Guest guest Posted August 21, 2008 Report Share Posted August 21, 2008 I have a question about "high volume" delivery units. I work at a small hospital and we do a fairly low number of deliveries about 50-60 per month give or take BUT we also 3 RNs during the day and 2 with one on call evenings and nights to do all deliveries, c/s, recovery and triages (which can be 10 per shift)....so does it really make a difference if you are at a hospital that does 50 deliveries per day with 25 nurses and separate triage area. I worked perdiem at another hospital that had about 15 deliveries per day shift and I did 1:1 all the time so was less worked then my full time job....so the question what really is high volume? It's only a deal if it's where you want to go. Find your travel deal here. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest guest Posted August 22, 2008 Report Share Posted August 22, 2008 I work at a hospital that has a high volume of deliveries, but I think the difference is most high volume units also have MFM and NICU's, so their patients can be sicker and have more problems. So you get a lot of experience in nursing not only the normal laboring mother, but also the abnormal and the very sick laboring mother. So while the volume can be really high the experience comes in the high volume of higher acuity patients. ---- cassioo@... wrote: > > I have a question about " high volume " delivery units. I work at a small > hospital and we do a fairly low number of deliveries about 50-60 per month give > or take BUT we also 3 RNs during the day and 2 with one on call evenings and > nights to do all deliveries, c/s, recovery and triages (which can be 10 per > shift)....so does it really make a difference if you are at a hospital that > does 50 deliveries per day with 25 nurses and separate triage area. I worked > perdiem at another hospital that had about 15 deliveries per day shift and I > did 1:1 all the time so was less worked then my full time job....so the > question what really is high volume? > > > > > **************It's only a deal if it's where you want to go. Find your travel > deal here. > (http://information.travel.aol.com/deals?ncid=aoltrv00050000000047) Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest guest Posted August 22, 2008 Report Share Posted August 22, 2008 I work at a hospital that has a high volume of deliveries, but I think the difference is most high volume units also have MFM and NICU's, so their patients can be sicker and have more problems. So you get a lot of experience in nursing not only the normal laboring mother, but also the abnormal and the very sick laboring mother. So while the volume can be really high the experience comes in the high volume of higher acuity patients. ---- cassioo@... wrote: > > I have a question about " high volume " delivery units. I work at a small > hospital and we do a fairly low number of deliveries about 50-60 per month give > or take BUT we also 3 RNs during the day and 2 with one on call evenings and > nights to do all deliveries, c/s, recovery and triages (which can be 10 per > shift)....so does it really make a difference if you are at a hospital that > does 50 deliveries per day with 25 nurses and separate triage area. I worked > perdiem at another hospital that had about 15 deliveries per day shift and I > did 1:1 all the time so was less worked then my full time job....so the > question what really is high volume? > > > > > **************It's only a deal if it's where you want to go. Find your travel > deal here. > (http://information.travel.aol.com/deals?ncid=aoltrv00050000000047) Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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