scrabblern RN

What is the absolute quietest nursing specialty? A job where one doesn’t need to verbally communicate.

Hello everyone! I was hired as a Triage/Advice Nurse in Feb of last year and suffered an acoustic incident on the job in May. I worked in a small call center environment, and the positions have been moved to remote due to COVID after my injury....

Not much changed while I kept in touch. I have been out of close touch for some time, and what I can see from the unit posts is that there are a lot of new faces...

All right, tonight is my 3/3 in a row, night shift and last night was probably one of the worst nigths my unit had, the only worse thing would be a patient dying. On my 1st night the unit was busy and understaffed. I started out with 2 patients, but...

I can't imagine the stress you're going through and seeing people who deliberately choose to harm themselves and endanger their environment only to end up in a situation beyond salvation, leaving you as a witness. There's little I can say to ea...

FYI... I moved to a Union hospital on West Coast in 2014. I can't even describe how much better our working conditions are. We're taken care of, our assignments have been fantastic and that really reflects in patient care we provide.

Hello, Does anyone work in a unit that uses VPT? Our unit is looking into possibly using this method for our patients but have not found any policies. Would anyone be interested in sharing the info with the rest of us? I'm aware of the study in AZ,...

Hi, I am a neonatal nurse and this is really out of my scope so I'm asking for help. My friend's husband just turned 65 and he's been disabled with neuro degenerative disease for many years. He is on IV abx now and according to his wife they had to ...

This is in Oregon. I looked at visiting nurse association website and saw that they don't have a branch in Oregon. Made me wonder.

She said she feels uncomfortable with it. I tried to explain pros and cons but she didn't really want to listen. The staff at ER also suggested he needed a PICC.

Hi everyone, I will be doing education on SIDS to both parents and nurses of NICU patients...in our unit we tend to swaddle babies 'till almost the very end. Back to sleep is taught once by our OT prior to discharge. I did a little bit of article di...

@NicuGal: How long have you been doing HOB flat at 33-34 weeks in your unit? Do you find that the babies spit up more with HOB flat at that age, since lots of them still need gavage... Most of the nurses where I work keep babies with HOB up until the...

At what point does your unit take babies out of the isolette, and why do you wait 'till you take them out? We've just had a thermoregulation policy change, making most of our babies stay in a lot longer...

We filter TPN and clear fluids in the NICU, but the Level II nursery (different unit) doesn't filter anything. Go figure.

i was browsing online at various hospitals for jobs and comer children's in chicago has 2 nicu positions open - both are rotating shifts! rotating shifts are a known health hazard. with that known, i am surprised that anyone still offers them! anyone...

Hi, I work in a 30 bed family centered unit. I am pretty new to NICU but have worked in critical care previously. "My" NICU does not have volunteer cuddlers. We usually have only one or two techs in the unit and they are usually pretty busy. We have...

Hi everyone, In January I will start studying toward a one-year graduate certificate in Clinical Informatics at Oregon Health Science University. I am currently an RN with a little over four years of experience. I have also worked as a Systems Analy...

our state does not have unions. this has been a chronic situation, it's been happening over the past several months. nurses have been to manager and complained about assignments and safety multiple times. everyone is required to work 8 extra hours pe...

Hi everyone, My unit has had a volunteer cuddle/hold group since last April. I work in a 34-bed unit. Last year our Unit Based Council voted that cuddling would not be a standard of practice, meaning that we have to have a parental consent form sign...

I just wanted to let everyone know that as of April of 2009 our NICU has implemented a cuddling program. It has been quite a trip from an idea to actually getting it all together... (mounds of paperwork). We now have four active volunteers and will b...

i agree that in most cases the two roles could interfere... i was thinking if i pursued FNP, since i work as an RN in Neonatal ICU there would be little role confusion if i chose to continue working as an RN. obviously most RNs train to provide advan...

i am 5ft9in and whenever i have to draw multiple labs from a baby who is in an open crib, i do it on a weight scale. the scales are at least 1/2ft taller than open cribs we have so that helps me quite a bit.

our ot/pt does it every day except on weekends

We have a booklet that we give parents... it contains orientation to NICU, medical terminology, etc. Also we have info that is geared more to the age of baby and its specific medical condition -- these are separate sheets that we add into a folder th...

I am a critical care RN with a fear of needles. I used to shake and sweat when giving a subQ... and now I'm at the point where I do OK starting an IV and doing art gasses. I still kind of get uncomfortable but it's nowhere near how it used to be. I'...