for 45minutes with a patient who was complete and had already been pushing for a while, then took her to the OR and had a baby about 2100. That head was in there all kinds of crooked and all her conehead was off to the side. No wonder she wasn't going anywhere... Came back out to the madhouse after my recovery and then it snowballed. One by one, everyone under the sun came in, and stayed! One walked in at midnight and was 8cm that another nurse took, we all rushed in and got her started, then 10 minutes later another walked in that I took, she was 6cm and ruptured (leaking anyways), we figured we'd have babies flying out every which way! We got them both blocked and comfy in a good time frame, doctors called, orders written, computer cha...

I must have a really, really sensitive conscious. They called me tonight while I was walking through the mall and said they were desperate for help again. I told them no because I've worked every night but Wednesday this week...but then about 20minutes later I called them back and they still hadn't found anybody, so I went in...and just got home about 0830. I'm pooped... Yesterday when I was wishing for babies...I got 2 of them last night. I took a SROM that had been there all afternoon who was still 2-3, she was doing great, I liked them, we were bonding...then another SROM came in and I ended up taking her back for a section partly out of her choice (she was "thinking" about a VBAC ...) and partly because baby looked like poop. So I handed out my first patient to her 4 th nurse of the day and took the new SROM to the OR. I circulated her section, then they called another nurse in and she came in just as the doc was closing the skin. So she finished the recov...