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Sweden has 10 years experience and specializes in NICU, Med/Surg.


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  1. NURSING IN SWEDEN

    Hi I´m a swedish nurse and would be glad to help, but I do need a little more information. Anna
  2. Holding with UAC/UVC lines

    Our policy regarding UAC/UVC is that we (the nurses) have to ask the doctor the first time. If they have been up once usually all restrictions are gone. Right now one of the staff is holding one of the babies with UAV and UVC trying to keep the baby ...
  3. Alarm limits and ROP

    Our limits are 80-95 for all babies with oxygen. We are very cautious to increase (or decrease) oxygen. We have a low incidence of ROP. I can have a baby with sats of 20 and still not increase oxygen. If he/she is on CPAP and not breathing what´s the...
  4. micro preemie trophic feeds

    We usually start their first feedings within 2 hours of birth (regardless of gestation age) and advance as tolerated. Most are on full feeds within a week ( We have a low incidence of NEC in Sweden so it seems to work.... The 22 weeker (520 g) I´m ta...
  5. suctioning the intubated pt...1 nurse/RT, or 2?

    Hi I´m sorry if this is a dumb question, but why are you bagging when you are suctioning. When do you do it (before / after)? I´m a nicu nurse here in sweden and we never use bagging in conection to suctioning, but maybe it´s different with older chi...
  6. banked milk anyone?

    We use bank milk for all premature children and for lots of surgical kids. We even give it rectally to stimulate the intestine for thoose with "short gut"! They usually stay on donor milk until mum can keep up with the supply/demand. About 90% of ou...
  7. Hi Suzanne Can someone use the H1B visa if they do have work experience (I have worked NICU for almost 8 years), relevant license and VS? Does the job have to differ from other staff nurse positions? My transcript papers from my nursing school (3 yea...
  8. Food In The Nicu

    KMC = Kangaroo Mother Care
  9. Food In The Nicu

    I seriously doubt that, what about all rest the of the patients in the hospital. I´m just guessing, but I think they get food served to them......... We allow the parents to eat in the ICU area as long as they don't do it during KMC (not that many do...
  10. Happy Birthday Suzanne

    :redbeathe Happy birthday! I hope you will have a wonderful day! Anna
  11. Questions about managing NICU babies

    1) For premies, when do you start feeding them? Day 2 or 3? I know that if you feed them starting day 1, they can get NEC. In the meantime, do you start TPN? Or is TPN only if the baby is going many days without eating? What kind of IVF do you like t...
  12. O2 is 81, what shoud you do?

    Neonates are an entirely different patient group and the same rules don´t apply.... Some of my patients make regular desats down to 10 (sats) and we watch and just stand back and wait for them to recover again. Doing somehing, anything, even just op...
  13. oldest babies in the NICU?

    We recently had a 18 month toddler (born after 24 weeks, still ventilator dependant) but I do think we hold the record for the oldest "child" because we had a boy here for 20 years. He was home during the day,went to regular school but since he had a...
  14. UAC fluid/antiseptic

    It´an amino acid mixture (with all 18 essential and non-essenseal amoni acids required for protein synteses), where the propotions tries to mimic the content of breastmilk (includes taurin as well). It´s a way of giving the baby more protein and to ...
  15. UAC fluid/antiseptic

    We use a mix with Vaminolac and water in all our arteriall lines, umbilical or peripherial. Heparin is never used in my unit. Umbilical lines are cleaned wih NS for a baby under 30 weeks, for all others it´s chlorhexadine. Anna