vintage_RN BSN, RN

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About vintage_RN

vintage_RN has 10 years experience as a BSN, RN and specializes in NICU.


I love tiny humans

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  1. vintage_RN

    Nurses make me sick

    me...on night shift...as I shove my 2nd slice of cold leftover pizza into my mouth at 1:53AM: "dude...settle down...."
  2. I started out in adult med-surg for 3 years and then went to the NICU. I'll never work with icky adults again!
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    Male Adult ICU Nurse Transition to NICU

    We have a few males in our NICU. I would suggest trying to get into a level 3 or higher NICU (I think you have level 4 in the states?) because you will see more critical babies and "true ICU" patients there. I would say generally it is a happy place....
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    Challenges of working in the NICU?

    My challenge may just be the place where I work and the culture. I came from adults where I did everything...IVs, venous draws, central line dressings, complex wound care etc. In the NICU I work in, you have to be selected to get trained to do IVs, o...
  5. This is a tough one...on one hand I can see her position...because I have felt that way and it isn't fun. I work in a large NICU, and it is very catty. There is a "cool girls group" like we're in high school that excludes others...it really makes for...
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    Charge RN

    Our charge RN does not take an assignment. We have 2 charge RN per shift (67 bed NICU)...they cant possibly take that many responsibilities effectively!
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    Orientation time?

    Our orientation is 30 shifts plus about 2 weeks of in class and some other education days mixed in (NICU)
  8. Its night shift and this is where my brain is going. Just some fun at 3AM... What are some common misconceptions and/or truths about your specialty, or that you have about other specialties? For example, people often think in the NICU we just hold, ...
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    When was your a-ha moment?

    I did a high school volunteer placement in the NICU, filing papers and whatnot. But I got to sit in on rounds and listen and see what it was like there. It made me want to be a nurse and work in the NICU. I worked with adult surgical patients for a f...
  10. Just curious as to the practice at other hospitals, whether this is standard or not. Here we do RSI (rapid sequence intubation) for all intubations....Atropine, Fentanyl and Rocuronium (or Succinylcholine if intubating for surfactant only) given prio...
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    Anyone from SickKids Hospital in Toronto?

    I work at another children's hospital in Ontario and we only hire RN's.
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    2 yrs CLABSI free

    We do all those same things as well. I was a little harsh with saying 45 days. Our longest ever was 130 days, which we just had another one so we're back to 0. I wonder what the variance is.
  13. I have to agree with what the others have said here. I understand how it can feel to be overwhelmed, and feel like there is no one supporting you. It isn't a good feeling. Your preceptors, experienced L&D nurses, have had concerns about your abil...
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    2 yrs CLABSI free

    What are you guys doing to go this long? We usually manage to make it around 45 days or so before we get another one
  15. vintage_RN

    Which Milk Warmer Do You Use?

    We use little plastic beakers with warm tap water, put the feed in a plastic bag into the beaker. We also have very high NEC rates. I don’t know what the correlation would be, as the feeds are prepared sterily in syringes for tube feeds and wouldn’t ...