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:nono: This little on has to be severe IUGR possibly 23 weeks. The big question I have is-what about her head? What I would give to have 15 minutes alone with her medical record. Too many unanswered questions for our nicu brains!!

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Hopefully you will hook up with a good mentor who will show you around and give you a good overview of their unit. It is interesting to watch the teamwork between ancillary departments. I think the main thing to get our of this experience is exactly that. Nursing is not just about one person or nursing staff, rather the entire hospital team. Just sit back and enjoy it. This is one of the rare occassions you DON"T have to do anything!!

I passed my RNC using Core Curriculum as did most of my co workers. It has an answer book that is helpful too.

I have been fortunate to stay in my home unit throughout my career and have seen may people come and go. I have seen what you are talking about and seen different responses. I think it is immature and harmful to the unit to "ignore" people coming in with experience because they have offended our ego. I have found that they are just passionate about what they are doing and want what is best for the unit just like we all do. If they seemed pushy I have to laugh because let's face it- that is the "nicu personality" isn't it? Have you ever seen a passive nicu nurse or therapist?? They have a wealth of knowledge and have seen things done other ways where we haven't had the opportunity to "think outside the box" of how we have always done things. We have the opposite problem. We have a fairly new graduate who thinks he's a Dr. This is his first job (we trained him) and he wants to have his hand in everything. Puts himself on every committee, writes policies and has his nose up the rear of the neos. He's a sweet guy but is such a know it all everyone makes fun of him. He will never get our respect because his arrogance is so offensive to everyone from us senior staff to new orientees and management. We have tried to lovingly tame him but he know SO MUCH he won't listen. Seems he was like toward the top of his class so he knows it all. (lol) We have decided to just let him fall and we will help him when he does. I say accept everyone and listen to what they have to say. Use it if you can and if you can't you have at least treated them with respect and they will respect you.