 All right, what's up you guys, Sedona? So I wanted to talk to you guys about my first week on the job as an official OBPA. So that's what this video is about. So if you're interested in that, stay tuned because the video is gonna start in one second. What's up you guys, it's Sedona. Welcome back to my channel. So as I told you guys last week, I had some big news to share. I'm officially like primarily an OBGYNPA. Specifically, I work inpatient. So just transition from being a trauma PA at my hospital to being an OBGYNPA primarily. So what do I mean by primarily? I still have my delegation agreement with trauma so I can still pick up trauma shifts, which I intend on doing. I actually did some shifts early in the month of October because I wanna keep my skills because I've learned so much on trauma. And I think that it's important for you guys to understand the flexibility that you have when you are a PA and especially a PA in a particular hospital system. So I'll still be picking up trauma shifts. I'll still be doing my chest tubes and lines and keeping those skills, but at the same time catching babies and holding little babies and smelling their little baby smells. I'm so excited you guys. And so I wanted to talk to you guys about my first week as an OBGYNPA. So I officially started last week on my own as a big girl OBPA. And it's been pretty cool. I'm getting to learn my nurses and they're cool and nice. And I miss my trauma nurses, but I still go down there and check in on them and see how they're doing. But I'm getting to learn the OB nurses and my scrub texts and things like that because the labor and delivery mother baby floor is pretty much a closed floor. So the same people work in the various different areas. So you'll have like the same nurses coming, just like how you kind of have the same nurses on like the med-surge units, the same nurses on that floor. And then we have our own OR, we have two ORs on that floor. So the same like scrub texts and circulator nurses and things like that work on various different days to just switch out shifts. So we get to kind of like learn them and hopefully, you know, become like a lot of family, you know, so hopefully they like me as much as I like them, you know, and it's a good relationship. So they like that. But you'll get to learn them and know them. And so it's cool like just kind of getting to learn everybody and also like the attending. So I do a lot of C-sections and then GYN surgeries. That's mainly what the OBPAs do. And then we also field a lot of the, really all of the consults. And so with that being said, I still get to see like trauma in OB, but specifically OB related trauma, right? So if somebody come in and came in and they were in a motor vehicle accident, but they're pregnant, they'll call like an OB stat from the trauma bay and we'll come down and assess like feudal movement, the mom. And then the trauma team will have to clear like the mother from a trauma standpoint and then we'll take her up to the OB floor. So I haven't seen that as an OBPA, but I've done that as a trauma PA. So I don't really foresee it being too significantly different, obviously, but it's gonna be interesting when that happens. Actually, I did see it once there was an OB stat and we like delivered the baby in the ED, which was crazy. But yeah, so that was one thing. She's like, oh my gosh, I feel like coming and then the baby was like there. So that was actually pretty cool. But she was an OB stat not from a trauma standpoint. So that's one thing that I haven't seen from the OBGYN side. My day starts off a little bit later than it did with trauma. So I start off around like eight o'clock in terms of like sign out, table rounds with the attendings. And then I go and I round on my patients after table rounds because there are gonna be patients that may wanna leave early. There are gonna be patients that we've been managing like blood pressures for because something that we're like always looking for and like trying to be acutely aware of is like preeclampsia, afterbirth and also like antipartum. So postpartum and antipartum like preeclampsia is like a thing, right? Like hyper, extreme hypertension. So we look at all of those we're monitoring like blood pressures and things like that. So that's something that we're always like very acutely aware of. So I wanna go round on my patients. And then from there we have like another round because we wanna see like, okay, who's laboring? Who may need surgery? Who's coming in for a schedule surgery? Those are all things that I need to be aware of because my services might be needed at that time. And then from that, it's really just kind of like going through your day to day stuff like your writing notes and then fielding consults. And so it's pretty much very similar to trauma in that you have to round on your patients on the floor. You have to like follow up with like dressing changes and those various different things, you know monitoring H and H's and labs and making sure that everybody's like doing well on a daily basis and preparing people for discharge. But at the same time, you know you're in surgery a little bit more than you are on the trauma team because with trauma we were a heavily ran resident. I would say specialty. And so they were in all of like the daytime surgeries and those surgeries are in the main OR. So there are lots of like first assist down there helping them out as well. So from a trauma PA standpoint we didn't really go to the OR that often unless it was at night when we didn't have a resident or we had a lot of traumas or something like that. So that was like something that I've noticed that's a little bit different but at the same time there are so many similarities. So I'm not really missing a step at all and I'm getting like all of like the cute babies. One thing that is definitely different is like your clientele or like the patients that you're seeing. So a lot of the patients that I'm seeing are pretty much like healthy, you know? And so for the most part like they're very much ready to leave and they're not spending a significant amount of time with our service like they did on trauma. So I would have patients that I saw in trauma like for months, you know, weeks on hand because there are various different barriers to like throughput and discharge from like ED to home. But with my OBPA is like, with my OB patients they come in and it's like, all right, cool. I'm here, I have my baby, I'm postpartum day one. And then on postpartum day two, you go home or I'm post-op day two and I'm post-op day three they go home and some people like actually like if they're doing well, their pain is controlled they're feeling good. Like they get to go home on like postpartum day one or post-op day two. So it's pretty interesting. It's nice like seeing the various different dynamics like I will try to give you guys like a, you know day in the life kind of follow through from like start to finish on what I do because I still do 24-hour shifts, which again, I love. And so that is very, very, very, very, very beneficial to me and my life and the lifestyle that I'm going to custom to with like my family and stuff. So just being able to spend time with family but yet still get that healthcare bug fixed is really, really good. And so I just want to like talk to you guys about that and just show you guys that there is a space for you guys in healthcare in various different capacities depending on where you want to be. Look at me, I'm both trauma and OB. I can fulfill both of those desires at the same time while, you know, taking care of my mental health and my mental self as well. And that's something that you all can do as well, but specifically in this profession if there are areas that you're interested in and, you know, you want to kind of get a break from something but still hold on to it, there is a space for you. So hopefully this video was a little bit enlightening. I will put out a video about my last trauma shift. I made a video about that. I just haven't edited it yet. So I will do that for you guys. And then I will work on getting you a video of a day in the life of an OVPA who is me and we'll see all the things that I hopefully can be able to show you guys. And then I'm gonna be doing a little bit more education on like OB related or women's health related things because I've seen a lot already just in like the few weeks that I've been shadowing and then, you know, the week that I've been working. So, you know, good stuff for you guys to kind of be aware of when going to the hospital as a woman, okay? So stay tuned for all of that. 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