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I agree it needs to be used appropriately.

I could see this as interfering with care making the baby suffer needlessly. I think nurses may not do all that to use it for a minor procedure like a blood draw or dex stick. Or they would keep a used one at the bedside for hours, allowing for bacterial growth, then use it again in its contaminated state.

You are right I am corrected, but I don't think of this as a male/female issue its a cultural one. I agree move on when you can, I have been called to bad delivery's before, and asked to leave by the woman's family. They were informed that the baby may die or suffer irreversible harm and I was the best person to keep that from happening. They agreed and I stayed, retreated as soon as I could.

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I have never had a problem with it and another male NICU nurse friend had a news article about him a little bit ago. A local politician had a baby and he was thanked by her for helping her with breastfeeding. When they see your a competent and that they need you, male or female no longer matters. Have a great day and better tomorrow.

I don't want this to seem like an attack on you, but learn from it. Sounds like the outcome was okay, baby lived, I'll point out that babies have decels in utero for just as long and live normal lives after. To learn you need to recognize the problem, it seems there was a communication problem most of all. With a years experience I would not expect you to run a code but I would expect you to communicate with the others. Others don't always know your skill level and expect you to tell them what you need, as you identified your lack of experience with experience as what you needed, you sometimes have to tell others that. Take it and learn from it, identify what went wrong, believe me I rerun every one I have ever been on over and over, in my head, trying to find what could have been done better. The result may have been good, but I want to learn and be better next time. Take the gilt your feeling now and use it as motivation to learn more, no one says you can't take NRP again with a years experience I will bet you learn a lot more as you now will understand things better. I can take a textbook and read it cover to cover and not learn a thing, but when something is new and I have a motivator like you have I will learn it and more. Have a good day and better tomorrow.

I have worked in the NICU now for 14 years, I had to move here when I hurt my back in adult ICU and it took some adjustments. I really like it now and usually do the high risk deliveries and charge nurse rolls but love jump in and hold babies any chance I get. The only person who gives me any flack over my NICU choice is my big brother but he just loves to poke fun at me for anything I do. I am well respected by the nursing staff and MD's I work with. I always encourage new nurses to start some where they don't want to end up working however as your first year or so you will make many mistakes and you will have to live with them. But there is a practice at least where I work for the other staff to never forget your mistakes and if you can leave them behind you by changing after a year or two I think you will be happier working in your position of choice.

I took the regular exam, this was the hardest test I ever took in my life, I passed but lots of thinking involved. I had worked level II almost III for 4 years for experience transferring from Adult ICU with 20+ years of experience and this was do able but hard. I did also do a seminar first and use the core curriculum for study.

"On top of that I'm a lactation counselor." I have gone to the classes but I am more into the high acuity patients, the sicker the better, I'm not so much into the well baby thing.

I don't work L&D but I attend a lot of deliveries being a high risk RN in the NICU. There are two of us guys where I work and two in L&D it does not seem to be a problem for most. There are cultural problems with some who don't want any men in the delivery room at all, but when told I am there to save the baby as it is in distress and may die they seem to change their minds. If available and time permits I call another team for them, but we normally get a last minute call to attend the delivery, and our units are not next door to each other, I must do the recovery.

This was on my face-book page this morning what do you think? Stole from a fellow NICU RN :)

Do any of you draw blood cultures? Do you know why they are drawn in two sets an hour apart? If you took Micro you should. Why do you draw them when the patient has a temp. vs a febrile? You should. Most say this info is useless and that is crazy if you care for your patients, you should know what and why you do things to them. If you care you can look up the answers or you can PM me and I will let you know. Jeff

Yes, they should be able to, it says a lot about the person and if they have been able to maintain themselves or not. I want someone working for me that can plan and prepare for the future. It is called responsibility, and if you can't take care of yourself how can I hire you to take care of someone else? I don't like workers who continually take chances and then can't back them up. It is fine to take a risk now and then, I actually encourage it, but only those risk you can afford to take and are prepared for. For example, I love to race cars and to mountain bike, but I carry long term disability insurance just in case I get hurt, so I can still take care of my self and my family, if an accident occurs.

What was the response to renal dose dopamine? What is the uric acid levels Blood and urine? I would like to know also the renal ultrasound result and what the blood flow to the kidneys show.