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Hi, This board doesn't seem too active, but I will try anyway. If there are any nurses out there from Ireland I would like to hear from you. I am an American nurse with 30 years experience, currently working NICU. Basically, I want to a recruiter to...

Hi, I know sometime this thread has been done before, but I can not find it. I was hoping you would all take the time to do it again. I want all your IV stick tricks of the trades kind of thing. Where do you like to start an IV and why? What are your...

The doc here orders his indocin over 4 hours. What's up with that? Does anybody else do that? Thanks ahead of time.

Hi, What do you all think about having an assignment in the NICU where two babies are in one pod and two are in another, sometimes on the other side of the unit? The assumption being these are stable infants. I just feel very umcomfortable when this ...

Hi, Thanks all for your replies, I appreciate the time spent. I won't have to get used to this pod splitting snafu, I am counting the days until my contract expires...19 shifts to go. Thanks again.

In the nursery I now work there are a few nurses who insist on using NUK nipples for breastfeeding infants when they require bottle feedings. Where I worked before we never used them unless the infant had a special need for them. One reason I still d...