does anybody NOT like nicu???

[crazylilkelly]

It's seems that everyone i encounter absolutely loves nicu. which is great & motivates me even more to want to work in nicu!!! so does anybody not like it??

[Jolie, BSN]

Siri and traumasRus,

Thank you for the work that you do with big people! They scare me to death!

[MA Nurse]

See, PICU is a bird of an entirely different colour. We only have the rare few who stay for a while (like the one babe who's celebrating day 200 on... Wednesday?) The rest are in & out. I think our average length of stay (probably minus those outliers) is somewhere around 3 days.

Any NICU people know average stays on your units? I'd be very

interested.

Where I used to work, some babies would stay in our NICU for a year! Very sad. The NICU I work in now, the longest stay has been about 6 months...most babies will stay until approx. their due date....if they're not extremely sick....maybe just a growing preemie.

[AliRae]

Where I used to work, some babies would stay in our NICU for a year! Very sad. The NICU I work in now, the longest stay has been about 6 months...most babies will stay until approx. their due date....if they're not extremely sick....maybe just a growing preemie.

if they're still not ready to go home, do you transition them to PICU or peds at some point? They've started doing that at my hospital, and it's a little frustrating. They have 40 beds up there, and we only have 20, which are being rapidly filled with little grads. =/

[MA Nurse]

if they're still not ready to go home, do you transition them to PICU or peds at some point? They've started doing that at my hospital, and it's a little frustrating. They have 40 beds up there, and we only have 20, which are being rapidly filled with little grads. =/

I've seen a few babies get transferred to peds or picu, i'm not sure if there is an actual policy regarding this, though.

I have no problem with the babies staying in Nicu as long as they need to.

[muskan]

Hats off to the Nicu Nurses.