aimeern33

aimeern33 specializes in Neonatal ICU.

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1. Are You still footprinting infants in delivery for identification?

   aimeern33 posted a topic in Safety

   We are footprinting our infants in the delivery for identification in the event of an abduction. We also fingerprint mom. This is sometimes difficult during a section as mom is strapped down and draped. Is this something everybody is doing or are we...

2. IV Filters on all fluids for neonates???

   aimeern33 posted a topic in NICU

   We are talking about no longer using a 0.22 micron filter on our IV fluids for our neonates. We currently filter all fluids except lipids, insulin and prostaglandins. I have been told we are one of the only NICU's still filtering our fluids. I won...

3. Private rooms for NICU babies

   aimeern33 replied to FemmeRN's topic in NICU

   My hospital is in the process fo building a new building with some private rooms. The thing I dread is that the parents of our babies will most likely see it as an opportunity to move in, I do not want to walk in on them when they are having some "p...

4. Rifampin clotting PICC lines

   aimeern33 replied to aimeern33's topic in NICU

   yes, the rifampin is for a mrsa positive blood culture and the baby is going to be on it for 30 days. The NNP even tried running a heparin drip with the med to prevent the problem and of course that did not work as the problem is not a blood clot bu...

5. Did you hear this about Medicaid?

   aimeern33 replied to BittyBabyGrower's topic in NICU

   They are no longer going to pay for many things other than CR-BSI's. The fear is that private insurance companies will follow suit and do the same. I am trying to introduce a new IV catheter tip that Vanderbuilt and Duke are starting to use hospita...

6. Rifampin clotting PICC lines

   aimeern33 posted a topic in NICU

   Is anyone else having a problem with rifampin clotting off their picc lines? We had a picc that had only been in for a day clot off during the rifampin infusion. One of the NNP's that I work with said she has seen this in the past and even seen it ...

7. New Dual Lumen PICCs

   aimeern33 replied to SteveNNP's topic in NICU

   I spoke with the company about our problem with infiltration and they said that you have to thread the catheter very slowly at small increments especially on micropreemies to avoid nicking the side of the vessel. She also recommended warming the vei...

8. Withdrawal of blood from piccs

   aimeern33 replied to cannulation's topic in Infusion

   I agree it depends on the size of the PICC a neonatal PICC is only a 1.9FR so you are not allowed to draw labs or infuse blood with these lines. The CICU in our hospital has a tendency to disregard this policy when they care for cardiac babies, and ...

9. New Dual Lumen PICCs

   aimeern33 replied to SteveNNP's topic in NICU

   We started using them several months ago and the nurses on my PICC team are still mad at me for switching from the BD PICC. This catheter is much stiffer and they feel is more difficult to thread past the shoulder. We also seem to be having more in...