WHAT I LOVED AND DIDN’T LOVE ABOUT LABOR AND DELIVERY NURSING | the pros + cons of L&D
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In this video, I’m talking to you all about what things I loved about working labor and delivery, and what things I didn’t love.
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This video is literally everything I was feeling. I did L&D for two years and I felt so much guilt when I decided to leave. It was my dream job. But that constant state of anxiety….I couldn’t do it anymore. Very relatable.
Love this video! I’m thinking of switching from ICU to L&D. The hyper-vigilance and anxiety for 12 hours is my biggest concern, on top of working nights. I appreciate your honesty there. I also would like to add that trauma in the hospital settings obviously happens to patients, but as a nurse please don’t discount the things you’ve seen and experienced just because it didn’t directly happen to you. Support the patient in that moment, but care for yourself and feel those feelings later. We see the best and worst sides of humanity as nurses, but our experiences count too.
I agree with the lack of information with Inductions. I would always give them a real rundown of how things usually go and ease their comfort by answering every question they had!
Having my 3rd baby this summer, I cannot wait to do it again!!! L&D staff are my favorite and helped make my experience amazing. Plus I have an amazing OB. Y’all are awesome
You are the best!!! Thank you Amy. Always adding your knowledge to my tool belt. You’re an incredible nurse with a HUGE heart.
I appreciate that you tried your best to not cause a trauma to the mother as I had a nurse do something to me that still is upsetting 29 years later and I won't ever forget.
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Thank you so much for keeping it real and giving details that I haven't heard or seen anywhere else. How dispiriting to hear about partners who have their headphones in. And I totally relate to the notion of birth trauma. I got to see the best and the worst of it. The best: I was hospitalized on bedrest with complications during my pregnancy in a tiny Catholic hospital in rural Wisconsin, and it was a wonderful experience - the best healthcare experience I've ever had, better than the care I've since received in a other world-class research hospitals. The nurses clearly enjoyed each other and enjoyed the patients. You could tell it was a fabulous place to work, and those nurses represented some of the best of humanity that I've ever seen in my life. I used to chat with them about their family lives (one of them, a fifth generation Wisconsinite ("Sconnie"), confided in me that her Brazilian husband's teen daughter from a prior marriage was skipping school and getting into trouble constantly back home in Sao Paolo, so her Brazilian mom was sending her to live with her dad in rural Wisconsin in the middle of winter to "straighten her out!" We laughed nervously at what the girl would think about Wisconsin winters, and brainstormed how to make her arrival less traumatic for everyone in the family, new siblings included).
But then... I ended up delivering my baby in a different larger hospital. Totally different culture. Much more tense and cold. The nurses who attended to me didn't seem to enjoy being there. People were rushed and snappy. I remember one nurse making me cry by scolding me that I was tensing up too much to allow my baby to latch. Breastfeeding was so incredibly painful to me, and having the nurse scold me "he's not going to be able to latch if you tense up every time!" only made me cry harder. I was never able to breastfeed properly after that, despite pumping and seeing several lactation consultants, and even though I know my medical history played a role in this, I will never forget how hopeless and sad I felt when that nurse scolded me that night. For her it was probably just a nuisance to see me being incompetent in the middle of her busy and stressful shift, but for me as a first-time mom recovering from a complex C section, it was devastating. So thank you so much for prioritizing patients' experiences and making them feel valued, especially about breastfeeding. You've made a lot of difference in their lives.
I loved being induced for my first!!! Your labor and delivery experience is really made by how amazing your nurses are!!! I am so grateful for mine. Thank you for sharing this. In another life I will be an L+D nurse ;)
It's so crazy that even though Ive worked telemetry/cardiac surgery, I have so many similar struggles. Nursing is SO HARD to deal with emotionally especially when you get close to the patient. I am still grieving the loss of some patients that shouldn't have died or went so suddenly. Its the hardest thing. I start in labor and delivery in two weeks and am very nervous about it.
Hey I’m interested in cardiac/telemetry Rn than an postpartum RN what’s ur day to day like at that job
@@salma31000 sure! Generally 4-5 patients on nights. You have to analyze tele strips, lots of lasix (CHF), chest tubes, amiodarone/dilt drips, monitoring blood pressures, and a fair amount of rapid responses/code blues.
Hey! I was a nurse on a cardiac stepdown unit for 2.5 years before transferring to L&D a few months ago. It is hard and stressful and you will feel like a new grad all over again. But I have loved it and do not regret it one bit. Ask tons of questions and during your orientation get as much experience as you can. For example if your patient is stable but there is something going on in another room ask your preceptor and that nurse if its ok if you go in and help or even just watch while your preceptor watches your patient. I did that a lot and it helped me get lots of exposure to different things. Good luck and definitely make sure you have some healthy ways to decompress when you are off!
@@jessicarn3916 thanks so much for the advice! I'm very excited.
@@animaloverdani10 Or u marriad ❤❤😍😍🌷🌷
Love your channel just got hired on to l & d & I’m so excited. Have always been interested in aesthetics so I appreciate you sharing your journey
I got hired as a new grad L&D nurse. I just left after 6 months and moved to M&B. The anxiety was the worst part, I kept having anxiety attacks and depressive episodes. I couldn't sleep well when I had to work that night. I was emotionally done and I had to get out.
I had a very similar experience. I’m glad you got out!
I’m in your same boat, 6 months in and am so overwhelmed. I’m glad you made it out!
Hi Brynne, is there anyway I could email you? I’m a m&b nurse looking to move to L&d but I’m just so too nervous to officially make the decision without some advice
What is M&B ?
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This is such an informative video. It's on point! Thank you 😊
I just started nursing school and was torn between ER and labor and delivery. As a cna I did a lot of post mortems with geriatric patients and wanted to work with the opposite end of the spectrum and see people coming into the world as opposed to the old age endings. I wanted a challenge and something stressful. As you were talking about your cons, I thought I would enjoy the challenge of them. I am a very empathetic person so dealing with miscarriages and mother deaths might be hard for me at first, but I'm sure with time and experience I can be that support that someone needs. I hope to go into L&D immediately after nursing school and maybe a year after have a child of my own. I worry about being a new L&D nurse having never had a birth or seen one at all.
I agree when babies are delivered and not doing well its hard not to feel bad..even when they looked good all night..L and D is definitely stressful at times..nights are hard on me but nught nurses are helpful and I feel supported. I had alot going on in personal life and considered leaving but im going to give it 1.5 -2 yrs..at that point i will feel more competent and i could switch to a day line.
I am just starting my nurse residency for L&D. I have the same fear about birth trauma to the Mom. I don’t want to be that nurse. I am blessed to work on a unit that has an 1:1 ratio and float nurses that are scheduled just to cover breaks and anytime you need to be away. I love your videos and I hope I can be half the nurse you are. 💜
Not a nurse, however I am an esthetician excited to see how it goes! Although I do enjoy videos about this. Your channel overall is just my vibe :)
Or u marriad .??
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I worked L&D for a year and moved on to dermatology too
I’m an experienced PP RN and finally now being trained to L&D. Still early in my training and all your points are so spot on and exactly my sentiments. Lots of high stress and anxiety and it also doesnt help my unit is toxic either. I see you transitioned to aestetics which is another area I’m interested in. Best of luck!
Just got hired as nurse extern on postpartum unit until I pass my NCLEX. Sooo excited! ♥
So excited for you! 🥰
@@AmyBales, been binge watching your videos. Love them!!
This helped me a lot I have summer and fall left of general studies in college. I still can’t decide which program I want to do. Whether it’s sonography or nursing. I really want to be a labor and delivery nurse, but needed to know the pros and cons. So thank you very much !!
Hey what did u end up picking? I’m in the same boat I don’t know what to chose:/
Agree with everything you said 100%, love the happy moments but hate the constant anxiety
you sound like an amazing nurse!! i hope mine are as great as you when i give birth next month!
Awe!!!! I am in nursing school- done in sept, and I was strongly considering post partum!! But after watching this I am sort of reconsidering!! I truly trust and value your feedback.
It’s such an amazing area to work, if I went back I’d probably do postpartum for a bit instead of labor. It’s seriously so special helping these new moms, but not for the faint of heart!
You’ll be an amazing preceptor !!
i always try to set realistic expectations with epidurals. I don't know where these primes get this idea that they're going to feel no sensations when they birth, or when they're shocked how long they can push for, this baby isn't going to just emerge from you (unless you're a mulltip)
I have worked in pediatric home care as a lpn for 6 years now. I am going back for my rn starting in august. L&D babies and parents feels like something in the same general feel of where I am coming from just entirely different nursing skills hopefully school will give me plus hoping to score a new grad residency position in it.
Lol is that a dryer in the background? Truly relatable
I think so 😅
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Hey! I'd like to hear why you left L&D? Was it the reasons that you didn't love it ? Or was there more too it ?
The video games I cannot. I don't see a good future for those families like if they are that disconnected now- how will you parent? Smh.
I think the epidural meaning no pain is culturally very common even though it is unrealistic!!! Like showing up to run a marathon when the furthest you've run is a block.... That's gonna hurt, you have to train.
My friend had an amazing nurse for daytime but a new insecure nurse when she arrived middle of the night who couldn't get IV (and wouldn't ask someone else to try)- I don't think the woman had embraced some fake it till you make it energy.
I couldn't participate in the interventions that are done for litigation reasons for that department.
I'm so glad you got out - worrying constantly is unhealthy.
Quick video? do you still like your cats' water fountain? Thank You! Just discovered you, your story telling is so so good.
Hi I am a new grad looking for some advice. I always wanted to work in OB. When I was a senior I had the director of my nursing program tell me that I should not do postpartum nursing because I will lose all my skills and that I should just do med-surg for a year to keep my skills from school.
I want to work in women's health, so med-surg never interested me in the clinical aspect, but I have been getting told by classmates that I should not do postpartum/antepartum, but instead I should do L&D because there is more adrenaline there. My personality usually works well with knowing how to plan my day and anticipate the routine tasks for my patients, and how to recognize changes which are warning flags in order to help them. I am in no way an adrenaline junkie, but I am nervous because of hearing these things. I did my preceptorship in L&D and I had a bad experience, not because of the patients, but I had really mean nurses. I liked the postpartum side when I was briefly able to go over there, but I could not see much because the L&D nurses seemed to hate that side and talk about them for some reason \_O_/...
Long story short, I wanted to ask if I should take a mother&baby/antepartum unit offer, at the risk of being fearful to "lose my skills and be bored", or just go with my L&D offer, so that I can "have more skills and excitement", as people keep saying to me. I feel like my heart is in mother/baby, but I do not want to ruin my career, if my only experience in postpartum and maybe that looks bad in the nursing world, especially since I never did med-surg and lost out on clinical time due to covid.
Sorry for the long comment, if you made it this far thanks for reading my message! I'd appreciate hearing your opinion!
I hate when the older nurses tell the new nurses you have to start in medsurg for the skills. No, no you don't. If you know you'll hate med surg than why put yourself through that when you know in the end you want to be in a diff specialty. Having worked in postpartum/Antepartum I can say medsurg doesnt prepare you for postpartum because they have their own skills. You dont lose your skills but rather have different skills. With the shortage of nursing I bet if you decide to switch out of postpartum they will train you for any other unit. Sure L&d is where stuff can go wrong, adrenaline, but it isnt for everyone.
I personally switched from postpartum to L&d after a few months mainly because I wanted to switch hospitals and that was what was available. I personally prefer L&d because of the 1:1 but it isnt for everyone. I have friends who tell me they could never do L&d because they like a structured day, so postpartum is their jam. Knowing that you were exposed to both sides, it is clear what you prefer so go with what you like. And if you ever want to switch you can.
Hope this helped. If you want to see a post comparing L&d and postpartum pros and cons you can see my post on Instagram @nurse.success
I am literally in the same boat as you. People have told me the same thing about working med surg but I have decided to make MYSELF happy and do postpartum or labor and delivery because I worked hard for my degree and no one else did it for me. If I'm going to be working 12 hrs a day, which is literally half a day away from my family, I'm going to enjoy what I do. Best of luck to you! Do what your heart desires.
@@cookingsmart1235 OMG thank you so much for your reply. I seriously appreciate your perspective and advice cause you have all the experience in fields I am interested in. I will definitely be checking out that post. Thank you again!
@@Gabby-gg4vd Thank you girl! I am happy this new generation of nurses are taking full control of their degrees and license, cause like you said: we did work hard! I knew from the very moment of me beginning school I wanted to be in OB, I just had to go through with the other classes to come full circle to have the requirements to be a RN in the US. It can be discouraging when you have these experienced nurses tell you how you will "ruin your career, or lose skills", but I am learning to do what makes me feel fulfilled. Nursing is hard, so we should choose our hard! If I was a patient I would want a nurse who is passionate about their specialty, so in the end, its going to benefit the people we care for too!
@@breatenneisues4260 Absoultely!!
I'm about to have my 4th c section in a few weeks.
I hope everything went smoothly
@@urbanrealism237 Yes it did. Was the easiest one by far weirdly enough. My son is 5 weeks now.
That’s who it is! You look like Betty Cooper from Riverdale even your voice is familiar like hers.
Have u ever travel nurse?
Wait, why did you leave L&D? Just curious, I'm a new subscriber, so I didn't know you moved to a different department. And I'm considering becoming a nurse specifically to work in L&D (or maybe postpartum or NICU, but I'm thinking L&D.) So, I'm interested in why you decided to move into something else.
I actually just made a video about it, but pretty much for everything I said at the end of this video and because the job I started here in California wasn’t a good fit, so I chose to seek out other options and found aesthetic nursing!
@@AmyBales Sorry, I just found that video after asking this, but then asked you a different question on that one >.< I live in Florida so hopefully/maybe some of the issues you ran into in CA won't be a thing here, but who knows. I know there's a big difference in how (at least some) things work just between the public hospital where I live (It's called Halifax, but a lot of people call it "Killifax," so you can imagine, it doesn't have the best reputation in some areas anyway, and their ER is a DISASTER) and the private/Christian hospital system here. Same city, state, etc., but the two main hospitals are quite different. So, I can imagine moving to a totally different state that things could be quite a culture shock/different way of doing things. I hope you like the new job or find one you do if you don't, you seem really sweet and I can tell you're a good nurse, and we need as many as we can get. I've had horrendous experiences w/ healthcare workers, so it makes me really happy when I see people like you that you can tell are good nurses/doctors/etc.