IlovebabyfeetRN

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1. Need tips on dealing with neonatal abstinence

   IlovebabyfeetRN replied to minky84's topic in NICU, Neonatal

   I think you would be surprised at how much more quickly their symptoms are controlled on methadone and they don't have to suffer the morphine/phenobarb trial and get "really bad" first. Plus, I was...

2. Need tips on dealing with neonatal abstinence

   IlovebabyfeetRN replied to minky84's topic in NICU, Neonatal

   We are a smaller unit, so we are often able to keep an NAS baby in an isolation room where it can be kept darker and quieter. Minimal stimulation is best. They very often need very few layers of...

3. What Is Your Most Gross, Yucky, Disgusting Nursing Horror Story?

   IlovebabyfeetRN replied to yazisizit's topic in Nursing Humor

   OB is not immune from gruesomeness! One of my favorite births I attended as a NICU nurse was where a baby was being delivered by a rather cocky OB attending who at a previous hospital I happen to know...

4. Stupid Nurse Trick... Don't try this at home... or work!

   IlovebabyfeetRN replied to TXRN02's topic in Nursing Humor

   How about when your earrings bang off your stethoscope? OUCH. I have also had to stitch up scrub pockets that have jumped onto the door

5. How about your favorite Old Wives Tales related to health?

   IlovebabyfeetRN replied to NurseyTonyaLPN's topic in Nursing Humor

   L&D nurses will understand this one....a patient who lists pitocin on their medication allergies...better not go into labor or breastfeed then!! ;-0 We get a lot of Spanish families who curl a...

6. Stupid Nurse Trick... Don't try this at home... or work!

   IlovebabyfeetRN replied to TXRN02's topic in Nursing Humor

   I remember in nursing school being excited to hang my first bag of tpn (remember getting excited about these things in nursing school??)...well just as my instructor was warning me to clamp the...

7. Funny/happy NICU moments needed

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

   How about projectile stools? A couple weeks ago I was on my last feed of a shift (had four feeder growers and was pretty much running in a circle for 12 hours) and was cuddling the little guy while...

8. Strange experience yesterday, feedback please...

   IlovebabyfeetRN replied to LovingLearning's topic in General Students

   You had your patient first in mind. Congratulations to you, that is the best way to be the best nurse. Unfortunately, it doesn't sound like the RN assigned to the patient is anywhere near your league....

9. Ethical question

   IlovebabyfeetRN replied to AmericanChai's topic in NICU, Neonatal

   Thank you. I hope they can remember me in a positive way. I think even when you know it is the best decision, you still question the what ifs. I very much believe this baby was suffering...especially...

10. Ethical question

    IlovebabyfeetRN replied to AmericanChai's topic in NICU, Neonatal

    Thank you all for this thread. I had my first experience this past weekend with elective removal of life support for a 16 day old 23 2/7 weeker. His first blood culture was positive for group beta...

11. You Know You're a NICU Nurse When...

    IlovebabyfeetRN replied to SteveNNP's topic in NICU, Neonatal

    Awws! I love it. Also when you have them plastic wrapped under humidity and they poke a teeny foot or hand through to check the "outside world" or when you nest them and cover with a blanket and come...

12. You Know You're a NICU Nurse When...

    IlovebabyfeetRN replied to SteveNNP's topic in NICU, Neonatal

    What is funnier is when they bring in preemie diapers and preemie clothes for their preemie 38 weeker....all 7 or 8 pounds of him/her!! Makes me

13. If a baby in your normal newborn nursery

    IlovebabyfeetRN replied to BittyBabyGrower's topic in Ob/Gyn

    If the baby is asymptomatic and/or the infant cannot be properly isolated, I can see definitely why not NICU. Why unleash the potential for MRSA amongst 600 gram infants on ventilators with no...

14. You Know You're a NICU Nurse When...

    IlovebabyfeetRN replied to SteveNNP's topic in NICU, Neonatal

    You know you are a NICU nurse when you understand the term "projectile stool." ....and when you find yourself praising your maker that it didn't hit you in the face

15. You Know You're a NICU Nurse When...

    IlovebabyfeetRN replied to SteveNNP's topic in NICU, Neonatal

    You know you are a NICU nurse when you lay your patient across your lap and pat his butt to calm him when he is fussy. You know you are a NICU nurse when you bathe your patient in a wash basin sitting...