luvmybabes

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1. Tired

   luvmybabes posted a topic in General Nursing

   I am tired. I have been in the NICU since 2002. I have seen management come and go. They usually don't last long. The Supervisor we have now wiggled her way into this position. I didn't get along with her as a staff nurse and now she is superviso...

2. NAS, How do you score?

   luvmybabes replied to luvmybabes's topic in NICU

   Thanks for the input. We only start morphine if they have 3 scores above 8 or 2 scores above 12. We have new nurses that I feel don't understand the scoring system.

3. NAS, How do you score?

   luvmybabes posted a topic in NICU

   I work in a 20 bed NICU and 25% of our babies suffer from NAS. How does your facility handle scoring these babies? We use the Finnegan scoring system and recently they decided they want us to check our score with a second RN if the score is 8 or &g...

4. 8 weeks of orientation

   luvmybabes replied to ilsaj's topic in NICU

   Absolutely not, 12 weeks for level 2 NICU orientation, work with level 2 babies for a while, then 12 weeks orientation into level 3 Nicu rning.

5. Floating

   luvmybabes posted a topic in Safety

   I just returned to work after a FMLA of 4.5 months. I am on restricted hours, 6 hours per day for 2 weeks. I was to work Fri, Sat, and Sun. Fri and Sat were going to be refresher days. I needed to update on our Epic system and all the changes in ...