Love_2_Learn

Love_2_Learn

Level II & III NICU, Mother-Baby Unit

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  1. Undigested -vs- Partially Digested Residuals

    Love_2_Learn posted a topic in NICU, Neonatal

    Hi Everyone, I hope I can find some information here to help me understand more about refeeding NG/OG residuals. Some of our doctors and nurse practitioners say to refeed gastric residuals (they state...

  2. Would you recommend your NICU/hospital?

    Love_2_Learn replied to futuregaspasser's topic in NICU, Neonatal

    I would recommend Mission Hospital in Ashville, NC. They have a 51 bed NICU which admits 600 babies each year; 100 of those are transports in from one of 17 surrounding counties. They do not do...

  3. dopamine and the neonate

    Love_2_Learn replied to mmary2763's topic in NICU, Neonatal

    We usually use double lumen UVCs and piggyback the Dopamine into the TPN line closest to the baby...and...never, ever flush the TPN or Dopamine line. The TPN is going at X ml/hr and the Dopamine is...

  4. Help! Help! NICU nurses need feedback

    Love_2_Learn replied to thankful's topic in NICU, Neonatal

    Hi Everyone, Does your NICU have an Oral Sucrose Pain Protocol? If so, how is it similar or different from ours?: Our hospital developed an "Oral Sucrose Pain Protocol" after a few of our well baby...

  5. Laryngeal intubations?

    Love_2_Learn replied to dawngloves's topic in NICU, Neonatal

    Don't freak yet DawnGloves because I am pretty sure that the NRP instructors are supposed to continue teaching NRP as they have for the past few years until the new books come out in May. I think that...

  6. Laryngeal intubations?

    Love_2_Learn replied to dawngloves's topic in NICU, Neonatal

    Jolie, your post sounds like you attended the same nursing conference and listened to Dr. Goldsmith's speech. You very nicely hit the nail on the head for me... I can get too wordy... you put it...

  7. Undigested -vs- Partially Digested Residuals

    Love_2_Learn replied to Love_2_Learn's topic in NICU, Neonatal

    Yeah Gompers, that's just what I was thinking. My gut feeling is that after being in a stomach for 3 hours (bolus feedings) that the food should look the lovely partially digested way you mentioned....

  8. Laryngeal intubations?

    Love_2_Learn replied to dawngloves's topic in NICU, Neonatal

    Those are good questions DawnGloves. My understanding is that the laryngeal mask airway is simply for use in obtaining an emergency airway so you can give bag and mask ventillation (because without...

  9. Ever had a Reiki Massage session??

    Love_2_Learn replied to luvmy2angels's topic in Holistic

    Thanks for the clarification. For some reason I remember hearing that Reiki practitioners do not need licenses to practice because they are not actually touching a person... something about the actual...

  10. Undigested -vs- Partially Digested Residuals

    Love_2_Learn replied to Love_2_Learn's topic in NICU, Neonatal

    I appreciate all of your replies; I've learned so much already. I'm wondering, does anyone know what makes some food look partially digested and some food look like it's fresh? Do you think it has...

  11. Laryngeal intubations?

    Love_2_Learn replied to dawngloves's topic in NICU, Neonatal

    I attended a nursing conference last year where Dr. Jay Goldsmith spoke about upcoming changes in the NRP (Neonatal Resuscitation Program) which will occur in May of this year when the new NRP books...

  12. Ever had a Reiki Massage session??

    Love_2_Learn replied to luvmy2angels's topic in Holistic

    Excuse me please, but I thought that Reiki treatments do not involve massage. I mean, the Reiki practitioner holds their hands an inch or so away over certain places on your body for a few minutes in...

  13. Undigested -vs- Partially Digested Residuals

    Love_2_Learn replied to Love_2_Learn's topic in NICU, Neonatal

    Thanks DawnGloves, knowing your NEC workups often don't find anything and also that the fresh-looking residual goes through the stomach sometimes just as the partially digested residual does makes me...

  14. Undigested -vs- Partially Digested Residuals

    Love_2_Learn replied to Love_2_Learn's topic in NICU, Neonatal

    Thank you for your answer DawnGloves. When you said that finding undigested residual 30 minutes after refeeding it will buy the baby a NEC workup, this reinforces my feeling that undigested residual...