NICU Special on Discovery Health's "Baby Week"!!

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hey just wanted to let you all know that there will be a NICU special coming on July 15th at 10pm(eastern time) on Discovery Health!! for anyone interested in becoming a NICU nurse or for anyone who already is one!! i am really excited because there are hardly any programs about the NICU...the shows are usually about healthy babies/or babies with small problems...you dont see any that are devoted solely to the NICU so it's great to see them changing it up!

I was thinking the same thing! I don't even work NICU and I thought the LP was extreme! The baby wasn't even showing symptoms, they were just doing it for prophylaxis!? And it looked like the NP was performing it.

Our NP's do lumbar puntures, as do our fellows and residents. Our NP's pretty do much everything the docs do. Anyways LP was definitely not needed...and WHY couldn't mom hold her baby. We kangaroo/hold in our nicu, ET tube and all so long as the baby is stable. I had a baby just this weekend, one mo old from home, intubated and absolutely out of control unless mom was holding him...no sedation for him because he had a shunt placed so i put him in moms arms and there he stayed.

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I was disappointed in it too. I stumbled across it by accident, got all excited, but then ended up turning it off after a few minutes. I only saw the 36 weeker with RDS, and it wouldn't have been that bad except for the dramatic voice-overs. I definitely think it was going for emotional reactions of "Oh no, I can't take my baby home" instead of information about the NICU. More along the lines of the delivery shows where pregnant women watch and then get terrified.

That one was actually PPHN, the doc mentioned the kid was on iNO, but they never went into talking about PPHN.

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Our NP's do lumbar puntures, as do our fellows and residents. Our NP's pretty do much everything the docs do. Anyways LP was definitely not needed...and WHY couldn't mom hold her baby. We kangaroo/hold in our nicu, ET tube and all so long as the baby is stable. I had a baby just this weekend, one mo old from home, intubated and absolutely out of control unless mom was holding him...no sedation for him because he had a shunt placed so i put him in moms arms and there he stayed.

Wow, I didn't know NNP did all of that!

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Specializes in NICU Level III.
Wow, I didn't know NNP did all of that!

Yup, they do. We have transport nurses (they are not advanced practice nurses and some have ADNS, but they do have advanced training through our hospital) and they do umbilical lines, intubation, chest tubes, etc.

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Another dissapointed NICU nurse here as well. I really haven't watched a whole episode though. Boston Med is on at the same time as this NICU show so I am hooked on Boston Med so I am only watching NICU during commercials. The parts I have seen have been very boring and dissapointing. I plan to keep watching Boston Med and just check in with NICU during commercials. Boston Med is an awesome show.

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This show is such a disappointment. I spend the whole show pointing out poor practices and then how UN-dramatic that situation actually is. Like the 36weeker that was born to a mom with chorio and just needed Antibiotics?? They made it an absolute life and death kind of thing.

Nothing to show for actual NICU life for medical professionals and parents alike.

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Even from a parents perspective, this show was extremely inaccurate. I only wish my 25 weekers NICU stay was as calm as this show depicted the NICU enviroment. I also feel it didn't show enough technical information...none actually. Not that I wish a family a brain bleed, NEC, or sepsis...but that's really what happens and I wish they would've shown the "meat" of NICU situations.

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