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  1. RN - Relocating to Douglasville Ga

    What type of nursing job are you looking
  2. suburban hospitals?

    I live in the far southwestern side of the county so it takes me 40-50 minutes to get to work on a good day. I know that sounds like a long time, but you get used to it living in Atlanta. Plus I...
  3. suburban hospitals?

    Prinzess, I just might be able to answer this one... I live in Douglasville and work in the NICU at Cobb. We're level III and transport out all surgeries to Scottish Rite or Eggleston. Don't know...
  4. Discharge teaching

    We tended to have the same problem with the "last day teaching" and found it to be extremely overwhelming for the parents. We've been working on it hard and have just added a "To Do" checklist for the...
  5. Press Gainey AARRGGHH

    I don't know how it is in other states, but here in Georgia now, Medicaid/Medicare has added their own set of questions to the PG surveys, and they're basing their reimbursements on the...
  6. Sugesstions on how to anchor UVC/UAC lines

    BBG, we use the hydrocolloid gold hearts and put a hat
  7. Cath UA on a preemie

    Or a 5Fr feeding tube if you have
  8. Securing OGTs

    My thoughts exactly Gompers. We use the green tubes too, but change them every 3 days. A product rep for the 30 day tubes showed me something on the green tubes I'd never noticed before. There are...
  9. If I can't have NICU...

    You will surely learn alot in any of those units that could apply to the NICU. I worked in a PedsER for a few years when I became burned out after 9 years in the NICU, and I felt like I had never...
  10. Poster ideas for the NICU?

    NICU_Nurse, if you're seriously interested in doing a poster on car seats, I can help you out with some great websites. We redid our parent teaching notebook on car seats a couple of months ago and I...
  11. Sugesstions on how to anchor UVC/UAC lines

    Oh, you're going to love, love, LOVE the Giraffe beds!!! After I said this I remembered there is one drawback...those darn temp probes! They're a little stiffer than the disposable ones we use on...
  12. vein viewer

    We use the transilluminator attachment on the bili blankets all the time for IV lines/PICCs or to transilluminate a chest. I will say it kind of ruins you after you get used to using it. One of our...
  13. NICU positions in GA?- What's up??

    Jennica, if you're still job hunting, what part of Atlanta do you live
  14. companies that manufacture neonatal products!

    A couple more to add Respironics/Children's Medical Ventures: http://chmv.respironics.com/ Specialty Medical Products:
  15. omphalocele baby

    We've seen a marked increase in belly defect babies here, 6 gastros in a 2 or 3 week period during the spring. The genetisists are finding a link between belly defects and meth use, which is also...