Deidre Shiobhan

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1. Facebook almost cost me my job

   Deidre Shiobhan replied to ReginaPhalange's topic in Relations

   Keep Facebook only for personal social networking usage and never ever include our job info, worst of all patients' info!! I believe that nothing is ever 100% secure and there are plenty of hackers around the world. Well one may think that hospitals'...

2. Do you use oxyhoods?

   Deidre Shiobhan replied to NeoPediRN's topic in NICU

   Yes my unit still do infact the humidifier that we are currently using is not going to be manufacture anymore. We are soucing for vendor to see how we can settle this issue.

3. Any 22 weekers out there?

   Deidre Shiobhan replied to mauigal's topic in NICU

   Yes tralalaRN there's always another side, it's not perfect all the time. I feel that we must paint a realistic picture and not just give parents false hope. We cannot play GOD all the time!!:bowingpur

4. Any 22 weekers out there?

   Deidre Shiobhan replied to mauigal's topic in NICU

   we don't resus any babies below gestation age of 23 weeks because these babies are usually non viable at birth. parents will be spoken too and pregnancy will be prolonged for as long as possible. personally i feel that having worked as an nicu nurse ...

5. Stimulation for older babies?

   Deidre Shiobhan replied to NICU_Nurse's topic in NICU

   Do you have music therapist? I've tried getting the MT to sing to my longstayer baby and he loves it. Her voice is great! Besides entertaining the baby, we nurses in the clinical area find it very therapeutic, help us to destressing and pleasant too.

6. nursing its what you make it

   Deidre Shiobhan replied to vicnurse's topic in General Nursing

   The words that you've mentioned are very encouraging. It just reminded me why I wanted to be a nurse, nursing has always been my ambition since young. Nurses in the past wore only white uniform and caps though the design and colour have changed a gre...

7. Do Nurses Eat Their Young?

   Deidre Shiobhan replied to Brian's topic in Relations

   I strongly agree that many other factors contribute to nursing shortage but not just based on how we treat one another. I've left nursing before but decided to come back cos I've never forgotten the reason why I wanted to be a nurse in the beginning ...

8. Youngest preemies

   Deidre Shiobhan replied to Ozboy's topic in NICU

   Theorethically infants born below 23 weeks gestation are not viable at all unless the dates are wrong, we don't resus infants born below 23wks in my unit. Between 23 and 24wks is a grey area we'll counsel parents and provide resuscitation unless pare...

9. Most RN's first borns?

   Deidre Shiobhan replied to lvs2nrs3535's topic in General Nursing

   Yap 1st born but definitely not from a dysfunction family, interesting theory though.

10. Nurses with tattoos

    Deidre Shiobhan replied to Kshel's topic in General Nursing

    You may have problem getting into nursing school however even if you are able to disguise it during the interview. There may be problems with future employment the place that I work in will not accomodate visible tattoos. I've got nursing colleagues ...

11. Looking down on those who take lunch breaks???

    Deidre Shiobhan replied to mismissy69's topic in General Nursing

    Well all of us deserve a break! Just make sure our work is settled and your colleague is around to monitor your patients while you are away. The only issue is when we are really tight and busy, we take shorter breaks. We give and take:doh:

12. working thru lunch

    Deidre Shiobhan replied to dalegirl's topic in General Nursing

    No matter how busy we are, we still deserve a break to recharge ourselves. Just hand over your work to her for the time while you are away.

13. Nurses struggling with mental illness

    Deidre Shiobhan replied to Severina's topic in Disabilities

    Delayed sleep syndrome - something that I've just discovered but it's a rather common problem. One feel tired but cant sleep , 2 of my colleagues are depressive 1 on regular meds but the other on and off. Tried talking to one of them for a long time ...

14. My little sweetie passed away.

    Deidre Shiobhan replied to Justhere's topic in Pediatric

    Penny you are great! That's wat nursing is all about the humanistic aspect, we just cant help getting attached to some of our patients. Just like the babies that I've nursed in my unit ( nicu ) I cant forget some of those even if they've gone for suc...

15. Bling on the job?

    Deidre Shiobhan replied to Haunted's topic in General Nursing

    I only wear my wedding band to work cos rings with stones or fanciful design are not allowed in my department ( I work in nicu ). However they always encourage us not to wear any jewelry if possible. I only wear my other diamond ring when I'm going o...