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- เผยแพร่เมื่อ 29 พ.ค. 2024
- *Disclaimer* The patient in the scenario was NOT real and COMPLETELY made up for educational purposes. Also all footage was taken during scheduled breaks and off the clock.
Welcome back to another vlog!!! Today I am taking care of my postpartum mommas and babies and wanted you guys to have a glimpse of what postpartum nurses do! Don't forget to subscribe and like this video love you guys xo ❤️
Who am I? 🩺
Hi everyone! If you are new here my name is Romi and I am a Registered Nurse (RN) with a Bachelors in Nursing (BSN). I work on an OB/GYN floor that specializes in high risk antepartum, postpartum, women’s oncology/gynecology, and pre- and post-op. I am also cross trained to float to Labor and Delivery to help momma’s deliver their bundles of joy!
I am also a first-year medical student (MS1). Thank you for following along my journey and please don’t forget to subscribe to join the family and support my channel!
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This is what I expect when I see someone posted a nurse day in my life. Thank you!
yayyy I'm happy you enjoyed!!❤️
Totally agree!!
this fake patient scenario is genius for new grads and people interested in L&D. Awesome concept!
Whoohoo I’m so happy to hear that!!😍
Yessss!!! Loved it!!
I am very interested in L&D :) just started the path to go into Nursing 🤍
Hi romi my wife is at end of her 1 trimester of pregnancy so do you have any advice for me
I start my first day tomorrow starting in postpartum and i agree this is very helpful, thank you!!
I had my first baby a year ago via c-section and having great nurses makes everything so much better. Thank you for what you do!
thank you! and Congratulations to you mama!! ❤️
What kind of things did night shift nurses teach you?
Going into labor at 24 weeks with a history of pulmonary embolism and previous high risk pregnancy, i felt so comfortable being at the hospital during pre and post partum, the nurses and drs were so kind, gentle, thoughtful. So very understanding, they were amazing! I hadn’t shaved in weeks, hadn’t showered in days, was leaking fluid for 4 days and i was practically nude and had my private parts looked at to insure no infection and i never felt discouraged or disrespected. I said in the beginning “do whatever you need to do to keep me alive/healthy” they were so kind ! So thank you for what you do ! I wasn’t a patient of yours lol but thank you for the care you provide the patients !!! Means so much
I'm so happy you had a great experience!! Congratulations momma ❤️
Loved the patient example !
I'm glad I got to show you a typical postpartum patient example!
I’m a CNA in an L&D unit, that report sheet explanation helped me understand so much!! Always hearing nurses talk about GBS and never thought to look it up so thank you! 😄 Once I finish nursing school I hope to stay In the mother/baby unit 🙏🏽
ahh love this I'm so happy it helped! I'm making a video on a few patient scenarios in L&D, antepartum, etc. to help out even more ❤️
good luck in school babe!!
How are you alexa
*saves this video for when I get to the women’s health / pregnancy part of nurse school*
stay tuned for more women's health patient scenarios/report sheets 😊
I love your video, you really show all you do in the job, thank you
your little paper seems so organized i love it!
Thank you somich for this such an in depth day in the life of a nurse ❤❤❤
Hi Romi! Thank you for this video. I enjoyed watching every minute of it!
thanks love xo ❤️
How are you rach
Can’t wait to graduate school striving for either peds unit or L&D PP 🙌💪🏽🙌 great blog you’ll be a great clinical instructor
New Sub here! I love how through this day in a life is! Great content! 💜just starting my requisites for nursing school! 🙏🏾
Please make more videos like this, super informational 🙏🏻💞
love this so much!! i want to do this when i’m older and i have been looking for a good video of it! this is definitely the best! thank you for sharing🥰
aww im glad you got to see a little of what goes on 😊
Hi romi . Thnku for sharing with vedio i m also a staff nurse and my duty in nicu . I really enjoyed this vedio
Great vlog as always and love how you explained everything including all the items that you needed for the mom and the baby👍🏾👏🏾🤗❤️🥰
ahh thank you girl I'm so happy you enjoyed ❤️
What a wonderful confident young nurse you are! ❤
thank you that means so much!!
This is the most informative nurse day in the life video I’ve ever watched!! 💗
Aww so happy to hear that 💕💕
Thank u so much for the handover. It helps heaps!
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I’m really stuck between this or NICU nursing, I apply to college in two months, definitely on the struggle bus rn and watching these videos help
no worries! you pick your specialty after nursing school, you'll get lots of rotations and classes in by then so by the time you graduate you'll have a better picture of what you want to apply for.
this video was nothing but helpful! thank you so much ❤️
aw yay I'm glad it helped 😊
I work in Med Surg adult as a CNA and plan to go back to nursing school. This is a whole another field and im glad i saw this video🤗 i am interested in pediatrics
This was a really good vlog 🥰 i loved it
thank you!! 😊
This is exactly what i wanna do. I'm so excited
My sister recently gave birth and she wanted to bottle feed and the hospital made her breast feed and that made her feel worse because the baby wasn’t latching well until this one nice nurse helped out a lot and gave her some donated breast milk! Thank you for what u do💜
I'm glad she helped out mom and baby ❤️ thank you!!!
The hospital can’t MAKE you breastfeed. They can encourage it . Your sister probably was encouraged by a nurse who was too pushy and she felt like she couldn’t say no that’s not what I want for my baby. The hospital can’t make you do anything you don’t want to do. Even life saving treatment.
@@isis_nailedit7094 this ^^^ when my mommas don’t want to breastfeed, I will never push them. It’s their choice and baby is healthy either way!
@@Romi_joy what are some of the benefits of breast milk vs formula? Are there any benefits of one vs the other?
Aw I love babies this is so cute! I hope to work in this unit as a RN after school
ahh yes you will get to do lots of baby holding and feeding on postpartum 😊
Very realistic vlog . The best I have seen. Thank you!!
aww thank you so much!!!
Great video! Thank you for all that you do! 🥰
I'm glad you enjoyed it 💕
How are you
I loved the video idea!! Omg please do more videos with fake patients but with different scenarios 💕💕💕
Thank you all you do my nurses were amazing took great care of me
I'm so happy to hear that 😊
This video was great! I'm a medsurg nurse trying to go to mother baby and this video was so informative for me! Thank you!
Glad it was helpful!
Love these kind of video's!! ❤️
Thanks love ❤️
Thanks for the vid ! My mom was a surgical nurse for 38 years !!! Much love and respect for all you guys do !!!
thank you to your mom for her service!! ❤️
How are you lea
love what you did with the notes u showed us.. cant wait to get into L and D if not postpartum as a new graduate.
I can do an L&D one too in a future video 💖 glad you enjoyed!!
@@Romi_joy that would great! ... thank you
Amazing vlog!!
Due with my 2nd this Sept (2021) NGL I liked my hospital stay with my first able to just lay up and nor worry about anything. Hope it goes smoothly again.
congratulations in advance momma and hope everything is smooth and wonderful 🙏
Hi Romi! New subbie here! This was a great idea and it’s giving me a thought about PP! Thanks so much!
So helpful!
I'm interested in being a postpartum nurse. I've thought about going for labor and delivery nurse and also a nicu nurse, but I feel like a postpartum nurse would be less stressful. Any nurses or anyone with knowledge, please correct me if I'm wrong
all units no matter where you work can be very stressful! it just depends on what level of stress you are comfortable with. For example, in ER there are emergencies left and right and nurses running codes. Some people love that level of stress and thrive in that environment. In postpartum, things can go wrong where moms can hemorrhage or bleed alot, or something goes wrong with the baby (less likely than something happening to mom but still happens). Wherever you go you will be trained to handle situations like this. For the most part, postpartum is a wonderful experience and you mostly take care of healthy moms and babies. While you rotate through nursing clinicals including labor and delivery, NICU, and postpartum, you get to see some of everything and that will help you in your decision.
@@Romi_joy I am starting my journey as a L&D nurse. Well, I mean to say I am starting my prerequisites in January. I am very nervous and excited! I feel so behind "college" stuff. I am 36 and I feel old to go back to school. My youngest is 2 and he is my busiest baby. I can't remember anything.
I have delivered four boys and I know how important nurses are. I hope to be one of those amazing nurses to help a mama have her baby! Thank you for your video!
My c section is 10/10 and I’m getting so excited to meet my baby 🎉❤
Loved the Vlog 👍🏽
Thanks so much glad you enjoyed!😁
Ahh, miss working w the babies. Great video!
they are super adorable ❤️ thank you!
This is the first time I ever saw anyone fill out a chart ❤️
Hello great video? Would you so happen to have drafts of that report sheet stored some where ?
This is so helpful!
im happy to hear that!!
Love it 😍 thank you 🙏
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This was so interesting to watch! I have two year old twins and my nurses were EVERYTHING!! They made my experience such a pleasant one that I cried when I left them, haha. Y'all are saints! Thank you for sharing some behind the scenes! :)
aww I love this so much ❤️ I'm so happy you had an awesome experience and we love our mommas so much 😊 congratulations on your twins!
Oh my goodness, the tiny flushes! My husband is a PCU RN and he brings home the regular flushes alllll the time. They’re great for all sorts of stuff 😂
Used to Work in L& D from 7p-7a..it was tough. I.couldnt get used to it, had to switch back to days.
man being on a day schedule now I feel so much better, my body is so much more regulated too. I do love nights though!!
I am in awe that you have only 2 to 3 couplets. We usually start with 4-5 high risk couplets (that’s 8-10 moms and babies), discharge a few, and admit several more per RN. We handle chorioamnionitis, hemorrhages, preeclamptic moms, respiratory distress, jaundice, infants with renal & cardiac issues requiring VCUGs or echocardiograms, etc. That’s our regular floor, not NICU. I usually walk (run) 10 miles a day, and I’m in my 50’s.
omg! I wouldn't know what to do with 4-5 couplets, especially those with multiple issues like you handle. How do you like it? Do you find yourself burned out/stressed or do you enjoy it? We definitely don't care for babies in respiratory distress, they go to NICU for any kind of distress. Our floor is normally for the the high risk moms including maggers, step down ICU from DIC, hemorrhages requiring transfusion, basically anything abnormal from a normal delivery and any high risk babies go to nursery where they will do minor renal/cardiac issues, jaundice, iv abx, etc. Are you just a normal postpartum floor? I'm so curious because I would be so stressed handling all those patients.
How are you tubn
Every RN I watch they all drink coffee ☕️ 😂😅 I can’t wait to start school in the fall for L&D RN!
can't live without it haha although I am trying to wean off it 😂😂 congrats you got this!!
I’m also a mother-baby nurse and also hopefully a soon to be genetic counseling student (which is under the umbrella of the school of medicine)! Just knocking out some pre reqs! Also I wish we got 2-3 couplets :( we get 4, sometimes 5.
omg! I don't know what I would do with 4-5 couplets 😢
Same here. 4-5 couplets, most of the moms and babies are high risk, late term premies, IUGR, glucuse protocol, mom and baby on IV antibiotics due to chorioamnionitis, renal and cardiac issues requiring VCUG‘s, ultrasound, and echocardiograms.
Love the patient example!! do you have a link to the SBAR sheet? Im a new grad starting on the postpartum floor and this will help so much with giving report!! thanks!!!!!
ahh no someone just made the sheet from scratch and we just copy it over and over. Maybe next time I go to work ill be able to scan it and make a link to it!
Your channel is amazing🤸🏾♀️🤩🤩🤩🤩🤩🤩🤩🤩🤩🤩
thank you so much it means a lot!!!
What kind of jacket is that? I love it!
Awesome, this is nice!
glad you enjoyed!!💕
Could you do a video on postpartum vs labor and delivery nursing I’m graduating in December and I’m very torn between the two❤️
Absolutely!! I made a video on the different types of women's nurses here! ❤️
th-cam.com/video/qKMBjcosHMc/w-d-xo.html
Mother/baby cna here it’s so cool to compare our supplies n report sheets lol
I think the same thing when I watch other videos!! 😊
How are you nonni
My mom is a postpartum nurse also
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You are so inspiring Romi! (New subscriber🥰)Thanks for sharing all this.
P.S. Do you have any advice for a new PP/L+D nurse?
Hi Faith! Thanks for joining the fam ❤️ Try not to be too hard on yourself with all the new information you will learn right out of nursing school, you will be a pro soon and don't be afraid to ask for help when you need it 😊 Practice those cervical checks on a cervix measurement ruler often!
this is my dream job omg
Does she have more episodes for post partum? Trying to learn as much as possible before my first day
this was such a good video!! thank you
Yay I’m glad you enjoyed ❤️
I love this! I’m becoming a freshmen in high school and I really want to become a LD nurse and I’m so passionate about it but, I can’t do vomit. Do you have any tips to help get a stronger stomach?
Lots of nurses I know can’t do vomit either and have to leave the room to get some nausea medicine, but don’t let that hold you back! It’s just one small thing to being a nurse. I can tolerate it no problem and stand there comforting the patient while they do it, but the other nurses say it’s mind over matter. Control your gag reflex before it triggers such as counting your fingers or reading something on the whiteboard, it’ll help your mind focus. If you simply cannot tolerate it, leave the room and tell the pt you’re going to get them medicine. By the time you get back, they should be done and everything will be in a nice little remiss bag thrown away and you can give them the medicine without having to deal with any of it!!
Emesis bag*
My nurse didn’t want to give me baby milk until my family came in the next day so for a full night my baby was crying. (My baby didn’t want to latch on she didn’t want it) even after the nurse helped me latch her on nothing. Also the incubator wasn’t charged/working. Don’t get Kaiser.
Hi Romi! I loved this video I am currently a TELE nurse but have floated to postpartum multiple times and find that I truly love that floor. I feel our joy and happiness being postpartum and on TELE not so much.. I’m hesitant about switching floors because I’m a new grad and feel as though I’m learning a lot on tele I’m just not happy tho.. any advice or suggestions? How did you decide postpartum was for you?
I loved women's health when I did clinicals in nursing school and couldn't imagine myself anywhere else!!! my advice is if you feel joy and happiness when you are on postpartum then switch!! I think you will find joy and be happy because you already feel that way when you are on that floor!! I'll never get tired of taking care of mommas and babies so try it out :) the beauty of nursing is you can always switch out of specialties anytime!
The idea of needing a size 3 nappy in hospital is crazy to me. My eldest was stil in a size when we went to pull ups for potty training ( which was a headache to find)
the bigger sizes are usually for momma's who bring in their toddlers that are breastfeeding and they also had a baby :)
This is what I wanted to do 😭. I never even received an interview. The only position I got was in dialysis.
That’s ok! You can always switch specialties after a few months in ;) if you’re under contract you can still switch within your hospital!
That’s my fear ☹️ but i refuse to do anything else
@@stephanie4388 I’m hoping your luck is better than mine. Unfortunately, a lot of new grads don’t get their first choice for their first job.
@@hyosomoo1437 ive heard of new grads getting jobs in postpartum, NICU, neuro ICU. I guess it’s dependent on the hospital. What state are you from? Were there many positions available even bc theres barely near me and I’m in NJ.
love this report sheet! do you have a copy that you don’t mind sharing?
Hi, did you ever get a copy of her report sheet? I like how it is very simple and easy to follow. If you have a copy do you mind sharing it?
Seemed easy 😊
When your a postpartum nurse do you have to give the babies shots right? Also is it always 12-hours? And some days do you feel super tired? And also do you do stuff when your off shift? Sorry for all these questions, I’m thinking of being a postpartum nurse lol
would you say charting takes majority of the time? do you spend more time charting than w/ baby and mom?
Hello Romi! This was so interesting. Did you become a postpartum nurse straight out of nursing school?
hi rose! I started out (and still am) an OB/GYN nurse that takes care of high risk postpartum, so yes straight out of nursing school!
@@Romi_joy any tips on how to get into ob/gyn nursing after graduating, i really want to do post partum and l&d
My moms a nurse so we have the grossest convos lol while watching true crime at meal times lol
haha love this!!
Aspiring nurse student here and i want to get into pp/l&d thank you for this!!
you got this!!
Great video
Glad you enjoyed it!!
I don’t know why this was recommended to me. But it made me relive my stay in the hospital when I had my daughter. I love my nurses. Just didn’t like the lady who gave my daughter her last blood test before we went home, from her heel. She did it twice! And my daughter bleed so much that she soaked the bandaid and it was still bleeding after 5 hours. I had to put a big bandaid and was too afraid to take it off after a few days. Now she has a scar and she’s two! I can still see it 🙄
I'm glad most of your nurses were great! Sorry about that another one, hopefully if you ever come back your experience will be perfect ❤️ congratulations on your little one momma!
Where can I find a copy of the nurse brain you used for report? I start my OB clinical next week and would love this to practice
I'm trying to figure out where I could upload it for you guys, do you have any suggestions?
@@Romi_joy maybe scan it and add a link in the video description? Not sure how else
Do your hospitals take 2 year or 4 year degree nurses. My area now only accepts 4 year bsn for hospital work on any unit and require the 2 year nurses already there to go back to finish school if they want to stay in their jobs.
some hospitals are doing this, but not all of them. A lot of BSN "preferred" and not required, but my tip is to apply to them anyways if you are an ADN. It doesn't hurt and some hospitals may still hire you and pay for you to a BSN while you're working 😊
4 weeks away from baby #4, just put goody bags to say thanks to the nurses. Having a planned c section, how many nurses would I have for my stay ( estimate). I never counted with my past c sections. You seem so sweet, loved seeing this makes me excited.
Also, if someone asks you for diapers or extra pacifiers do you give it? Are there rules about this, we literally started all over again
Hi there congratulations momma!! You are so sweet to make goody bags for your nurses, I bet you're their favorite patient!😍 Yes you can have as many diapers as you need, typically we only give one pacifier but if it drops on the floor or something we give another one. Just depends on how strict the hospital is. Don't be afraid to ask for more of what you need!! And if they say no, wait a little bit and then say yours dropped on the floor lol in case your hospital is a little more strict with their rules ☺️
Congratulations 🥰🙏🏽
Definitely ask. You’ve paid for it anyway with the hospital bill lol
How are you
dream job! 💞
My nurse gave us soo much stuff when we left
I just came across this video and love it. Was L&D your first RN job ? How was your orientation and overall experience ? I just recently quit my ED orientation. I have always loved babies and helping women so I’ve had an interest in L&D and NICU. I may start to apply again to L&D. I feel like ED was super fast faced and I wasn’t passionate about it. Maybe with L&D it will work out ! I love this introduction to it all!
Antepartum/OBGYN was my first RN job! Then I cross trained to L&D after a year or two and thats how I continue to work there as they're always short staffed and I float or pick up. You definitely get the best of both worlds of helping women and babies in L&D. I hope you get the job, I'm rooting for you!! 💕
@yolie zackschewski I work L&D and it's very much like an ER, laboring and OR/PACU environment but with pregnant moms and babies. It's super fast pace and things can go scary in some deliveries. Always have to be ready for an emergency. If you like that adrenaline you'll like L&D. I've done it for a year and I know I won't be doing it longterm. Unfortunately very exhausting and stressful for my type of personality. But I also think it depends what hospital you work in and nicu level of care. People are getting sicker during pregnancy and it sometimes feels like an ICU. But I do love helping these pts during their laboring process it very rewarding. Unfortunately, the shortage of nursing staff I think is making this unit harder because we are given more patients than Normally recommended and can sometimes feel unsafe. But hey try it you might just love it:) it really is a personality thing. If you like adrenaline, busy, and mom's and baby's this may just be good for you. :)
Anyone in Arizona. I want to get my BSN and currently looking for a college, it's hard to decide 😐
I want to be a pediatric, l&d, or postpartum, nurse someday. Just that I don't want to work 12 hour shifts!!! Anything you do to get yourself thought the night. Also... Is your sleep schedule jacked up 😅?
nooo working nights for 4 years I have my sleep schedule pretty much down, however some nights can be jacked up occasionally haha. three 12 hr shifts are soooo much better for me than 5 days 8 hr days a week. But everyone is different and some people prefer it!! And coffee/tea gets me through the night lol 😂
Hello I just realized I had both of my girls at the same hospital that you work for, I do have a question my oldest was born November 2015 my youngest was born June 2020. I have been dealing though with heavy postpartum depression issues and its getting worse does OB triage help with this??
Hi I’m sorry you are going through this, please come to OB triage if you are having thoughts of hurting yourself or your loved ones and we will take care of you. If not, contact your doctor as soon as you read this, so we can get you help to start feeling better. You got this momma you are strong.
@@Romi_joy I will definitely thank you for all you do and I wish you the very best on medical school. You'll do more great things
Does anyone know what popsicles are at the hospital
Grape, orange, strawberry normally lol
@@Romi_joy lol I meant the name 😭 I had my son at Harris last month and I still haven’t found out what kind of popsicle it was
Thank you for sharing your vidio, my favorate drink for breakfast is coffe,, im nee friend in youtubes godbless
I love me some coffee 💖
Do all hospitals have donor breast milk? When I was at the hospital my milk wasn’t able to come in and my baby lost a lot of weight so they got concerned and said they should feed him a bit of formula. I was really set on breastfeeding so I got upset but I wanted him to be okay so I said it was fine. Did I have to specifically ask for donor breast milk or does not every hospital have it?
hi there, not every hospital has donor breast milk as some do not have milk banks nearby or they just use it for premature babies only. If they have it available for all babies for supplementation purposes the hospital should ask you before you deliver if it is something you are interested in. I'm sorry about your experience, I hope breastfeeding is going well! If you decide on another baby, you can around at different hospitals in your area if they have it if that is something you are interested in 😊
@@Romi_joy aw yes breastfeeding is going amazing now! I’ll definitely have to look into that though thank you so much!!
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In nursing school, this floor was a turn off for me only because of the double charting (mom and baby). Does it seem a lot for you? Or is it not that bad? Other than that I loved it.
its honestly not bad at all. Once you get the hang of it and where to click etc, it takes me about 10-15 minutes total for all of my patients to finish charting. Then just chart different details throughout the night such as intake/output, feeding times, etc.
How to get to labor as LPN. I was midwife back in my country for 5 years. I went back to school here, I'm now LPN, but I would like to go back to labor & delivery special postpartum. Any advice? Thanks in advance.
keep applying even if they say bachelors required!!! If its still hard, you can do an LPN to RN bridge program
@@Romi_joy thank you for getting back to me.
It's very nice video.
Where do you work as a Registered nurse?
Would you mind sharing the report sheet please🥰
I'm trying to figure out the best way to make the document shareable, for now DM me on insta and ill send it to you!!
This is my dream specialty. What can I do to get a job in maternity? I am a second semester nursing student and I’m trying to look for maternity jobs as a tech to gain experience. How did you get hired? Advice?
hey there! I made a video on how I went into labor and delivery but these tips still apply to any OB position 😊 th-cam.com/video/sq91EbmAKko/w-d-xo.html
You can work as a PCT a patient care technician in the maternity unit if you have your CNA license
@@bohemianchic638 that’s my goal currently!
I’m trying my best to reach out to managers and recruiters at hospitals near me.
Find someone on the unit. Use them as a reference. Try to do your practicum on the unit you’re interested in
How can I get a copy of your report sheet ?
What would a clinical medical assistants role be in obgyn and delivery?
I don’t see MA’s in the hospital as much but in OB clinics they do things like take vitals on the mommas, ask questions, do labs and run tests!
@@Romi_joy oh okay makes sense thanks :)
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I work in postpartum. What is the disc locator?
It’s the disc number for the little yellow gps locator on their ankles!
@@Romi_joy ooo!! We call it alarm bracelet! Haha
@@breezy_basil ahhhhh i like hearing what other places call things 😄
@@Romi_joy same 🤣
Ours is called a HUGS. That’s the name of the alarm system.