I just started a new job in L&D and the NICU is next door so we walked through on my tour.
It's a 36 bed level III NICU. It felt empty! Entire rooms were empty. I would guess there were about 12 babies there. Is this common?
This particular NICU is across the street from a level IV NICU affiliated with a children's hospital. They also have an L&D floor. I wonder if most of the high risk births in the area end up going across the street because of the higher level NICU, leaving ours half empty most of the time.
I want to work NICU someday and I'm trying to decide which one would be a better one to start at.
(Though I know the answer is whichever offers me a job :))
