infantsonly

infantsonly has 5 years experience and specializes in NICU.

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1. NICU Nurse torn on becoming an NNP

   infantsonly replied to NICURN'17's topic in NICU

   I am a new NNP, just coming off orientation. Going into nursing, I knew my goal was to become an NNP. Much like you, I tried to learn as much as possible while working as a bedside nurse, always asking questions and reading about different conditions...

2. Neonatal Nursing Degree

   infantsonly replied to Jay023's topic in NICU

   Calling people names? What names did I call you?

3. Neonatal Nursing Degree

   infantsonly replied to Jay023's topic in NICU

   Taking one or two people for what they say regarding an entire profession is very narrow minded, especially when you only have experience at one hospital. I have experience with many different hospitals and I completely disagree with your assumptions...

4. Neonatal Nursing Degree

   infantsonly replied to Jay023's topic in NICU

   I completely disagree. I am graduating this Spring and have had an NNP job signed since last year at a large teaching hospital. There is a shortage of NNPs. I have started seeing some hospitals utilize PAs in NICUs but the majority of neonatal provid...

5. Questions about Neonatal Nurse Practitioners

   infantsonly replied to Sarah0688's topic in NICU

   I am graduating from an NNP program in a couple of months. My experience is from my work as an RN in a level III NICU and from my clinical rotations in various NICUs. I care for 7-10 patients that vary in acuity. We split our patient load amongst pr...

6. East Carolina University Online Program

   infantsonly replied to NICURN5678's topic in NICU

   I will be graduating from ECU's NNP program in May. It is a great program, they have a 100% first time pass rate for boards. I did the program full time while working full time and it has been really busy, but I have learned so much. I knew my clinic...

7. Is NICU for me?

   infantsonly replied to OnTheSearch's topic in NICU

   If you are looking for a less stressful job, then NICU is definitely not for you. Working in a special care nursery or a newborn nursery would be a better option if you want to work with infants. You will care for critical infants if you work in a l...

8. What are your call requirements??

   infantsonly replied to slp080477's topic in NICU

   No on call time on my unit. When we are short staffed we get nurses from other units to take stable infants, and we call/text those who aren't working and get volunteers to come in. When it comes down to it if we don't get more staff we work with wha...

9. NG/OG placement

   infantsonly replied to kp1987's topic in NICU

   Sorry I just saw this thread and your post. This seems very off, except for infants a kg or under. I've never seen a 2 kg infant with an NG at 29 or a 3 kg infant with an NP at 42.... I would relook at this calculation...

10. NICU Assignments

    infantsonly replied to RNAvatar's topic in Travel

    I am not a travel nurse, but from talking with other NICU nurses that travel the consensus seems to be travel nurses mostly get feeders and growers, very rarely critical infants.

11. NICU New Grad Programs

    infantsonly replied to Nursing1990's topic in NICU

    I would contact level III and level IV NICUs in areas you are interested in and ask if they hire new grads. I would also ask if they have a nurse residency program. I was hired as a new grad and I felt it was beneficial having a well put together n...