#labornurse

Her: “Oh, so you’re a labor and delivery nurse! That’s so nice! You got a nice easy nursing job!”

Me: “ummm... actually, not really. Most the time it’s pretty cool and rewarding.... but those rewards come with HARD work and challenges! Not only is it a lot of physically labor-moving women into multiple different positions while trying to keep a baby on the monitor so as to help them achieve a vaginal delivery... but it’s also an emotional career as you rush her back to the OR when her baby’s heart tones drop and don’t recover, or when she comes in full term to triage not feeling her baby move-tonrealize she’s lost the baby, or she begins uncontrollably bleeding and her and her child’s life are threatened! So... no, I don’t think ‘easy’ is exactly how I’d describe L&D nursing.”

Her: 🤯

Always short staffed, management wanting everyone to work overtime all the time, and low morale because we've been busy in addition to being short staffed. I love what I do, but it's been so tough lately on everyone in the unit and it's exhausting.