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What is a day in the life of an L&D nurse like?


August 14th, 2022

A day can be so varied depending on the type of unit you are working. You can have laboring patients that can deliver or others that need the OR for a cesarean section. You can be assigned to the OR and do any scheduled cesarean sections or do them all along with other circulating nurses that day. There are happy outcomes and then there will be days that a mom comes in and she has to be told there is no heartbeat and you have to help and support the family when they deliver their baby. There will be days when you barely have time to eat and other times there is not much to do

September 6th, 2022

... and, depending on the size of the hospital in which you work, you could also be a mother-baby nurse, helping new families learn how to care and feed their newborn. You can learn to be a Nursery nurse and be responsible for the stabilization of the newborn after vaginal or cesarean delivery as well.