Oh Rachel, you make some of us GREEN with envy.  In the litigious US, all
vital signs, fundal height and bottoms  are checked each shift! To fail to
do so  is a major error!  Babies are done q. shift for vitals.  There is so
much paperwork that it is truly incredible.  The saying is "if you don't
write it, you didn't do it" !!!!!!  I'm not sure of mother/baby pair pt
ratio now, maybe someone will  fill us in.  Beds are changed daily by
nursing aides, if you have an aide.  The whole atmosphere is so different,
probably why LCs are so needed in US hospitals,    jobs are so
comparmentalized. There is so  much that is mandated, that there isn't much
time for niceties of "being a nurse."    Sincerely, Pat in SNJ

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