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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
tracy6fan replied to elizabells's topic in NICU, Neonatal
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...
tracy6fan replied to NICU_Nurse's topic in NICU, Neonatal
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...
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...
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...
tracy6fan replied to elizabells's topic in NICU, Neonatal
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...