My first month as a New Labor & Delivery Nurse!
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- čas přidán 23. 03. 2021
- Hi loves! Today I am talking all about my first month as a new L&D nurse and I am so excited to share with you all the details! :) I hope you guys enjoy & make sure you subscribe & like the video if you enjoyed. As always, leave any comments below & I'll try to answer all the questions!
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I remember about a year ago when I was at a crossroad in my life and wasn’t sure if I should go into nursing and watching your videos really helped me make that decision, Now it’s like almost full circle where you’ve gotten your dream job and I’m done with my prerequisites and about to start nursing school. I’m so happy and thankful for you 😊😊❤️
Busola, this made my heart so happy!! Im so happy i was able to help motivate you & you’re about to start nursing school!! 😭🤍 I really hope you love it girl!! Thank you so much for your sweet comment 🥰
That is absolutely amazing 🎉 I’m ready to get started I can’t wait until I can say the same thing🎉
The fact that made surg experience didn’t help you was weirdly comforting😂 I graduate in 1 year and I thought about doing medsurg before going into L&D. This video definitely changed my mind ❤️
I will encourage you to go for the specialty that you like. You don’t have to start with Med-Surg. Do what makes you happy
Completely agree, go where your heart pulls you! You can always be retrained if you want to move on to a different unit 🥰
In nursing school everyone told us to do med-surg before going into a specialty but honestly it doesn’t matter, if I was you I would definitely try to get into a specialty right away. I did MedSurg first and I really wish that I would’ve been able to get into a specialty area first because I feel like it really didn’t prepare me for anything and I also hated it LOL
I’m currently a medsurg nurse starting L&D in a couple of months and I’m so excited to find my passion for nursing again ❤
IT IS SO REFRESHING SEE SOMEONE TRULY LOVE THEIR JOB. Girl you were glowing in this video!❤️❤️❤️
I am a Med-Surg nurse and after having my baby I developed a great appreciation for L&D nurses. I’m glad you are loving it!
It’s AMAZING! So much more than I thought it was, they are BOMB nurses.
I am so happy I came across this video. I just started a job as a L&D nurse. I worked as a medsurg telemetry nurse for about 18 months prior. However I feel like a new grad nurse all over again. I love L&D I just was feeling a little discouraged because the unit is so specialized! Thank you for the video
I'm applying to a nursing college today and I've been watching your videos for inspiration and motivation. I clicked this video because I wanted to see the full circle result and OH MY GOSH YOUR HAIR IS BEAUTIFUL. LOOOVE QUEEN
I literally feel like this video is God sent!! I am also a medical/oncology nurse one year post graduation. A job position at my hometown hospital just became available for a L&D nurse! I’m going to apply but I’m very nervous! Like you said, it’s like you’re a new nurse again😩But hearing your experience really makes me feel some relief! I’ve even been doubting whether I should even apply or not, but after seeing this I feel like I definitely need to because I will be so much happier in my career than I am now!
Thank you so much!! It sounds like you have learned so much in a short amount of time!! You go!!
I’m still not sure what I wanna do after nursing school but L&D is something I always think about. Can’t wait to see all your future L&D videos! 💕
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I'm going to nursing school soon. I'm so excited! My long-term goal is to either be an NP or an OR nurse.
Yay! Congrats!!
I just got into nursing school! I’m so excited and can’t wait till the fall. Thank you for helping to inspire me and for being such a great creator! I’m happy that you are the unit you’ve always dreamed about!
Thank you so so much! You are so sweet :) I am so happy I have been able to inspire you, I hope you enjoy nursing & nursing school!
My heart is so happy for how happy you are!
Thank you so much! 🤍
Thanks for sharing your experience nurse Jackie! You're the best!
Thank you for following along :)
I'm so happy that you found your place in nursing. It really gives me hope that one day when I become a nurse I will find the same. Thank you so much for sharing your first month as a labor and delivery nurse. I'm really looking forward to learning more about labor and delivery.
thank you so so much! you will definitely find the same, even if your path starts off somewhere different (like mine) doesn't mean you wont end up exactly where you want to be!
i was just watching your transition to l&d video and this popped up in my subscriptions!! great timing
Yay!! 🤍
YAY! i’ve been waiting for this video, SO happy for you and loved hearing about the start of your new journey so much! best of luck to you, i can tell this is what you’re meant for 💘💙👶🏼
Thanks sweet girl! I am so excited to learn as much as I can and be able to share it all with you guys!
I clicked so fast!! love love love your videos! keep me motivated trying to finish out nursing school! so excited for you! :)
Thank you so much for following my journey! 🤍 I’m so happy i am able to help 😊
Btw your video was so on point with my experience as well!! Especially with not feeling ALONE!!
i stopped doing my homework to watch this. i’m so happy that you finally got your dream job!!!💞
Thank you so so much!! 😊
HAHA ME TOO I’m writing a paper for ethics
I loved this video! Thank you so much for sharing 🤍 I’m super exited for this upcoming fall I’m staring college and pre-nursing!
Thank you for watching 😊 congrats on starting your journey!
so happy for you!! cant wait to see myself as a l&d nurse💖💖
It’ll happen quick girl I promise!! I can’t believe I’m already here 🥰
I graduate nursing school this year and your video makes me so excited to become a new nurse. So happy that you are where you want to be and so soon. You'll learn so much and continue to learn everyday and one day you will be able to do it in your sleep. Good luck mama!
Congrats!! I’m so happy my video excites you! 🤍🤍
Some great resources I have found is bundle birth nurse, Spinning babies, and sufficient grace ministries. They all have wonderful information about different parts of our job and how to help our moms and babies! So happy you are in love with your job. I was a new grad lucky enough to start in a level 3 Labor and delivery and a year later I can tell you i am still in love just as much as day one!
I just got accepted into nursing school and I start this fall! My dream is to be a L&D nurse! I can't wait! This video got me more excited!!
I’m graduating in May and L&D is my dream!! You’re so lucky! I also just had my first baby 5 weeks ago, and that made me want to work in l&d even more!! Great video 😀 love your hair too, you’re so pretty!
OMG how cool! Congrats on your baby and almost graduating! :)
Friend!!! I feel you!! I was an LVN for 17 yrs which included several years of bedside nursing! Just finished my new grad orientation in L&D last week, but YEEEESSS nothing prepared me for this!!! I'm learning to love it now, but giiiirl back in Oct I was dyyyyying
ITS SO MUCH! Such a different learning curve right?! I am so excited to learn, but honestly everyday I am soo stressed LOL
@@DailyDoseofNursing Completely AGREE!!🙏🤪
I graduated Nursing school in May and just passed my NCLEX and I am starting to apply to positions now. I knew since before Nursing scholl that I wanted to be in labor and delivery with no doubt in my mind. I would love to start as a new grad!
I am 3 months into my L/D orientation :) I came from cardiac step down (1 year) and YES girl, it feels like I’m a new grad all over again! But labor is my absolute love and it’s such a gift to be a nurse to my patients. So glad you are loving it girlie, it’s hard (not all butterflies and rainbows like some people might think) but loving it makes it so worth it!
Yes girl!! I feel the exact way!! It makes me appreciate this job SO MUCH. it’s my entire heart! How do you feel 3 months into orientation?!
@@DailyDoseofNursing I’m feeling pretty good because I know I’m never truly alone. I’m starting on my own next week!
You got this girl, your patients are lucky to have you.
I am currently on my first week of Orientation on the Labor and Delivery Residency program So scared but excited!
I’m actually in my first semester of RN school and this is my DREAM JOB ❤️
I love your transparency. I’m a new nurse and I’ve been doing vaccine sites for now. And I got a call back for L&D and I’m super stoked so I’m just doing research on questions and getting ready and I love to hear experiences like this. I hope I can handle it and get the job! My clinical experience wasn’t the best either.
I’m doing the same thing, working in vaccinations and just got called from L&D for an interview. Did you get offered a job there and how do you like it?
@@laekmoonz hey! Yes I accepted and I’m a month in. There’s a lot of educational classes and videos to watch and then go on unit and learn some more. Lots of learning. I’ll be beginning in triage to understand the flow of the unit. Just have to commit to the orientation process which is long. Mine is 5 days 8 hour shifts until we switch to 3 12 hour shifts
I loved your point about L&D being very teamwork oriented and thank you for the fetal heart monitoring book suggestion. I graduate this May and just accepted my first RN position on a L&D unit! Super excited!
how do you like it so far? :)
@@dani.tellii Loving it thus far! Thank you for asking.
@@jazstroder7031 aw yay! good luck to you 💗 i’ll be applying for L&D soon! i graduate in may ‘23 :)
@@dani.tellii Aww awesome - congrats in advance and thank you!
Excited for you! I’m an LVN and went from family medicine/urgent care , internal medicine(which is similar to family medicine lol) to OB/GYN wow what a difference lol I totally agree, I felt like I knew nothing !
Yes so different haha!
Your hair looks so pretty! Lovin the blonde look
This was so interesting. I live in a semi-rural area and we don’t have specific people for each role, if you are OB you are doing it all. Labor and delivery, the before and the after. You just rotate! Also, peds is on the same floor so you are like, an OB/ped nurse.
I will start my first nursing job there in May ❤️
That’s so crazy!! I’m sure you guys have amazing experience!!
So excited for you!! 🥰
Thanks Lexi 🤍
I love love your videos I have 8 months left of nursing school I cannot wait
Im so happy you enjoy them! 😊 thats so exciting, you’re almost done!!
I found your page recently and its helped me so much to prepare for clinicals, I start clinical for the first time next sept 2021! congratulations on all your accomplishments! if you can make more helpful tips for beginning nursing students please tell us! keep up the videos I love and need them!
YAY! I am so happy I have been able to help you prepare!! I can definitely add that to my list of videos :)
GIRL, you hit everything right on the T!
Great video as always and such an amazing update loved it 🥰👍🏾👏🏾🤗
Thank you so much Mellonee! :)
@@DailyDoseofNursing Your very welcome anytime 🤗 love watching your videos
so interesting to see this! I’m a new grad on a adult stroke stepdown unit & just interviewed for pediatric icu at a completely different hospital. I’m sooo nervous. Glad you’re rocking it & lovin it! Hope i get the same luck lol
OMG nice!! That is seriously the BEST part of nursing! We can move on till we find what we love!
Pediatrics is what i want to do🤗
thank you for this video!!!!!!!!!!! helped me so so much. i will be going into l&d from 1.5 years in medsurg and i’m so incredibly excited and nervous and the genuineness of this video has given me much comfort 🩷
So crazy! I just passed my first year of an oncology med surg and I just applied to L&D. ❤️
As a new grad it makes me feel a tiny bit better knowing I'm not the only person who feels like the newest person on the planet next to the babies
In starting nursing school on april 6th i also want to be a labor delivery nurse and eventually becoming a midwife. I'm excited but also anxious
i'm almost done with my nursing school. I have 2 semesters left. I am a PCA at a hospital that just had a new L and D facility and I want to go straight into that... Love ur content!
OMG nice! Make sure to network as much as you can! If you can also be PCA on that unit.. that would be AMAZING so you can get in! :)
@@DailyDoseofNursing thank you will do!
My first job will be on the Mother Baby unit!! I am so excited to get started!! My dream is to work on L&D, but the hospitals I wanted to work at aren’t hiring new grads right now. But I am excited to get some exposure in the delivery realm ☺️
I don't get why hospitals don't want to hire new grads on specialty units like OB or ICU. How else are you supposed to get experience. Seems like lots of jobs are like that. They only want to hire someone with years of experience, but how is anyone going to get experience if you can't get hired to learn the job?
@@kaitieknipe4048 Hi there! So the reason is because those speciality units tend to have high turnover, especially for new grads, since there is sooo much to learn and usually a higher acuity. The first year of nursing is a huge transition/learning period to begin with. I started on mother baby and worked there for 7 months and now I’m in a level 3 NICU (& I’m obsessed🤩). I am so grateful I started on mother baby and was able to enter the NICU with some experience and exposure.
I would love to know some of the interview questions they asked and how you answered! Have my L&D interview next week 🤞🏻
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I've been off of orientation for 6 months now on my ldrp unit and I can tell you, all of the new grads nurses that have started on my unit have struggled tremendously, I have not seen this with me and the other nurses with previous experience as an RN, especially with those who didn't work in a clinical care position prior to starting on the unit
L&d is the best! Enjoy it girl.
Thanks girl, it really is the best 🤍
Youngest granddaughter in graduate training spent three weeks in a mommy baby unit. Was just transferred to L&D at Houston Methodist. Yesterday, oldest granddaughter delivered our first great grandchild 4/7/2021.
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I start nursing school in October! I cant wait my dream is L&D
YAY! Congrats! :)
2nd semester here ,me too
My hospital’s orientation for L&D was 4 months, I had 2 years med surg experience and I was like please no I want more training 😂
Thats me!! I'm like wait only 3 months.. GIMME MOREEE LOL
This was my dream job, but for someone with anxiety I wasn't able to manage feeling overwhelmed. I was told by the director on my last day, I should consider another field. I went into Mental Health and now I am going to school for psych NP. L&D is not for everyone. If you don't fit in, you get bullied by RNs AND doctors! At least that is the case where I worked.
You didn’t try work in the NICU?
Video recommendation: interview questions for L&D unit!
got it!!
Ugh this is my dream job, I just wish school went faster😭
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Nursing student here, it is my dream to be a labor and delivery nurse in the future. Have you dealt with any losses of mother or baby yet? Did it affect you differently than death on the med-surge unit? Love your videos and wishing you the best!
I have not personally yet! But I know it will be so much more difficult 🥺
Jackie, im in my last semester and I know in my heart that I want to do pediatrics. But nursing school did not put any emphasis on pediatrics at all. That's so annoying to me; all my clinical rotations were adult health😩😩
Same girl!! 😩 but it’s okay! You’ll learn it all in the job! 🤍
I graduate with my BSN in August and I would love to to land a job in L&D
Granddaughter is wrapping up first year as a L&D nurse Houston Methodist.
Could you please do a video on how to navigate looking for new jobs a with less than a year into a specialty? I'm on a cardiac step-down, but I know crna is my end goal so am thinking of how to go about getting into cvicu! It was so encouraging to see you transition so quickly, because so many people are like "you need years at one job to prep"
Hey girl! Yes I can 🤍🤍
@@DailyDoseofNursing thank you so much!!! 💜💜
My favorites nurses are the postpartum nurses. They are so kind.
The labor & Delivery nurses I've gotten aren't bad but some have given me attitude & asked me to be quiet ... are pretty demanding which makes giving Birth in a hospital unpleasant
I have been an OR nurse for almost 6 years and I’ve been wanting to go into L&D for a while now! I keep noticing that most L&D positions seem to be a rotating shift though. Is that the typical for L&D nurses??
Goodluck you’ll do great
Thank you Jean!
I really want to go into nursing but first need my GED. And my goal is to go into L&D and postpartum (idk if you can do both) honestly I want to get a jump start on reading. What are some of the best books for nursing and ones that may be about L&D
I want to be a L&D nurse. I graduate in December this year! But.. because of Covid we had very limited clinical experience. I had maybe 20 clinicals so far.. I want to be a successful nurse but am scared and afraid that people will think I’m stupid or incompetent. Did you ever deal with this feeling as a new nurse?
How’s it going now?! Are you loving it?
Omg only 3 months!?? Just you alone speaking about it sounds very overwhelming and like a huge learning curve.
I'm also an oncology nurse thinking about labor and delivery!
Random question but where did you get your phone case in the thumb nail lol?
What’s the pay for L&D? Did previous experience help boost the compensation?
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did you live on your own during nursing school, and if so was it difficult? I’m living at home still and starting nursing school soon and I’m curious when a good time to move out is
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I graduate in may and never got any OB clinicals bc Covid😭😭 so idk if I would like working l&d or not ugh! Did you really enjoy the content in class or is it way different in real life?
I loved the content in class! & as far as I remember it’s very similar to interventions you learn in school too!!
I'm preparing for nursing entrance exam. I hope I get in.........
I have a question, since I’m having twins does that automatically mean I’ll deliver in an OR or is there a possibility of delivering in a standard room? Does it vary by state ?
Hi! This is a question for your OB 🤍
How did you get a L&D job with med surg experience? I almost have 2 years and have been having trouble getting an L&D job without women’s health experience
Hey girly! Watch my last video (about which unit I was going to) I talk all about it! 🤍
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You are so beautiful 😍😍😍
Thank you sweet girl 🤍
what’s the salary for an labor delivery nurse?
Depends on your city & experience level!
Do you still get paid as an intern. ??
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no.
Did you get the COVID vaccine?
That's none of your business.
As a mom who had her baby need the NICU services after she was born it wasn’t neat or interesting at all. Please don’t refer to a baby that’s unresponsive and basically dying in that moment as anything but tragic. I stopped watching after you said that and will not watch another one of your videos again. Please be more respectful for others.
Never said it wasn’t tragic.. it’s horrible. I’m a nurse and I need to learn how to react in those situations. Super interesting to see the team dynamic and how they all knew what to do and how to do it. This is my job. If I were in that position as a nurse and just stopped to be sad I would be wasting precious time instead of saving the babies life.
I totally agree with you, I was put off my her choice of words
I was so happy to see this video pop up in my feed as it's my dream to be an L&D nurse! Applied to nursing school this week.
Yay! L&D is the bomb! 😊
My hospital’s orientation for L&D was 4 months, I had 2 years med surg experience and I was like please no I want more training 😂
I love how we as experienced nurses always crave more! 😂 we know the stress that comes after!! Haha.