heymama1plus1

heymama1plus1

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heymama1plus1 has 11 years experience and specializes in NICU.


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  1. Some questions about gentamicin...

    We have measured and tested our particular brand of IV tubing, triflow, t-connector, microclaves, etc (everything from where the syringe touches the tubing to where it hits the baby's bloodstream) and found that our "priming volume" is 0.7ml. So her...
  2. Potential MN Nurses Strike?

    Yesterday's vote came through.... 84% voted for an open ended strike. Wish us luck that the hospitals will come to the table finally and talk before we walk!!!!
  3. Potential MN Nurses Strike?

    I am a MN nurse who is in one of the striking hospitals... it IS a ULP strike. They (the union) have a huge list of violations. Send us good vibes that the hospital caves before we get to the strike!
  4. Some questions about gentamicin...

    I've been around awhile and I gotta ask... what is retrograding a med? Is it something normally done on adults (I've only done NICU)?
  5. Enteral feeding pumps

    Gravity for small bolus volumes, medfusions for volumes We also have the enteral feeding set with the orange end that won't fit into a med line (to avoid errors). We use separate pumps labeled for meds and feeds; we don't use the same pump for clea...
  6. Sat monitoring -- Car Seat Test -- CHANGES?!

    Their pulse ox is put back on for the car seat trial (if it's off).
  7. Baby Care DVD

    It was just a regular video camera... nothing professional. I think someone edited it with iMovie. We get mixed reviews from people; a lot have no interest in watching. We of course do all the regular hands on teaching too but we wanted something ...
  8. Baby Care DVD

    We made one on our unit. That way it mirrored our teaching sheets and used the materials we had on hand (our bottle/ nipple types, our baths, etc).
  9. Earliest viable gestational age?

    We had a 22 week IVF baby... actually did quite well considering (just ROP and some DD)... funny thing, mom was PG (on her own) before the 1st baby was discharged!
  10. Do you let gastroschisis babies with silos be held?

    Curious... what does your silo look like? Does it have the "springloaded" metal ring that pops under the skin then the mesh-type bag that rises above? Have you ever had one come out accidently? I've never seen one come out, and unfortunately the l...
  11. For example, completely stable, on room air, a small defect with The way we do our silos- they are held up by some twill tape looped over the top of the warmer. If you keep the same tension, why not let parents hold? One particular surgeon was ada...