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OH, one more thing.... take the stipend, not the housing they give you. By finding your own housing you can save money and take the stipend tax free. You can find an extended stay hotel with free breakfast, weekly cleaning, free internet, utilities...

I am currently in socal and 33 is the going rate plus housing or stipend...... Not as much as I thought it would be, but.... Good Luck!

I am a nurse who started out in newborn and worked for a year before doing NICU. I FULLY beleive that it is important to understand what normal is before venturing into NICU. I worked in a nursery thhat fnctioned like a low level NICU, so I got pl...

I have been told that it is not enough radiation to even show an xray of my hand, so I am lazy and dont wear one. I dont make it a point to run to the bedside when one is being done, but I dont run away either LOL!!!

hmmm, we measure from nose to ear to knee and that is the legnth. Put the kid in right sidelying position, get the tube to the stomach and then using a 10ml syringe, push air while advancing to open the sphincter and then immediately do an xray to c...

OK, I am terribly proud of my rolls, so I am more then happy to share my technique. OK, so, I take two blankets layer them on top of each other. Roll them long ways so that they are really tight. Take another one and roll it up with the other one, ...

i say you dont have to be part of anything you feel strongly about, they cant force you to. I am also very much against circs. I do assist because I feel like I can position them well, give them plenty of sucrose prior and during, and hold them tigh...

I understand many places do change tubing/disconest tubing/enter ports using sterile gloes and mask and sterile feild, but I am not really understanding why. If the outside of the tubing is not sterile and you touch it with sterile gloves, then your...

Crack addicts usually arent great historians, especially re: their own drug use! Plus, better to intubate than risk sudden withdrawal.

Educate me please. What makes the gluts an unsafe place? I only do the babes so VL is all I use, but cant recall anything about the VG or DG.. TIA!

Medical College of Ga Childrens medical center has only RN's and RRT's running the pump. The nurses, who are the primary ones who run our pumps, all have 10+ years of experience. They are also our transport clinicians. The nurses and RRTs who run...

How old is your child now? I understand why you feel the way you do, but please understand why we can be uncomfortable with resus on a 22+ weeker. Many Many Many times we have seen a child end up profoundly disabled or die a horrible death (NEC, the...

I am considering doing some week long assignments for strike relief in cali. Has anyone else done this and what are some things I might need to know.

I can really relate to how you feel right now. I work NICU and lost a patient a few weeks ago. After the familyt left (I had been by the mothers side for 9 hours) I finally cried. The next day I was SO depressed. I was in a fog. I couldnt stop t...

Amazing Grace A'miracle (not to forget the obligatory ' to make the name cool. However, this one really was a miracle. 24 weeker who layed in a outlying hospital left for dead after a 20 min resus attempt. After an hour kiddo started making cry...

We dont..dont even have them on the unit....

I am also going to post on this old thread..... I have had an RT (RT in NICU for 20+ yrs) sya that you can also use a saline bullet and place it in ice water and then you lavage the kid with it. I have not see it happen myself, though

Different hospitals accept different accuchecks. I worked at a hospital that used 35 as where you begin treating. So, a glucose of 41 is getting low, feed what he will take and recheck. This would NOT be the kind of kid I cup feed (I wouldnt cup fee...

As another poster stated, there is no IV. There are different levels withing the level III. I work in a level III, we do ecmo, heart sugeries, peritoneal dyalisis and pretty much everything but transplants. IMHO, the levels should be much more sp...

cosmetics/aestetics are not a reason to submit an infant to great pain and risk of botched circs and all of the other cons discussed here. a man who is in the hospital where people do not bathe an uncirc'd male properly is going to have an odor, as ...

I dont know how you could be more assertive. What do they want you to do, roll on the floor and throw a tantrum? Maybe one day you should fake pass out in front of them, then maybe they will take you moe seriously. (J/K, of course.) I would talk ...

When I was in nursing school, had ti bring the husband to the ER. His care was compromised because the PA acted like an a$$ and wouldnt let the MD do the procedure we were requesting. She was hateful. Tried ignore our wishes, and to make us "pay" ...

I remember the dad in that family saying he didnt know what theyt were going to do.... like it was pretty bad.

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There was a show, think it was TLC or discovery health that showed a set of large mutliples.... think it was that first set born several years ago. Initially, they had been given a massive home with bedrooms for each child, a large vehicle, tons of ...