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Congratulations on your interview. I'm an Adult Nurse who started in neonates last year. Are you a nurse in the UK? Someone on the forums suggested I read The Department of Health Toolkit for High...

All your comments have been really intersting and helpful. Honestly it's so good to get people's insight into suction practice in different units. I feel more confident now with it, although I'll...

Yikes :nailbiting: Ah, so would 'sounding crunchy' (love that term btw) alone give cause for suction, or would you not go there until you've got other clinical features alongside it?

Thank you all for making me feel better about asking for help with suctioning. I felt like by now I should be able to do such a basic thing as this on my own. Reading your comments has helped me...

I wish we had in-line suction. We don't have chest physios based on the unit, they'll only come if there is a real concern about an infant's respiratory state. Physios don't see ventilated babies as...

Thanks for your replies :) Nurse4sale that's reassuring to know, if anyone offers to do it for me I leap for joy and let them. Not good for me in the long term. And I feel embarrassed asking for help...

That's an excellent idea :up: Never thought of that because I don't think we stock them.

Hello. I'm really new to neonates and I'm loving it so far. My main concern is I'm underconfident when it comes to suctioning a Et tube. I know how to do it, but I struggle with when to do it, if...

Interesting topic, thanks for bringing it up. Our unit does this, but not every baby with a CVC gets Nystatin, there are a set of risk factors that indiciate its use. We put 0.5ml down the NG and...

Best of luck! I'm sure you'll love it. I just had my first week in NICU, and I've also got no previous experience. Although I can't be too helpful, one thing I can say is bring in a notebook to write...

What a super topic. As an adult nurse due to start in NICU, literally the only thing I feel confident in is being able to care for the adults in the unit. I hope when I'm overwhelmed with all the...

Excellent! Congratulations and very well done you. :yeah:

Good Luck for tomorrow! :up:

Thanks Raye! I'll add Bliss to my reading list. Are the current levels of care 1:2 hd and 1:4 sc, or is this a new aim? Will this mean less staff or more staff per infant? The unit I'm applying to...

Thank you for your advice :nurse: It's so great that nicu welcome adult nurses.

XB9S me too haha :lol2:. Gem, wow...thank you so much!! That reply blew me away. All this information is wonderful, and I'd never have found that on my own. Good luck with your masters. I'd love one...

I have an interview soon for NICU Nurse. I'm an adult nurse with no nicu experience. I was wondering if anyone knows of any current challenges, research, or developments within the nicu setting...

Thank you for your reply. That's a stinker. I was hoping PICUs would welcome ICU Nurses and let them do the branch conversion course. I know NICUs accept adult nurse applicants with critical care...

I potentially have an ICU job offer (nursing cohort...just waiting to hear which ICU it'll be.) Does anyone know how long it takes to complete the necessary post-grad courses to be classed as a...

The final step after all that drama is seeing them return from xray with the tube now coiled around their hand. :rolleyes:

Thank you MaryAnn. I did email her and she replied to say they'll be advertising for a Band 5 in a few weeks time. So good news! The odds are well stacked against me but I'm so pleased to hear...

Just wondering if I could have your two cents :twocents: I've checked nhs jobs every day for over a year waiting for a neonatal nurse post to come up at work. So far only one has and I was...

Actually Queensland is top of my list!! But anywhere where the rugby is good will do :) I love how Oz seems to welcome international nurses with open arms. If I'm going all that way then then I'd be...

Thank you for your reply :) Right I didn't realise they were designed for people finishing their graduate programs. It makes sense that they'd be very popular courses and only offered to people...

I'm just wondering if anyone has had experience of bridging programs into icu/nicu/other acute areas. I'd love to come to Oz on a temporary visa, and it'd be excellent if I could find a job that...