Guest guest Posted March 23, 2000 Report Share Posted March 23, 2000 Our peds shares a M/S floor, too. Not the most ideal of circumstances. But, the census doesn't support a separate floor. Gay Marie Don't curse the darkness...light a candle. ~~Chinese proverb Re: [OBnurses] OB-Peds? > From: Goggie23@... > > small community hospital here too. This is an alternative to having the > pediatric patients on the med-surg floor and closing peds altogether. It's > so hard to work in a small place! Thanks for your quick response tho! S Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest guest Posted March 25, 2000 Report Share Posted March 25, 2000 I used to eork in a Level III doing 5000+ deliveries/ year. We floated between postpartum, high risk, labor and delivery and NICU. You never knew exactly where you were going to be. The reason I left is they started floating between hospitals and it was dangerous! Management didn't see it that way " because the policies are the same " but if you don't know where the OR is, or who the other staff members are, it is dangerous. I could deliver a baby in the middle of the street if I had to, but why? Plat@... wrote: > From: Plat@... > > In a message dated 3/23/2000 1:25:54 AM Central Standard Time, > Goggie23@... writes: > > << I was wondering > if any of you have a " sister unit " and how many that do are aligned with > peds. Our hospital is looking to combine units for staffing purposes and > that would be our choice if we have to do it. >> > , > > Our hospital has " clusters " from which we can expect to float. Our cluster > includes L & D, Mother/Baby, and Pediatrics. NICU and Pedi ICU are also > included, but rarely does anyone float into these units, mostly out to others. > > , TX > > ------------------------------------------------------------------------ > DON'T HATE YOUR RATE! > Get a NextCard Visa, in 30 seconds! Get rates as low as > 0.0% Intro or 9.9% Fixed APR and no hidden fees. > Apply NOW! > http://click./1/2120/7/_/528320/_/953847167/ > ------------------------------------------------------------------------ > > Welcome to the OBnurses list! > You have the freedom to change your membership settings at any time you choose. Go to the Onelist Home Page at www.onelist.com and sign in with your e mail address and the password you used to subscribe to this list. You will then see a list of all Onelist lists you are subscribed to. You can then easily choose the settings you would like--unsubscribe, digest, or Web-only. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest guest Posted March 26, 2000 Report Share Posted March 26, 2000 We sister with Peds and NICU, we have specific as to pull rules, like you only get the feeders and growers in NICU, NO PEDS pts that are " contaminated " , and you have a PEDS or NICU nurse assigned as your buddy while your there. We also do not have to give any meds we aren't comfortable with. Usually when we are pulled or we pull, we give very easy assignments and everyone is very willing to help the person out, so most people dont complain too much. Usually our temp pool is sufficient for our staffing but I think we get pulled about once or twice a year. Jan Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest guest Posted March 26, 2000 Report Share Posted March 26, 2000 Our hospital is much like what Jan just described. We do about 130 deliveries a month, have an 8 (soon to be 16) bed level 2 NICU and a 5 bed (with another 4 in overflow) Peds unit. Our L & D nurses almost never float (we have to be available to circulate our C/S's) but the mother/baby nurses sometimes float to NICU. As with Jan's hospital, they are only given the " grower/feeders " . If Peds gets " bombed " the NICU nurses float there but they do not take RSV or other contaminated cases. Hope this helps with your " research " ! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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