laurencsmile

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1. Late Preterm Infants on Mother Baby Unit Thoughts?

   laurencsmile posted a topic in General Nursing

   Our hospital has an LPI pathway (for babies as low as 34 1/7 weeks) but I am told 'we dont follow the pathway' by the charge rns because it would require a nicu RN to float to the mother baby unit. So we care for LPIs on mother baby who the NICU cle...

2. Asked to give an anesthesia medication

   laurencsmile replied to laurencsmile's topic in General Nursing

   thank you all for your input! I am glad that this medication is more common than I had thought (it sounds like it is similar to scopolamine (I've used this a lot for nausea/end of life) and atropine but that it is less likely to cause tachycardia tha...

3. Asked to give an anesthesia medication

   laurencsmile posted a topic in General Nursing

   Hi all, I was asked this week to push Glycopyrronium PRN for symptomatic bradycardia on a mother-baby floor if my patient became symptomatic for a hr in the 30s after a c-section (hr in the 50s prior). I told my charge RN that I did not think this me...