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For those of you that use Vapotherm, or are trialing vapotherm--what do you think of it? we don't use it yet in my unit, but I would like to know what others think of it... Thanks for your thoughts...

In my unit, a level III + ECMO, our ratios are never more than 2:1. A vented baby is almost always 1:1, very occassionally we might have a very stable baby with a vented baby. The charge nurse does not have an assignment, and the transport nurse do...

I just recently purchased a set of custom made orthotics--from a site on ebay!! They were $75.00. They sent me a foam impression kit which I sent back, and with in a week, I had my orthotics. After an initial breaking in period, they are absolutel...

Yes--you are right--and hopefully those nurses caring for your dad did not let bitterness show that they had to be there on Christmas day.

Working holidays goes along with the privilege of being a nurse-it's one of those things we do. I have worked every other Christmas Eve and Christmas for the past 14 years. I could be working somewhere else that closes down for Christmas every year...

At our hospital-when it is our turn to work either Christmas or New Year-we work both the day and the eve-but we get paid holiday pay for both shifts. You are fortunate in this field to have had the last 8 years of Christmas's off. Ours is a profes...

And I always think of the ones who have died as angels who have come to teach us lessons that only they can teach...I have seen many tiny babies touch hundreds of people in their short time here on earth. I feel just as privileged working with a fam...

We are using Vapotherm more and more, and WE LOVE IT!! My primary pt and her twin were both extubated today after being intubated and on vents for 41 days, and they are doing beautifully!! They just seem to settle in right away, rather than using a...

Exactly! He is an adult...and he consciously opted to steal something that he couldn't pay for. I would not want him working at the LTC facility that my grandma is in--who's to say he wouldn't have a "misjudgement" and steal something of hers...

I tend to also agree with Chris and TNRNMAN. This person knew that to steal was wrong, and if he/she didn't know it was wrong, then they do not have any business being responsible for the lives and care of people. The question I have is this... If ...

I too want to go down there to help-but we need organization and guidance. We can't just hop on a plane and get there. Ideas anyone? Where can we start calling and what can we do? I feel so helpless sitting here in MN where I am safe. All evening...

Have some compassion--it's no longer about what "they should have done". It's about what can we do to help them now--some of those people were too poor to have a way to get out of there ahead of time-if anybody should have done anything to help get ...

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I don't think that being expected to pass the drug calc tes with 90 - 100% is "unfair". When it comes to the responsibility we have with meds-there is NO room for error. especially even more so when it comes to peds and neonatal. I would not want ...

In my unit we are staffed 1:1 with vent babies and freshly extubated, and with new admissions and 2:1 with everything else. We are all level 3 & 4 here. Feeder/growers go to a completely separate intermediate care unit, where they are still sta...

hi BabyNurse513--I realize that, and I apologize if I seemed to imply that--I really didn't mean to. Just wanted to let you know. It's a policy that I definitely don't agree with. I've thought about going back to scholl for my bachelor's degree--b...

Hi BittyBabyGrower--Sorry--didn't meant to rehash an old subject, and I'm sure that BabyGrower513 also was not implying anything by sharing her unit's policy--it's just that I love what I do, and I am passionate about my job, and I feel that 2 more y...

Does a bachelor's degree make one a better NICU nurse?

NoCrumping--I couldn't have said that any better. When I go to work, i am amazed at how I fall in love with my job all over again. where else can we go and one day have the sickest baby in the unit, and the next day, pick up a baby and feed it a bo...

If you end up in Rochester, be careful about working at Mayo--they are not the nicest organization to work for...at least in the TwinCities you have options. Mayo can treat their employees however badly they want to because they think they are great...

i don't know--it may not be the nicest neighborhood, but it's also not the worst. I work at Mpls Childrens, and live 5 blocks from there. I've never had any problems. Of course-I don't walk to and from work. You just have to be smart. To the orig...

C-CRAP rather than CPAP anybody agree? I doubt that a parent would appreciate that one--but how about us NICU nurses?

Had to laugh at the names you mentioned--we must work in the same NICU--LOL!!

Hi!! I think that what you were seeing was a high frequency oscillating ventilator, or what we affectionately call "The Oscillator". It is kind of the big guns of ventilators. When preemies are on conventional ventilators, they often develop stif...

Hi!! I think that what you were seeing was a high frequency oscillating ventilator, or what we affectionately call "The Oscillator". It is kind of the big guns of ventilators. When preemies are on conventional ventilators, they often develop stif...