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We often times us press n seal wrap to cover IV sites and other sites, it sticks to skin impressively well. We use it for showers and baths. Good Luck to you.

We have 3 mid-levels that work in our PICU. One is an NP and two are PA's. They cover 0700-1900, 7 days a week. The NP is wonderful. Just like you mentioned, she has the nursing background and grasps the scope of nursing practice. She too is willing to help as needed. Best of luck to you!

I think they call it "Irish Twins" (siblings born within a year of each other). Good luck!!!

I am a pediatric/pediatric intensive care nurse. Our foundation just purchased us a Vein Viewer by Luminetx. It is very spendy. We were told $25,000. It is large, but easy to manuever. It is great for looking at my veins, but they are very easy to see. I have had success with it on some patients and I have found it to be completely useless on others. Everyone on here keeps saying it is good for peds, but for chubby baby/toddler hands and feet it hasn't proved to be that useful in my opinion as it does only penetrate to 1/8" per the rep that was here last week. Don't get me wrong, I am happy to have it, but I like to use it as an secondary means of locating a vein instead of a primary. It is nice for when I think I'm feeling something or seeing something and then I am able to look with veinviewer and make sure. I'm guessing it will take time, but hopefully it will decrease our overall number of attemps. Good luck! Check with you manager and see if you can have the rep bring one for a day and you can all check it out.

I too am young, married and have no kids and I can think of lots of things to do. Sleep in, go for a walk, go to the gym, read a good book, clean the house, take a nap, go shopping, have lunch with a friend.....the list goes on. Good luck!

We hep lock our pediatric PICC's according to weight. I always have to check the chart, but I think that it is 35kg is 3 ml of 100u/ml. We sometimes will leave it KVO if they have lots of antibiotics, but usually it is hep locked so they can get up and move.