NICUDad

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1. Folks coming into the USA to have babies

   NICUDad replied to chescat58, RNC-NIC's topic in NICU

   This is true for us, too. Half of our census is usually Hispanic.

2. Folks coming into the USA to have babies

   NICUDad replied to chescat58, RNC-NIC's topic in NICU

   It's almost a loaded question, isn't it? Working in a Texas NICU, we get many parents coming across the border into the US to have their babies, in addition to many illegal immigrants already here having their babies here as well. Plain and simple, i...

3. NICU NURSES....labeling breast milk???

   NICUDad replied to schoolnurseadmin's topic in NICU

   Our NICU has parents label their own milk with time and date on patient labels we provide for them. All our babies have 2 patient identifiers (per JCAHO) in the forms of bands. The nurse will verify with another RN at the baby's bedside when milk i...

4. "What's with all the men in the NICU lately?"

   NICUDad replied to Bortaz's topic in NICU

   Nursing student in the NICU here, and working in the nICU as a HUC for the last 7 years. Myself being a male, I am one of three total men on the unit. The other 2 are male nurses. One night shift, one day shift. We have a total nursing staff of a...

5. neonatal websites

   NICUDad replied to Humbled_Nurse's topic in NICU

   Sometimes it is hard to find good NICU sites. As a nursing student who also works in the NICU, I feel it is good to have a solid NICU resource list. Here are my top NICU websites: NeonatalICU.com - Collective resource on NICU criteria and general inf...