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Kristi: check the NANN website and see if they have any policy statement on it; also do a search for any articles from NeonatalNetwork. The literature may support the concept. ["evidenced-based practice, in the vernacular of the day]
If that doesn't help, you might have to "let it ride" for a while--the place isn't ready for it. From what you've said, they're not ready for much in the way of CHANGE, any way shape or form.
When are you moving?
Looks like 17 months? Hubster's finishing school, so it could POSSIBLY be plus or minus one semester, depending on what pace he goes. I can't wait!! I am so torn between wanting to stick it out and keep trying (rationale: It's ooooonly 17 months...) or move to another hospital while I'm still here (rationale: It's 17 looooong months...). We're one of the largest Level III's in the area, and I almost hate to move down to one of the smaller hospitals, but at the same time, someone mentions something like "Oh, this hospital XYZ does immersion bathing" or "They have such-and-such classes for parents" and I'm drooling like a chubby kid looking at a slice of coconut pie, you know?
However, always the optimist (dang, that's exhausting sometimes!), I am looking at getting some certifications and such while I'm still here in this state, so hopefully I'll be in a better position to affect change when we move. I'm still the low man on the totem pole, and while I can't get NCC certification just yet, there are other things I'm interested in, so hopefully those projects will keep me busy enough to forget that daydream of becoming a kindergarten teacher.
Where do you live? I fo'got.
Any place has got to be better than here. All redeeming qualities aside (yeah, all two of them!), I am thoroughly disenchanted with this city, its people, its politics, its weather, its disinegration, and last, but certainly not least, the place I work, which, as you know, was built sometime in the dark ages (and that's probably when the last "progressive" policy was written as well!).
I know, I know. I can't help it. I'm smiling. Okay, I'm trying to smile. Really! REALLY!
Ow.
I think I hurt myself.
NICU_Nurse, BSN, RN
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Does anyone have an actual policy written about kangarooing for your unit, and if so, would you be able to share it?
Ps. These people are really working my last nerve! Grr.