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1. What Was Orientation Like For You

   dance45 replied to 4jen's topic in NICU

   Depending on your personality (and let's face it, all nurses are a bit anal-retentive), you're going to be stressed out in orientation no matter what. It's the nature of the beast. It's a new environment, new people, new situations, things you've n...

2. Parents and Firing Nurses

   dance45 replied to sunny17's topic in NICU

   "Another situation that comes to mind when parents want to "fire" their baby's nurse is when you happen to have their baby who has been doing very well then they decide to crump on your shift. The parent's tend to think somehow you are at fault even...

3. Morphine Administration of very small doses

   dance45 replied to dance45's topic in NICU

   To Preemie RN Kate and Steve. Thanks for the input. I came up with 0.25 cc for the dose if diluted out to 0.2 mg morphine/ml. Because if you draw up 0.1 ml of the 2 mg/ml concentration and add 0.9 ml NS, you still have 0.2 mg/ml. It's not a 1:1 ...

4. 1 week left of orientation- scared to death

   dance45 replied to BoonersmomRN's topic in NICU

   I feel your pain. I recently went back to work after 7 years off and I had worked NICU previously for 8 years. Talk about nervous as a long-tailed cat in a room full of rocking chairs. I felt like the biggest fraud on the block, and still do many ...

5. Morphine Administration of very small doses

   dance45 posted a topic in NICU

   Back to nursing after several (and I do mean several) years off. Hence I haven't given morphine in quite some time. Just wondering about IV morphine preparation for extremely small doses in the NICU. Ordered 0.05 mg morphine slow IV push q 4-8. ...