melissah

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1. CPAP and septal necrosis

   melissah replied to melissah's topic in NICU

   It's not only reduction in NICU costs, but reduction in morbidity-- less PICU admissions. Average length of stay decrease, from what I found in the research, is 10 days!!!

2. Indications for PICC insertion

   melissah replied to melissah's topic in NICU

   Thanks for the input!

3. Indications for PICC insertion

   melissah posted a topic in NICU

   Does anybody work in a hospital with a protocol for PICC insertion? The hospital that I work in does not, and many of the nurses are frustrated b/c by the time we "get" to put a PICC in most of the babies veins are blown. I am working on establishing...

4. CPAP and septal necrosis

   melissah replied to melissah's topic in NICU

   Thanks to everyone for responding so quickly! Today I went to work and was surprised to find a rep scheduled to meet with me about a new CPAP system that we may be trialling! It is brand new (released for use about one month ago) and so far we are th...

5. CPAP and septal necrosis

   melissah posted a topic in NICU

   Recently my institution started to use more CPAP (We are still stuck in the days of intubating everyone). We also switched our prongs from nasal-pharyngeal that had to be taped, to the nasal cannula with the full head gear (Yeah!). While the nurses l...

6. does hypoxia hurt

   melissah replied to likeminz's topic in NICU

   Hello, I'm new to this forum as well and a fairly new grad. I can not believe that you are not being offered an orientation to a unit like the NICU. Our policy is 12 weeks for new hires w/o NICU exp. and almost the same for new hires with exp. depend...

7. blankets

   melissah replied to aggiernwannabe's topic in NICU

   We use all sizes of covers. Materials have ranged from flannels to cottons. We do not use any materials that have loose fibers directly on the infant (flannel blankets or crib covers). The volunteers have done a great job. The community support from ...