iceNICUnurse

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1. Would you consider a home birth?

   iceNICUnurse replied to 2curlygirls's topic in NICU, Neonatal

   I have to say that I dont understand where you get that the infant mortality rate is higest where there is good health care. In Iceland we have the lowest infant mortality rate in the world, 2.5 of a...

2. Speaking of Noise In The Nicu....I have a ?

   iceNICUnurse replied to RNwntaB's topic in NICU, Neonatal

   This is the same thing I allways say! If they are healthy enough to make so much noise...they must be ready to go home. The noise in our unit is more from the staff and the monitor alarms than from...

3. oral vs. nasal intubation

   iceNICUnurse replied to preemieRNkate's topic in NICU, Neonatal

   We have them nasally 90% of the time. They are much more stable nasally and they almost never go out by accident. I dont like oral tubes, the tape gets wet from saliva and the baby is constantly...

4. How to treat umbilical cord?

   iceNICUnurse replied to sofiam's topic in NICU, Neonatal

   Same here. But we do tub baths with the cord still on. No problems if we make sure to dry it properly

5. Best Practive for bathing neonates?

   iceNICUnurse replied to BABY--RN's topic in NICU, Neonatal

   We don´t use any soap at all on any newborns. Just plain tap water (Our tap water is wery clean). We teach the parents to wait as long as possible to start using soap b/c it makes the skin dry....

6. Funny/happy NICU moments needed

   iceNICUnurse replied to 2curlygirls's topic in NICU, Neonatal

   Just today we discharged twins who had been with us for 12 weeks and gone throug everything there is I think. The smiles on the parents and the hug and kind words from them were wonderful. This is...

7. NICU Burnout...need to cry

   iceNICUnurse replied to BlueYYsRN's topic in NICU, Neonatal

   ((((((Big Hug to you))))) I hope you will feel better tomorrow.

8. hmm maybe time for a change....

   iceNICUnurse replied to Annken's topic in NICU, Neonatal

   I think everyone feels this way sometimes. It is so normal when things have been hard to want to go away. Somehow I have always gotten over these feelings but I sure have had them. If you feel the...

9. Would you consider a home birth?

   iceNICUnurse replied to 2curlygirls's topic in NICU, Neonatal

   I totally agree with you on this one! I would never have a home birth. I have seen too many things go

10. looking for bath protocols

    iceNICUnurse replied to jnsatc's topic in NICU, Neonatal

    We dont tuch our Mec asp kids or PPHN either. Like one of our docs sais: "it is better to be a here dirty than clean in heaven". They usually get better in a few days anyway so we just

11. looking for bath protocols

    iceNICUnurse replied to jnsatc's topic in NICU, Neonatal

    We bathe our kids tvice a week. As soon as they are fairly stable the parents do the bathing. We only use plain water, no soap at all. Linen are changed as needed. We have a very low infection...

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

    iceNICUnurse replied to LilPeanut's topic in NICU, Neonatal

    This is so complicated where you all are. Where I work we are level everything. We just take every sick newborn no matter what. We only send out complicated cardiac surgery kids but all the others we...

13. Preemie resuscitation in regards to gestational age

    iceNICUnurse replied to d2k2's topic in NICU, Neonatal

    We have a 24 week policy but it has happend that we tried to resuscitate a 23+some days with mostly bad results. But it all comes down to the neo on call this is not really a written

14. Really upset, bad shift last night

    iceNICUnurse replied to Gompers's topic in NICU, Neonatal

    ((((((Big Hug))))) Belive me I have been there too. Don´t beet yourself up about this I am pretty sure that you did everything you could for this

15. What type of surfactant do you use?

    iceNICUnurse replied to dawngloves's topic in NICU, Neonatal

    Hi! We use Curosurf and have been using it for a long time. We start out with one dose and then the docs tend to play it by ear. If the baby is asking for a lot more 02 then they give a second dose...