Preemie2RN

oh and properly working and setup suction for each!

In our unit, each baby has bag/mask set, connected and O2 flow on, checked and cleaned each shift and replaced if/when needed. Too risky not to have it there and ready to use when you consider how tiny our patients are and the amount of time (too ...

I need help! My primary has a double stoma ostomy bag that absolutely will not stay on! We are having to change the bag at least every shift if not more often. Our Ostomy nurses have even run out of tricks! Any suggestions?? We are using Hollister on...

Hey all, I took my NCLEX-PN on Monday and shut off at 85 questions. Now I've read numerous posts about the odds of passing at 85 BUT.................... I am currently enrolled in a LPN to RN accelerated program that I will have to withdraw from if...

I am also a NICU nurse and I have the habit of looking for "toaster head" in every one I see and telling my husband "he/she was a preemie!" and trying to figure out what syndrome kids have when I go places like my kids' school! Horrible, right?! I ...

We use Sage Oral care packets- it contains several swabs, mouth rinse (used on the swabs) and a mouth moisturizer. We have had really good success with this product.

PVT or Pearson Vue Trick is trying to reregister to take your exam through Pearson Vue the same day after taking boards then getting either a "good" pop-up (you can't reregister so supposedly you passed) or the "bad" pop-up taking you to the credit c...

Another thing, Listerine is extremely caustic on an existing sore! Best thing to use if trying to soothe a sore (and no prescription) is the milk of mag and just rinse it around. I've also heard of the "old wives trick" of putting Alum (its a pickli...

Ask the doc for some Kenalog cream (Triamcinolone Acetonide 0,1%-dental paste) It creates a thin film over the area and slightly numbs it. It may be tough to get on at first-you have to kind of air dry the ulcer and then dab it on-not smear. There'...

My hubby and I are doing P90X and yes it was tough at first, but it has definitely been worth it! I feel so much better! I work a split week M, T, Th then T, Th, F night shift so I had to do it where my "off day" was on a day that I worked for sure...

Dont worry too much! I also had a TON of SATA and several reworded questions-I was beginning to second guess myself!!! Also took 75 questions and felt like I was in another body when I left the test center! I passed! Have you tried the PearsonVue tri...

I worked as a Patient care tech at Children's while in school. They have FT, PT and Zero based positions that work well around school. Good luck!

Ok, so this is an interesting topic for me as I went in to my doctor's office here in LR to get a TB skin test almost a year and a half ago. I was already an LPN and going back for RN, the medical assistant at the doctor's office knew this. She sta...

Helo everyone! I am a December graduate working in a level IV NICU and I LOVE it! It is actually the sister NICU to the one I was in as a patient in 77! I even work with the doctor who took care of me! I worked for two years as a patient care tech i...

Hey everyone! Just wondering if there are any good books that anyone recommends for the new graduate NICU nurse? Thanks for suggestions!!

Thanks a bunch! I am not new to the NICU but new to the RN role and I am a person that wants to know the whys and whynots, not just that that's how it's done! We have a lot of nurses that I work with that cannot tell me a good explanation for why we...

Ok, so everyone in my graduating class that has used this "trick" so far has been 100% dead on. Even those that failed, so I'm a believer that it works!

Oh yeah, you can purchase them anywhere you want. There will be someone there selling them on Welcome day but it's easier to buy them before!

Hello! I just graduated again from Baptist in December (I did LPN, then went back for the LPN to RN) and the dress code is solid navy scrubs for class and solid white for clinicals with a solid navy lab jacket. 95% White leather shoes, no open bac...

WOW!! I wish I would have known about this last year when I took my PN boards!! I took RN boards on Friday and another classmate told me about the "trick" so I thought what the heck. When I got home I tried it, got the "good" pop-up! Well, I still...

Not really funny but happy. I am a 32 y/o ex 29 weeker about to start working in the daughter NICU of the NICU that I was in, in 1977. Also I will be working with one of my original doctors who was a resident at the time I was there and is now our ma...

I passed!!!! Yay!!!

Hey everybody! My name is Julie, I just graduated from the LPN prgram at Baptist and will start back to the LPN to RN on Jan. 5, 09. I work at AR Children's in the NICU and LOVE it!! I worked at Baptist for five months before starting school in Or...

Some of the names we've had or have now: Kweli Eleve (yes, pronounce like aleve the med)! Sixto L-a (pronounced La dash a) Ro-niyah We had a Nyveah Dymond Adonis Caori (pronounced cori) Halo I know there's been more but I can't think of them at the m...

Usually just casual, but no jeans-Baptist policy is NO JEANS!! LOL!! Also like they said no shorts- I wore some khaki type pants and a sweater (it was cold that day) last year and will probably do the same this year. Some people wore their scrubs ...