NICURN9

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1. NICU Nurses I need some help please

   NICURN9 replied to settingsail's topic in NICU

   Wow! How unfair for those parents. Nothing like adding to their stress. Our multiples are always in the same room unless one of them get an infectious disease and needs to be isolated or something similar. They are not neccessarily side-by-side bu...

2. Respect from docs?

   NICURN9 posted a topic in NICU

   I am so glad I found this board. It's nice to hear what it is like elsewhere. I have worked in our NICU for 8 years and I LOVE my job. I am only PRN now because I adopted a short-gut child from our unit and he had a small intestine and liver tra...

3. Dopamine/Dobutamine

   NICURN9 replied to NICURN9's topic in NICU

   Well....thanks for the insight. I guess it isn't all that unusual just not OUR policy. As for tissue necrosis....never really had a problem with it. We watch these IV sites like hawks and babies who are on dop/dob are usually kids who have a nur...

4. Holiday Pay

   NICURN9 replied to aktransplant's topic in General Nursing

   Double time if you work the actual holiday...nothing for the "eve"

5. Dopamine/Dobutamine

   NICURN9 posted a topic in NICU

   Hi. I am just looking for some different perspectives here. What is your hospital policy for using Dopamine and/or Dobutamine as far as piggy-backing, flushing and what sites to use? I have been a NICU nurse for 8 years. I am PRN now and things ...