I am also finishing up my pre reqs this fall to apply for an accelerated program!! im so nervous I hope I get in, good luck to you!!

Thank you! Good luck to you too!

Good luck!! You've got this!!

hi!! I'm in NYC and considering nursing school. what programs did you apply to?

aw thank you so much! I hope everything is going well for you!!

@@margaretarmen thanks girl!! Can’t wait to see more videos 💖

Congratulations!! Good luck with your job I hope you get it 😊

🩷🩷. Yes! All the time lol pretty much all of my patients were on pitocin

Nursing school was definitely challenging but not impossible! The best thing to do is just take it one step at a time and you'll get through it no problem!

@@margaretarmen thank youuu so much🫶🏼

We circulate at my hospital!

I went straight for L&D because that was more in line with what I wanted. If I hadn't gotten this job I probably would've considered postpartum just to stay in OB and then transferred to L&D when I could.

You can go straight into L&D! I graduate in April 2023 and have a new grad job in L&D lined up. Since specialties are highly sought after it can be hard to get positions in them. My best advice is to start applying early! Hospitals where I am say apply for your new grad job 6-9 months before graduation. Reach out to the hospitals in your area before that 9 month out mark and talk to their managers to see when their applications will open for L&D or if you can interview. I did a lot of shadowing and added that onto my resume to show my interest. Getting a tech job on that unit also helps a lot as I know some people who really didn’t have to interview for their jobs since they were already employed in the unit. Make sure you get to see all the L&D units in your area to get a good feel of where you feel would be the best fit for you. It feels almost impossible when you’re trying to get interviews and waiting for offers but just remember to stay hopeful!

@@kennedyraquel6472 thank you sm for the response !!!

Sorry for taking so long to respond! You can definitely go straight to L&D! I knew I didn't want to work in any other specialty to just applied to L&D jobs before graduating.

@@margaretarmen at least your responded lol thank you !!

1. In a healthy/typical delivery, you measure the baby after mom and baby have skin to skin time. 2. The provider (doctor), charge nurse, and L&D nurse are taking care of baby and mom no matter if things go perfect or very wrong. 3. The answer to your last question varies depending on what you mean by “interact.” If you are wondering if you get a moment to sit and hold the baby, the answer is no. Your job is 100% to make sure that the baby is healthy and mom is healthy and you move along to your next delivery. Labor and delivery nursing is one of- if not the hardest nursing jobs out there. You will not have any free time throughout the day and many breaks will be skipped and a lot of over time will be put in. On the other hand, if you’re talking about how much time will be spent taking care of baby and making sure baby is healthy, you will spend a good amount of time doing that, but the majority of your time will be spent with mom during labor and delivery.

Hi! At my hospital, we have a newborn assessment nurse (NAN) that comes to assess the baby during the recovery period (2hrs post delivery) while they are still on our unit. The NAN will measure the baby, take footprints, administer medications, etc. I will often weigh the baby if the parents ask me to but I mostly just leave them skin-to-skin until the NAN arrives to take advantage of the golden hour. I take vitals on the baby every 30 minutes and if something were to go unexpectedly wrong there are a few things we can do. Depending on how urgent the issue is, I will either hit a code blue to get the whole team into the room quickly OR if we have time I will call the NICU resident to come and assess the baby. I am lucky that my hospital is pretty large and we have a ton of resources at our disposal. At my hospital, our physicians and pediatricians often do not come back to see the patient until the next day after they are on postpartum. This means it is up to the nurses to be assessing mom and baby and identify if there is a need for the docs to come evaluate further. Most of my job focuses on mom and helping her through delivery/the immediate postpartum phase. Even after delivery, I don't spend too much time with baby aside from vitals and swaddling them for the parents. If I have a slower day I can sometimes help a mom breastfeed if she needs some assistance. I would say if you want babies to be more of your focus, think about a mother/baby unit or working in the NICU! I hope this helps!

If you’re hoping to do more things with babies it would be better to go into a peds specialty. Even in nicu it’s not really a hold the babies all day kind of job since those babies can be really sick. Shadowing in the different specialties will help a lot when it comes to figuring out where you want to go!

I started working 50/50 days and nights but now I’m straight days!

According to Indeed $41.01/hr for nurses with less than a year of experience and an average of $45.38/hr overall.

@@margaretarmen wow! what state is this again?