NICUnurseKatie

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1. Funny Names

   NICUnurseKatie replied to nurserynurse55's topic in NICU

   My new personal favorite...La-A pronounced "LaDasha"

2. Enteral Feed Tubing

   NICUnurseKatie replied to NICU Mama's topic in NICU

   We use children's medical ventures products from Phillips and they work great...the tubing itself is orange and the male end will not hook up to any IV. The female end will accept our BD syringes.

3. Managing O2 changes in preemie

   NICUnurseKatie replied to twizzlers67's topic in NICU

   We follow the COMP-ROP for our sat limits and I feel like sometimes they are too restricting on our teeny ones. Our common-sense MD will immediately order sats to be 75-92% and q6hour touch times. I feel that with tight limits you're constantly adj...

4. Sali-wipes for Eyecare?

   NICUnurseKatie posted a topic in NICU

   I was just curious on everyone's protocols for eye care in the preemies. We have sterile Sali-wipes and most of the nurses use those. But according to our skin team, repeated use of the Sali-wipes can clog the tear ducts and cause eye drainage. We ha...

5. isolette humidity

   NICUnurseKatie replied to jscrn's topic in NICU

   Sedation!! No I'm just kidding, but seriously, we have started placing a large tegaderm on the micropreemies chest and it is working wonders with skin issues. we place under everything so there is no breakdown from UAC holders, leads, temp probes, ...

6. pins and rubberbands for CPAP

   NICUnurseKatie replied to uma1ashok's topic in NICU

   Do you ever have issues with the white plastic part sliding around and coming into contact with the baby's forehead? A couple of our babies ended up with scars on their foreheads from people not readjusting this piece. We trained everyone and we do...

7. isolette humidity

   NICUnurseKatie replied to jscrn's topic in NICU

   We just re-vamped our humidity protocol to go along with the NANN guidelines. We begin humidity at around 65-75% or per MD order. Then it is slowly weaned. It is turned off by DOL 10. There is actually research stating that after the tenth day of...

8. Funny Names

   NICUnurseKatie replied to nurserynurse55's topic in NICU

   I don't know if this has been mentioned yet...but does anyone else notice a trend in combining the Mother and Father's name to make baby's name? This is unreal to me. The first one we had was, Hermeliz Dad: Herman Mom: Elizabeth Just awful! There h...

9. pins and rubberbands for CPAP

   NICUnurseKatie replied to uma1ashok's topic in NICU

   We currently use the infant flow cpap from Viasys. The headgear is amazing. It's the best I've ever worked with. There does need to be some education about positioning the headgear because we've had a skin breakdown issue. But this could have been...