IvoryLena

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1. Do you filter trauma blood?

   IvoryLena replied to IvoryLena's topic in NICU

   How long does that generally take?

2. Do you filter trauma blood?

   IvoryLena replied to IvoryLena's topic in NICU

   No, I've never seen BB prepared syringes for neonates anywhere I've worked. I filter the blood into a syringe and generally run it over a pump or hand push if needed. But lately since attending some deliveries I noticed people drawing straight up fr...

3. Do you filter trauma blood?

   IvoryLena posted a topic in NICU

   In a code do you generally filter trauma blood or just pull it up straight from the bag and hand push it?

4. Short gut babies

   IvoryLena replied to LaNICUnurse's topic in NICU

   Ive read about a TPN that actually has saved many short gut kids. It's not as harmful to the liver, but we dont really use it in the USA unless the doctors really make a effort to get it. There's a handful of hospitals that use it, I think it's calle...

5. Smart pumps = Stupid pumps?

   IvoryLena posted a topic in NICU

   We have the smart pumps with the medication library in it, so it tells you the time/dose range for KG. We are required to use the med library rather then ML/HR on my unit. So My vent is this... nurses are putting up let's say a med that requires a ho...

6. HFJV vs. HFOV

   IvoryLena replied to Coffee Nurse's topic in NICU

   We use jets but rarely. All the babies I've seen on them have been close to term or term kids and have PIE or PPHN. More often they use for the PPHN and they add nitric. You also have the use the convetional vent along with it to give that big breath...

7. Preceptor woes

   IvoryLena replied to aerorunner80's topic in NICU

   Sometimes preceptors views are different from yours, no need to question yourself. My preceptor was horrible, so much so I had to ask to be switched half way in my training. Afterwards I found out I was the 4th person who asked to switch from her. So...

8. why bolus and bicarb?

   IvoryLena replied to IvoryLena's topic in NICU

   Thanks everybody, It makes more sense now.

9. why bolus and bicarb?

   IvoryLena replied to IvoryLena's topic in NICU

   Also, We were treating her just so she could get through the night so the family could see her in the AM. Fortunatly, she lasted untill the family got to say their goodbyes and then passed.

10. why bolus and bicarb?

    IvoryLena replied to IvoryLena's topic in NICU

    The Ph was changing from 7.0-7.1. She did have third spacing and she had no urine output. Her heart rate and blood pressure was fine. I just felt like, what is the point of filling this poor thing with more and more fluid. Not to mention she ordered ...

11. why bolus and bicarb?

    IvoryLena posted a topic in NICU

    I had a very sweet little baby who was born with gastoschesis, unfortunately, surgery was unable to do anything, so we were doing just comfort measures. she had severe acidosis so I was ordered to give 20 ml bolus(no change), then bicarb(slight chang...

12. Should I stay or should I go?

    IvoryLena posted a topic in Career Support

    Ok so I work on a mother/baby floor currently and have become increasingly bored with the work, this is the only nursing job I have ever had and have done it for a year and a half now. I applied at a different hospital that has a NICU internship prog...

13. Could I have done more?

    IvoryLena replied to IvoryLena's topic in NICU

    Thanks for responding and explaining things to me, I feel much better now. Baby is still in the NICU but doing MUCH better and I saw mom who is doing well too. I check on him everyshift I work. At first he was on an oscillator, I think thats what the...

14. Could I have done more?

    IvoryLena posted a topic in NICU

    Im a new nurse only three months exp on the floor of a low risk mother baby unit. I got a new admit to the floor a Csection mother and baby. Baby was checked out in NICU while mom came to me. After assessing mom I got baby from NICU, baby was pink, n...

15. Getting NCLEX Questions Identical to Studied Questions ????

    IvoryLena replied to JoAnna McNurse's topic in NCLEX

    I had one question that was pretty much identical to one I studied in Saunders, I was so happy, wish they were all like that hehe.:wink2: