IttyBittyBabyRN

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1. Attendance

   IttyBittyBabyRN replied to IttyBittyBabyRN's topic in NICU, Neonatal

   Our manager actually said that anyone who possibly could should get intermittent FMLA. Work the system......We say all the time how we would LOVE some California nurses to come over here to Tennessee...

2. Attendance

   IttyBittyBabyRN posted a topic in NICU, Neonatal

   Sorry this is so long but I really want to get a perspective on how other hospital's attendance policies work. Consider what our hospital implemented this year: There is no longer ANY excused absence....

3. How to Hang a Tube Feeding in a Crib?

   IttyBittyBabyRN replied to mgturtle's topic in NICU, Neonatal

   I do the tongue depressor thing if they are in a small crib. If in the large metal crib, we usually string rubber bands together to stretch diagonally across the crib and hang the syringe from a...

4. Mandatory "on-call" scheduling

   IttyBittyBabyRN posted a topic in NICU, Neonatal

   Due to our having some short staffed days on our unit schedule, or manager has implemented a "mandatory on-call" policy. While our unit is in no way nearing a staffing crisis, I work in a unit where...

5. Advice for "seasoned" individual going for RN

   IttyBittyBabyRN replied to Buckaroo93's topic in General Nursing

   I had a BS when I decided to go to nursing school as well. It was the same length of time for me to go to the BSN program as it would have taken to do the other. My advice is to compare each based on...

6. Feeling inept :(

   IttyBittyBabyRN replied to twizzlers67's topic in NICU, Neonatal

   Don't quit!!! It is like this for everybody--I promise!!! I just changed from one unit to another after doing this job for 7 years and I still felt like a new grad orienting at the new unit. Once...

7. Trimming of Neonatal Fingernails

   IttyBittyBabyRN replied to ldh's topic in NICU, Neonatal

   I think I would vomit if I heard someone tell a parent that or saw them actually do it!!!! I view that as being very unsanitary for the parent and especially the baby. We always ask parents to use...

8. IV air bubbles

   IttyBittyBabyRN replied to I'mANurse!'s topic in NICU, Neonatal

   It's great that you care enough to find out for certain before feeling comfortable with this--more people should be that way. You can never get all the little bubbles out and "thumping" on it, like...

9. "cpap Head"

   IttyBittyBabyRN posted a topic in NICU, Neonatal

   Ok, need some info on everyone's CPAP experiences. Most of our babies have the kind with 2 corrugated hard plastic tubes held on their head with 2 blue sponges and a cap that has a band to secure...

10. hyperal use in the NICU

    IttyBittyBabyRN replied to Deb Bobola's topic in NICU, Neonatal

    Do many of you have lipids mixed in the same bag?? Do you run it in the UAC? We have to run the lipids separately in a PIV

11. Home birth vs. hospital

    IttyBittyBabyRN replied to rnmi2004's topic in Ob/Gyn

    I would bet that no one who works in a NICU would ever recommend at home birth!! It is somewhat of a blessing and a curse that the average mother has no idea of all the things that could go wrong...