NICU nurses - watch ER tonight!

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The episode is entitled "NICU" and it should be quite interesting. They've done NICU stuff in the past, and it's either been pretty realistic or completely idiotic.

I can't wait to see how it turns out this time. Focuses almost completely on Abby and Neela as they do a month in NICU for med school.

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Specializes in LTC, assisted living, med-surg, psych.

I had a baby in the NICU once, but have never worked there, nor do I ever want to. As phony as it all looked on TV, that moment when Abby handed the dead baby to its parents just destroyed me........those things always do because I've lived it. Which is why I was bawling my eyes out at the same time as I was cursing myself for watching this and thanking God I'm a plain old float nurse in a plain old country hospital!!

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i'm sorry you had to go through that! i was watching the show with my parents, who had a baby in the nicu for 5 months. the hospital was a 10 hour drive from their house. they finally released her and 2 days after they brought her home she died. my dad refused to watch the show, but my mom watched the whole thing with tears in her eyes. what got me is the parents who said after 16 days "we can't take any more of this!" and i was just thinking, what about those parents who are there 50 days, 70 days, 5 months!? i know i would feel tortured after only a week or 2, i cannot imagine what it would be like to have your baby there for months on end. what i'm trying to figure out now is if it would be to difficult for me to work in nicu, or would i be good at it because i have so much compassion? hmm..

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