Mimi2RN

Mimi2RN ASN, RN

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  1. Spinoff, NICU levels - does the definition need changing?

    Mimi2RN replied to LilPeanut's topic in NICU, Neonatal

    We are a level II, but keep babies from about 27-28 weeks, and over a kilo. Some are on vents or CPAP (we loved Vapotherm.....). We send them out for major problems, including anything that might...

  2. Drying up Breastmilk

    Mimi2RN replied to Justhere's topic in Ob/Gyn

    Call down to dietary... I need some cabbage leaves and shredded carrots!!! :rotfl: :rotfl: :rotfl:

  3. dopamine and the neonate

    Mimi2RN replied to mmary2763's topic in NICU, Neonatal

    We use double lumen UVC's, and I like to double spike my TPN, so I don't have to keep giving heparin flushes to one lumen. If we have calcium gluconate boluses, we have to stop the tpn while that...

  4. Brady baby

    Mimi2RN replied to shearernurse's topic in NICU, Neonatal

    I love this diagnosis! Too true! With us, he would probably have had 4 hours being observed, but not admitted Also he'd have been fed at least 1 1/2 ounces of warm formula after his blood glucose was...

  5. Aspirating for blood when giving injections to infants?....Have the rules changed?

    Mimi2RN replied to DutchgirlRN's topic in Patient Medications

    Thanks,

  6. How did you hear about allnurses.com?

    Mimi2RN replied to Brian's topic in General Nursing

    Found it on another BB, and thought I would check it

  7. Aspirating for blood when giving injections to infants?....Have the rules changed?

    Mimi2RN replied to DutchgirlRN's topic in Patient Medications

    I'm not bashing MA's, I'm wondering if that's the reason that the person giving the injection had not been taught to aspirate. As I believe all RN's and LVN's have been taught to do so, what was this...

  8. Aspirating for blood when giving injections to infants?....Have the rules changed?

    Mimi2RN replied to DutchgirlRN's topic in Patient Medications

    Seems to me, we were taught to aspirate, and I still do. The staff in the dr's office now are usually MA's, and don't get the same training. As for needles, you can still use a 25 ga on a baby. I've...

  9. What are you worth as a NICU nurse?

    Mimi2RN replied to betha005's topic in NICU, Neonatal

    Our starting pay for new grads is $31.00 per hour. It's hospital wide, doesn't matter where you work. Eval at 6 months, and then annually with raises of 2-4%. Nobody in my knowledge has ever got 4%,...

  10. Three minute scrub?

    Mimi2RN replied to Mimi2RN's topic in NICU, Neonatal

    We went to a 30 second hand wash last year, but recently went back to that and covergowns after one of our babes came down with RSV. As he was too sick to be held, I don't think the lack of covergowns...

  11. A Dangerous Scam!!

    Mimi2RN replied to gwenith's topic in General Nursing

    When I was in Grade School, before the days of vaccinations, a fourteen year old boy died from Tetorifice. He had a cut on his hand, and worked on a farm. The kind of thing you never forget....

  12. Looking for warm area by mountains and ocean

    Mimi2RN replied to geekgolightly's topic in California Nursing

    St. Johns in Oxnard has a NICU, and so does Ventura County Medical Center, in Ventura, maybe 15 minutes away on the freeway. I have no idea about salaries. Housing is expensive, but lots of people...

  13. RNs entering all their own orders - no unit clerks?

    Mimi2RN replied to Town & Country's topic in General Nursing

    Our docs usually generate the orders on the computer, as soon as they are entered, they can be read in the Order Processing Center and the Pharmacy. After they have been entered, an ancillary will...

  14. neonatal IV sticks

    Mimi2RN replied to smbluthing's topic in NICU, Neonatal

    We use VeniGuards, they don't tear up the skin. Other hospital use Tegaderm or Opsite, but the area over the catheter insertion site should NEVER be covered with anything else. We still have nurses...

  15. Taking an infant's temp.

    Mimi2RN replied to kbclary4's topic in Ob/Gyn

    The first temp on our newborns is always rectal, after that we do axillary, unless the baby is below 97.6. We recheck those with a rectal. We found a baby with imperforate orifice not long ago. He had...

  16. So, she does drugs... (advice please)

    Mimi2RN replied to christinaquilter's topic in General Nursing

    When what you have is "hearsay", that's not proof. If you saw her using illicit drugs, that could be used as evidence. "He said" or "she said" don't stand up in a Court of Law. I don't think there is...

  17. New Grandson, need your input please, 33weeks

    Mimi2RN replied to realnursealso/LPN's topic in NICU, Neonatal

    Yes, you're right. He should qualify for Synagis, and hopefully could get his first shot before going home. Our hospital also runs a Synagis Clinic through the winter months, and this time of year the...

  18. New Grandson, need your input please, 33weeks

    Mimi2RN replied to realnursealso/LPN's topic in NICU, Neonatal

    Congratulations on your new grandbaby! Sounds like he's doing very well. NG/OG tubes are all normal for babies of this gestation, as everyone else has said. In my experience, it's not unusual to have...

  19. neonatal IV sticks

    Mimi2RN replied to smbluthing's topic in NICU, Neonatal

    Sometimes it can be tight, but for safety needles, it's not a bad system. As long as I have help with someone holding the baby, it's OK. It can be hard pulling that out, then screwing on our wonderful...

  20. "Never trust a 35 weeker"

    Mimi2RN replied to prmenrs's topic in NICU, Neonatal

    We had a little one born at 33 weeks, mom was PROM at 26 weeks, had steroids, bedrest. As soon as he was eating and warm in a 72 degree nursery, he was sent out the door, barely 35 weeks. Came back to...

  21. Uterine rupture & maternal code

    Mimi2RN replied to RNLaborNurse4U's topic in Ob/Gyn

    We had a c/s where the uterus was ruptured, baby's upper body was in the abdomen when the doc opened her up. The surprising thing was that the placenta was still attached, there had not been a lot of...

  22. what is the meaning of the nursing lamp...?

    Mimi2RN replied to Jake_weird03's topic in Nursing Student Assistance

    It's supposed to be the lamp that Florence Nightingale carried around the wards in the Crimea. She was known as "The Lady with the lamp". Maybe it would be useful for you to read her biography, or at...

  23. How do you deal with anti-OB people?

    Mimi2RN replied to ParasMom's topic in General Nursing

    No reason you couldn't breast feed a baby that size. Your other comments-the baby was on O2, and was a mag baby, may have been the reason you couldn't breast feed at first. Depending on the way a baby...

  24. nursing really a viable option at 40? (just starting out, but tired!)

    Mimi2RN replied to km05's topic in General Nursing

    I graduated at 43, and I'm still working 20 years later. Older nurses bring a lot of past experience, even if it's a second or third career. I started out as a volunteer on an OB/Peds unit, so I had...

  25. NICU duties

    Mimi2RN replied to BlaineCM's topic in NICU, Neonatal

    Thanks, we recently had a little 27-28 weeker with a grade 4 bleed. I'm wondering if this would have helped prevent that. We do minimal stim on these babies, keep them in a quiet room, but I don't...