Bedside Supplies

BittyBabyGrower, MSN, RN · Dec 6, 2008

We have bedside carts that have the basics in them, such as diapers, washcloths, linens, suction caths, mouth care items soap/lotion. These are stocked as needed. Each room has a cart with other misc supplies on it....IV start kits, neolinks, IV tubings, and the such. You must take off your gloves and use hand sanitizer before going into the general room cart. The bedside ones are stocked as needed. If it is an isolation room, the stuff in the bedside cart is pitched, otherwise it can stay for the next kid. The carts are wiped down each shift as is the whole bedspace with the sanitizing wipes.

NeoNurseTX, RN · Dec 6, 2008

we have a bedside cart w/ supplies.. i just take off my gloves before i reach in there if i need something in the middle of cares.

MandaAnda · Dec 7, 2008

Anything that's in our babies' bedside stays with that baby. Unless it's equipment that's then washed down, nothing is used for the next baby if it's been in one baby's bedside already.

We try to keep ours stocked at all times. Intensive care/high dependency and special care are individual nurseries but in the same unit, and each one has their own stock, and there's actual stock rooms as well.

Sweeper933 · Dec 7, 2008

In the drawers of the isolettes / cribs, we keep diapers, wipes, tape measures (for girths...), eye drops, shampoo... stuff like that.

Each baby also gets a bedside cart. This 3-drawer cart will contain IV stuff in one drawer (syringes, tubing, stopcocks, needles, alcohol wipes.....). In another drawer will be feeding supplies (bottles, nipples, feeding syringes, aspirate checking syringes, feeding extension tubing, formula...) and suction supplies (catheters, sterile water). The third drawer will usually have the meds and some other misc. supplies.

We have a supply cart that goes around to each room every day that has the basic supplies on it that the nurses will replenish their bedside carts with. We also have a main stock room where everything is kept.

When each baby goes home, the bedside cart gets emptied out and cleaned by the unit aids. If a baby changes their position in the room, or goes to a completely different room on the unit, then that cart will go with them.

3yrDiploma · Dec 7, 2008

I guess home is where my heart will always be. The unit I work in now, I guess will never measure up. Back home. each bedside had a tote thing that at the beginning of your shift you would go to the supply room and gather up basically what you may need for your shift. Those supplies are for that baby 'only'. We had a cart with IV start supplies which was restocked after each use. Same thing for UAC's etc. Anything left over when a baby was discharged was disposed of. Each bedside is cleaned with trash being emptied after each shift. Phones and counters etc all wiped down each shift. The unit is neat and clean.....warmers/isolettes all cleaned and dryed to prevent spotting etc. Where I am now it is a mess...formula spilled and runs down isolette walls etc etc etc....I could go on and on!!!!

I WANNA GO HOME:sniff:

Preemienurse23 · Dec 8, 2008

We have carts at each bedside, which are restocked daily. We only empty them if the kid comes out of isolation. We usually move the carts with the kids, unless they go to our level 1 unit, and we have different kinds of carts in there.

NICURN29 · Dec 9, 2008

Our bedside cabinets have four drawers. The first two contain things like syringes, IV supplies, lab supplies, tape, bandages, alcohol wipes, chloraprep wipes, sims, and oral swabs. The third is for feeding supplies and sometimes intubation supplies (in case a kid self-extubates). These items stay from kid to kid. The fourth drawer is used to keep the wash basin...obviously, that is thrown away between kids.

We keep diapers, wipes, clothing, and other personal items like that in the drawers beneath the bed, be it a Giraffe, a crib, an Ohio, or an older isolette. All our beds get totally broken down and cleaned when a kid is taken out of them.