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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 bacte...

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 m...

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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 t...

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...

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 cha...

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 ab...

"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 i...

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 ...

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 ...

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.

It all is dependent on the severity of the withdraws the baby shows. Some are so severe the baby has a hard time eating and sleeping, so they will need to be given OG feedings or IV's with or without meds to help with the withdraws, I prefer with med...

I agree with your instructors advice for many reasons. 1 When you apply for a job as an RN you will have some medical experience to put down. 2 You will learn things not taught in school that prepares you to be a better RN. 3 You will become more co...

I worked in hematology for 14 years before going into nursing and now the NICU. If the specimen is good when you it leaves your unit it will be good to run forever. Clotting is a fast process not a slow one. You have to be nice to the blood as yo...

You are wrong, I worked in hematology for 14 years before going into nursing and now the NICU. If the specimen is good when you it leaves your unit it will be good to run forever. Clotting is a fast process not a slow one. The longer it takes means s...

Sounds to me that you need to talk to your PMD and see what has in his offer, it may or not be worth it at all. You need to get a gurantee like Konan O'brian did for hosting the tonight show, if he was so anti NP before. You also need to discuss abou...

Look under the NICU forum there is some discussion there about this, including tips.

Just needed to vent, and wonder if you guys think that I have a reason to be frustrated? Yea, you do have reason to be frustrated. I can't imagine how the transfer committee is feeling, there are so many details they are trying to cover for the logi...

The lab will never be perfect and they know when a result is not consistent with life like a PT result greater than 35 sec as most humans start to spontaneously bleed out at that point. Or a potassium level of 10 they are pretty sure it is contaminat...

the lab is not perfect but they try hard to be. jeff

The nurse should know not to start the dose when they do not knowing the trough level! If it is important enough to order the test, it is important enough to check the value. If it was not important it would not be done. The Lab person should not hav...