BlueYYsRN

I shouldn't have looked at this thread right before hubby brings home dinner. Wound care is so not my thing!

When the former micro preemie, trach chronic kid comes back to visit as a walking talking smiling three year old.

Last pay period I put in 105.5 hours. Being part-time I am nowhere near that amount this pay-period...Thank God! In these last three weeks I have had the sickest of the sick and the saddest of the sad. One baby is already gone from overwhelming st...

I can't post much of anything that is affirmative right now. I went back in last night and realized I would not be able to attend the funeral because I worked last night and the funeral is today at 2:30, its over an hour away and I have to go back i...

The third baby passed yesterday morning at 0100. I had a long talk with my nurse manager yesterday and she was very supportive and told me I had done a wonderful job taking care of all those sick babies. It was really nice to hear and it was really...

My husband and I went to the local comedy club tonight...we had a great time and laughed alot. When I got home I saw that my nurse manager had called and when I called her back she told me that my baby had died about an hour after I left this mornin...

Our unit is very sad right now. One baby we had with us for over five months and had been discharged home a few weeks ago came back through the ER coding and was later taken off life support. Another we have had for six months was set for discharge...

{{{Elizabells}}} Sweetie, first of all I am sorry you feel like a burden to the nurses you are assigned. Its nothing personal. Secondly, its always difficult to lose a patient you have been working with. Thats when reality hits you in the face th...

My motto is..."If you can talk to me then I probably can't take care of you." When another non-NICU nurse says it, I tell them how much I admire them because adults scare the hell out of me. I really love my babies. Its all about seeing them get be...

We dont host memorials but we do try to attend them. We will try to put something together for the parents if possible, especially if the child was with us for a long time. We have a digital camera and try to take pics of the kids as they grow. I,...

First of all, you need the adult crap to get your liscense. Go with it. You never know what you might see that captures your interest even more? Secondly, you may just be wary of the science classes. It seems like so much to learn in so little ti...

I work part time in NICU. I work 12 hour nights and I love it! I work 2 12's a week including every third weekend. This is great because if I work my schedule right I get a long stretch off every month (like 10 days).

You are right on. Maybe it would help if we stopped insulting each other. Am I "blue collar trailer trash" because I am a Registered Nurse who obtained an ASN before taking the same boards as the nuirse who obtained a BSN? I generally dont even res...

[ And last but not least, a bad day in home health will include running over a chicken. :rotfl: Poor chicken:rotfl: Im sure it wasnt funny when it happened but OMG!:rotfl: What have you done to deserve such karma???

We had a case several months ago (we really believe the family brought it in) and it was determined that the child had to be 1:1 until d/c. The infection control people said if another case came up we would have to be reported to the state. We were...

What kind of isolation do you do for rotavirus? Are these babies 1:1?

Parents who dont communicate with each other so one calls then 15 - 20 minutes later the other calls...usually at hands on time. Parents who think they should dictate who their baby's nurse will be. Doctors who want to do unnecessary painful procedur...

I havent evr seen that myself. How utterly sad.

I think anyone who works in OB-GYN, Nursery or NICU for awhile is confronted with this. I remember about 12 years ago, there was an emergency c/s for a preterm, non-viable baby to save the moms life. I dont remember why she had to deliver but she ...

Not in the least. If you have had to "care" for some of these "miracles" you may have a different perspective.

We have to label all our breastmilk with a barcode for that particular mother and when it is time to feed the baby we have to scan the barcode like we scan medication for the electronic medication administration record. I got the giggles the other n...

Once, there was this lady and she had twins. She didnt know what to name them so she named them after the foods she craved when she was pregnant...Lemon jello and Orange jello! :rotfl: Seriously, I first heard that story in 1989, right after I grad...

:rotfl: Surely you jest! I wonder if we would have to barcode and EMAR it.

Kristina, OMG! Take a deep breath girl... Where would you like to go? Like you said its a big country. It definately sounds like you need a change. Being miserable with your job and with where you live probably means you are miserable most the ti...

Gompers you are so right! Sometimes I think to myself "And they PAY me for this!" I love my job. I think the pay is great, as a matter of fact they started me out $6/hour more than what I asked for on my application.