Will refresher course help NICU Nurse

I appreciate your reply, 1RRRN. The Megacode NRP certification was a breeze once I realized the manometer (pressure gauge) was now built into the anesthesia bag (flow-inflating bag).
I just wondered if I was way-off-base by not doing refresher course that as far as I was concerned wouldn't help me that much in the NICU. I will take your advice and contact the hospitals, themselves.
My biggest concern is... if after 4 kids in 5 years... my bladder can do a 12 hour shift.

Ha! Oh yeah, Peri-Pads and Kegels, know them well. 20 years post hyst and I'm buying mini pads. That's unfair.
Thank you for the head's up on Human Resources, in the old days those were the people who wanted you to scrub in and work the same day you applied for the job.
Our big hospitals want you to apply online and I wondered how I would get past that but I'll try to find the hiring manager. All of my 20 CEU's are neonate related and I've been looking for conferences and working on your good idea of an education proposal.
Whoa, you've worked several areas. Good for you. And you are so right about the differences in the age groups.
When I was a graduate nurse, I applied at a Children's Hospital but they had nothing on the floor. They asked me to work in the Special Care of their NICU until they had an opening on the floor. Well, the opening came and went and I never wanted to leave my babies. Guess, I was lucky I found my niche but I tell my nursing student daughter to get and there and experience it all. Don't limit yourself.
Thanks for all the good advice, I really appreciate it. After doing the obvious, I was kind of stifled as to what my next step should be. I kind of felt like I was dumped in the middle of the ocean and I knew how to swim...but because I didn't know where the shore was I didn't know which direction to start swimming.

Northwoodsmom,
We do have a lot in common! I'm from Ohio and my first job was NICU, Children's Hospital, Dayton, OH.
I took 1RRRN's good advice and tried to speak with a hiring manager. The particular hospital system I wanted to apply to told me, basically..Ha! Apply online like everyone else.
My resume was scarey...no in house nursing experience for 15 years.
My cover letter made me realize how much I had done in my field and that I would be a very good hire as a PRN Nursery Nurse in this particular hospital. NB-Level III experience. Transports, taught Prenatal, Breast Feeding, Discharge classes, worked all socio-economic levels in Community, Children's, and Teaching Hospital. I thought I was a danged good hire. HA! 1RRRN is right, HR is not my friend. I made it through an online what would you do test before they told me they weren't considering me for the job. One of those Strongly Dislike, Dislike, No-Opinion, Like, Strongly Like tests that are so abstract. I wanted to type someplace..."Hey! I'm a grown woman, I know how to get along with my peer group and I will work my rear off for you when I'm on the clock." (well, if you look behind me, I'd have to work an awful lot of hours to work my rear off.)
Now I don't even know, why I'm not being considered for this job? I've never ever not gotten a nursing job that I've applied for. Is it because I'm 54? (I didn't put my birthday on resume but they do know when I graduated from college. I live in the South...Is it because I'm not fluent in Spanish? I am a good nurse, easy to work with, and loved my babies and their families. I'd like to say...THEIR

LOSS!! But I'm sad, and unemployed.
Sorry so long.

One more thing, then I'll shut up. Rather than keep griping I have another plan. First I applied in the Presbyterian System. This time I'm applying to the Baylor Hospital Systems and I'm going to contact anyone that I worked with that still works/or recently quit from a Baylor facility. None of my friends actually worked in the facility that I'm applying to but may know someone that will be a good contact...a phone number, at least. Maybe they can redirect me or put in a good word for me. I'm not ready to give up