JenKatt

JenKatt has 14 years experience and specializes in NICU, Informatics.

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1. VA Hiring Process

   JenKatt replied to wife&mommyRN's topic in Government

   Anyone have a contact number (outside the main HR number) at Haley?

2. VA Hiring Process

   JenKatt replied to wife&mommyRN's topic in Government

   Anyone apply for a non staff nurse position? I applied back on 2/12 for an Informatics position and am in limbo. It closed on the 20th, and now says complete (instead of pending HR speciailist). Wondering how different this hiring process might be th...

3. Help!

   JenKatt replied to JenKatt's topic in Informatics

   Thanks for the reply! I actually reworded the search last night and came upon some info on security and access given to users by an NI nurse. Yes my school does have a Phd program (I'm at Maryland). Here's the problem. I'm in Florida. I don't know an...

4. Help!

   JenKatt posted a topic in Informatics

   Hey ya'll, I'm new to the NI board and to NI. I've been a superuser in the past but just started 1. a heck of an NI job and 2. my MSN in NI. Anyways since I'm new to everything I'm in a quandary. For one thing I need to interview an NI nurse who has ...

5. Night shift nurses

   JenKatt replied to healinghand's topic in New Jersey

   I'm not in NJ anymore, but have worked every concievable shift and have found once you're on nights it's not so bad as long as you stick to it if possible on your days off. I really do get out by 6:15 (we work 6-6) usually earlier. I do stay awake us...

6. what is the normal urine output for neonate?

   JenKatt replied to epiphany's topic in NICU

   our hospital likes 2cc/kg/hr for 24 hours. once below that we start to look at it.

7. HOw often do you send twins home together?

   JenKatt replied to dawngloves's topic in NICU

   Before an infant can go home, often NICUs will have the parents sleep overnight at the hospital with the infant. This is to ensure that the parents are able to care for the infant and whatever medical needs it has, feeding, monitor, etc.

8. Where to work on west coast Florida???

   JenKatt replied to daiseesc's topic in Florida

   Just a word of warning. Your cut in pay will be painful!

9. Intraveneous Tubing changing. how often

   JenKatt replied to Donna1955's topic in NICU

   Our TPN/ IVF tibing is q72 hours, our lipids are q24 and most of our med tubing is q 72, bgut our PGE's are 48, milrinone q48. pretty much whenever a new syringe or new bag has to be hung, the tubing goes with.

10. HOw often do you send twins home together?

    JenKatt replied to dawngloves's topic in NICU

    I'd say 20% sounds right for twins and triplets. We had a rash of multiples not that long ago. only one set of twins went home together, the other 6 or 7 sets of 2 and 3 went home at different times.

11. broviac, who change the dressing?

    JenKatt replied to kaibigan's topic in NICU

    Every 48 hours? Seems a bit much. In your smaller kids, doesn't there skin getting eaten up with all of the changes? Our central line infection rate is also pretty respectable with a 7 day turn around on dressings.

12. ngt/ogt or none?

    JenKatt replied to kaibigan's topic in NICU

    Most of our bad gut kids get zantac in their TPN and reglan IV when they are placed on NPO. We also use sucrose in NPO kids unless it's a bad belly. Usually use the dip the pacifier method, but some of us do use a 1/2cc in a syringe coating the mouth...

13. FANNP Neonatal NP Symposium - review for boards

    JenKatt replied to Brownbetty's topic in NICU

    I live down here, our hospital is involved with the conference since we are the largest NICU in the area and have a ton of NNPs. I would get a rental. There is a Radisson directly across the street for the sheraton. There's a beach front shopping/ di...

14. broviac, who change the dressing?

    JenKatt replied to kaibigan's topic in NICU

    Since we're a dedicated children's hospital we have a lot more resources I think. Our broviac dressings are changed by our hospital IV team q7 days or PRN at the bedside nurses request. Our PICC and midline dsgs are changed by our unit PICC/ midline ...

15. Chest Tube Help please

    JenKatt replied to Taylor2ndB's topic in NICU

    We had a patient not that long ago who had a chest tube for months after a TE fistula repair. He had a chylothorax post op that would not heal and repeated surgery was not an option (it's a very long twisted story). So the little one wound up on Port...