tracy6fan

What type of nursing job are you looking for?

I live in the far southwestern side of the county so it takes me 40-50 minutes to get to work on a good day. I know that sounds like a long time, but you get used to it living in Atlanta. Plus I don't get on the interstate. I'd rather drive 10 min...

Prinzess, I just might be able to answer this one... I live in Douglasville and work in the NICU at Cobb. We're level III and transport out all surgeries to Scottish Rite or Eggleston. Don't know that we're hiring today, but that could all change...

We tended to have the same problem with the "last day teaching" and found it to be extremely overwhelming for the parents. We've been working on it hard and have just added a "To Do" checklist for the parents. We put it on the cribs once the babies t...

I don't know how it is in other states, but here in Georgia now, Medicaid/Medicare has added their own set of questions to the PG surveys, and they're basing their reimbursements on the scores.:angryfire My favorite question was rating the quietnes...

BBG, we use the hydrocolloid gold hearts and put a hat on.

Or a 5Fr feeding tube if you have them.

My thoughts exactly Gompers. We use the green tubes too, but change them every 3 days. A product rep for the 30 day tubes showed me something on the green tubes I'd never noticed before. There are holes along the distal side of the tube, but no ho...

You will surely learn alot in any of those units that could apply to the NICU. I worked in a PedsER for a few years when I became burned out after 9 years in the NICU, and I felt like I had never been a nurse before. I learned so much practical kno...

NICU_Nurse, if you're seriously interested in doing a poster on car seats, I can help you out with some great websites. We redid our parent teaching notebook on car seats a couple of months ago and I learned SOOO MUCH. It was one of those things I ...

Oh, you're going to love, love, LOVE the Giraffe beds!!! After I said this I remembered there is one drawback...those darn temp probes! They're a little stiffer than the disposable ones we use on Ohmedas and come loose alot. We played around with i...

We use the transilluminator attachment on the bili blankets all the time for IV lines/PICCs or to transilluminate a chest. I will say it kind of ruins you after you get used to using it. One of our product reps gave us a hand held mini-transillumin...

Jennica, if you're still job hunting, what part of Atlanta do you live in?

A couple more to add Respironics/Children's Medical Ventures: http://chmv.respironics.com/ Specialty Medical Products: http://www.gopreemie.com/shop/customer/home.php

We've seen a marked increase in belly defect babies here, 6 gastros in a 2 or 3 week period during the spring. The genetisists are finding a link between belly defects and meth use, which is also pretty rampant here.

I've worked in units that have done it both ways and I prefer opsiting to the belly. It seems to hold the lines more secure and I haven't experienced any problems from humidity on the ELBW babies. Which brings me to a comment you made "lovemyjob" ab...

The Lynchburg to Roanoke corridor may be what you're looking for. Both are beautiful areas with the Blue Ridge Mountains for a backdrop, smaller towns (pop~100,000) and less congested than northern Va and tidewater. I'm pretty certain both have Mag...

We self-schedule in a computer based program (active staffer). It can set the maximum number of people that can schedule themselves for a shift, let's say 8, and once 8 people sign up no one else can. Full-time people are given 2 weeks to put in th...

Not all NICUs will offer a nurse externship, so you may be limited by that. From those choices, decide how much you want to see. Scottish Rite and Eggleston NICUs would offer the most as far as seeing surgical and ECMO patients too. Besides the on...

I'm responding too late for your interview, but I work at Cobb in another department and like it. I've worked in several hospitals in 3 different states in 18 years of nursing. It's been a good fit for me. Cobb is just large enough to keep you bus...

The manufacturer of the product you use may offer certification classes. We use Kendall PICCs and they're doing a class in the Atlanta area in May.

After the Vapotherm was pulled here, someone in RT management jerryrigged a "high flow" cannula together with a concha heater to use in place of it. Some docs will use it, some won't. It was cleared for use by biomed and risk management, however so...

KK, I think my nurse manager just toured your unit about a month ago. She came back and told me about a unit that nurses did everything you described, and as an 18 year veteran, it gave me the willies. We treasure our therapists' knowledge of the ve...

The CDC's website is a good place to start when you're looking for various practice recommendations. www.cdc.gov It's often difficult to find full text articles on the web unless you're a member. We leave our UACs in for 5-7 days. CDC says 5 or fewe...

One of the reasons I joined this forum was to network and see what other units are doing. This was one of the questions at the top of my list. Like Luv, I too am having a difficult time finding evidence based information on changing isolettes less ...