Infant ID procedures

QTBabyNurse · Jun 04, 2008 09:21 AM

What is your hospital's procedure for banding newborns?

**Elvish** · Jun 04, 2008, 12:53 PM

We band them in L&D before baby ever leaves the room. The bands have Mom's name and MR#, sex of baby, the date/time of delivery, delivering OB, and the band # unique to that bracelet that mom & support person also have.

The bracelets are made up as much as possible in advance w/ the stuff that we know such as moms name & mr #. Then the other stuff is added later. Baby gets 2 bands (each wrist) then mom & support person get 1 each.

Baby's ID band with his MR# gets put on shortly thereafter, either in nursery or in mom's room, depending on where bath takes place.

Preemie or sick baby deliveries are a bit different, as the priority is necessarily shifted. But usually it is the L/D nurse that puts band somewhere with that baby if not on him (like in the case of a micropremie whose skin wouldn't tolerate banding).

QTBabyNurse · Jun 04, 2008, 01:23 PM

Originally Posted by Elvish

Baby gets 2 bands (each wrist) then mom & support person get 1 each.
Baby's ID band with his MR# gets put on shortly thereafter, either in nursery or in mom's room, depending on where bath takes place.

So...are you saying that the baby gets THREE bands? Two while in L&D and then another when it gets to the nursery?

**Elvish** · Jun 04, 2008, 02:41 PM

Originally Posted by QTBabyNurse

So...are you saying that the baby gets THREE bands? Two while in L&D and then another when it gets to the nursery?

Baby has 2 bands w/ Mom's info, then one with his/her own info (dob, MR#) on it. Then on the other ankle goes the hugs tag.

One of Mom's bands we cut off at discharge and the other stays on baby and Mom as proof of a link til they get home.

jodyangel · Jun 04, 2008, 06:46 PM

We band the baby with 2 after birth asap. One on the wrist and one on ankle. Info on it is moms name and babys MRN. This matches the bracelet then I place on mom and dads wrist!

cherokeesummer · Jun 04, 2008, 09:07 PM

Originally Posted by Elvish

We band them in L&D before baby ever leaves the room. The bands have Mom's name and MR#, sex of baby, the date/time of delivery, delivering OB, and the band # unique to that bracelet that mom & support person also have.

The bracelets are made up as much as possible in advance w/ the stuff that we know such as moms name & mr #. Then the other stuff is added later. Baby gets 2 bands (each wrist) then mom & support person get 1 each.

Baby's ID band with his MR# gets put on shortly thereafter, either in nursery or in mom's room, depending on where bath takes place.

Preemie or sick baby deliveries are a bit different, as the priority is necessarily shifted. But usually it is the L/D nurse that puts band somewhere with that baby if not on him (like in the case of a micropremie whose skin wouldn't tolerate banding).

Our procedure is the same I believe.

RNmommy · Jun 05, 2008, 09:12 PM

Our babies get three bands, too. 2 are part of the 4 unique band system with mom, baby and other adult. The third is the infant's hospital band for medication administration.

cherokeesummer · Jun 08, 2008, 08:36 PM

Originally Posted by RNmommy

Our babies get three bands, too. 2 are part of the 4 unique band system with mom, baby and other adult. The third is the infant's hospital band for medication administration.

Thanks for the reminder, I was wrong above, we do have five bands. Two which are of the unique system of four (baby 2, mom 1 and other person 1) and then they have the medication administration band and then the security tag.

*Italian RN* · Jun 08, 2008, 11:47 PM

Our L&D bands them right after delivery, ours are made up in advance except for the stuff we dont know yet such as birth time. Baby gets two: one on the left wrist and one on the right ankle. The left ankle gets the hugs tag (our infant security system). Mom and one other person gets the other two bands.
Bands are checked at that time and when they are transferred to PP. They also get checked whenever the infant is taken out of the room and when we return the infant

DarcieRN · Jun 13, 2008, 12:01 PM

we band babies in the LDR. Baby and mom get one with identical info. Sex, full name of mom, date/time of birth, MR#, delivering Dr. After baby leaves the LDR and goes to the nursery the very first thing is the admiting nurse checks all the numbers, letters and dates for complete correctness, then the baby is admitted to the nursery. After baby is ready to go to mom, baby get another band with babies info...sex, moms full name, baby MR# mom MR# and admitting numbers. That band is on the leg. Bands are check each and every time the baby is brought to mom or dropped off at the nursery and baby must ALWAYS have both bands on.

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