Gompers BSN, RN

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    Name a NICU product you couldn't do without

    Gompers replied to SteveNNP's topic in NICU, Neonatal

    We trialed the Neosuckers and Little Suckers. They were great! But since we didn't order them, I've fashioned my own. I hate using a suction catheter to clean out the mouth because they're so small...
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    A Celebration for Gompers

    Gompers replied to Jolie's topic in NICU, Neonatal

    Well, baby isn't due until after Christmas so we don't know for sure when that first Christmas will be! Could be this year, could be next! :) I actually got one of those covers - it was one of the...
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    nicu pocket gear

    Gompers replied to adrienurse's topic in NICU, Neonatal

    We don't have stethescopes at each bedside, so we all have our own and swab them with alcohol between patients. In our pockets we usually have: pens, pencil, highlighter, calculator, scissors, and a...
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    Does your unit utilize support RNs without pt assignments?

    Gompers replied to Magilacutty's topic in NICU, Neonatal

    I work in a large level III unit and we don't use support RNs. Our charge nurse never has an assignment - if we get more than 3 admissions a shift, she might pick up one or two "easy" babies to help...
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    A Celebration for Gompers

    Gompers replied to Jolie's topic in NICU, Neonatal

    Thank you for your kind words, they are much appreciated! :) Played a new game today at the shower my coworkers threw me: pin the sperm on the
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    A Celebration for Gompers

    Gompers replied to Jolie's topic in NICU, Neonatal

    Two that I'm particularly fond of... The one where you melt different candy bars inside of clean Pampers, then pass them around the party and people have to guess what kind of candy bar it was by...
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    Funny/happy NICU moments needed

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

    What are angel frames? Sounds like a good idea... My coworker and I once came back from break to find her little patient, a 500-gram 24 weeker, SIDEWAYS on the bed. He rotated 45 degrees so that he...
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    Elective Primary C/S

    Gompers replied to Gem97's topic in Ob/Gyn

    You're telling me. I'm 34-35 weeks but I look full-term, easily. By 32 weeks my belly had outgrown half of my maternity clothes.
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    million dollar babies

    Gompers replied to RNin2007's topic in NICU, Neonatal

    I think all insurance companies have deductables so it shouldn't devastate them. However, sometimes they have to pay that doctor bill separate from the hospital bill, and that might add up. Parents...
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    Syringe Feeding Near Term Infants

    Gompers replied to PremieOne's topic in NICU, Neonatal

    They do that kind of stuff in our newborn nursery - syringe feedings, cup feedings, and that thing that looks like a rubbery spoon, I think it's called a soft feeder. We refuse to do any of that up...
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    Article on MSNBC about 22 weekers

    Gompers replied to preemieRNkate's topic in NICU, Neonatal

    That's actually a really good point. "Oh, the baby was premature" was used at times "way back when" if the mom was already pregnant when she got married. I'm sure there were a lot of 8 pound...
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    A Celebration for Gompers

    Gompers replied to Jolie's topic in NICU, Neonatal

    LOL! Baby lingo sure has changed, hasn't it? Boppy pillows are shaped like a "c" and can be worn around a mom's waist to help support the baby while feeding. When the baby gets a little bigger, it...
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    Elective Primary C/S

    Gompers replied to Gem97's topic in Ob/Gyn

    If I go full-term, it very well might be that big! :) The baby was about 5 lb, 12 oz at 33-1/2 weeks per ultrasound. Somewhere around the 60th percentile, but it has been as large as 80th...
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    A Celebration for Gompers

    Gompers replied to Jolie's topic in NICU, Neonatal

    nope, it's a surprise! i've had ultrasounds up the wahzoo - 5, 6-1/2, 8, 20, 25, 29, and 33 weeks - because it's high risk, and i could have found out at the last four scans. i'm trying to be...
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    A Celebration for Gompers

    Gompers replied to Jolie's topic in NICU, Neonatal

    thank you, everyone!!!! :) you are all too sweet to me! i really appreciate all the warm thoughts and advice. i can't believe it's almost here. i spent so much of the pregnancy being terrified...
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    Elective Primary C/S

    Gompers replied to Gem97's topic in Ob/Gyn

    I really can't explain my fear of epidurals. We all have irrational fears in life, and that just happens to be one of mine, pure and simple. I am also overweight and have scoliosis. When I bend...
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    NICU Sewing Patterns

    Gompers replied to Wren's topic in NICU, Neonatal

    I googled "isolette cover pattern" and got lots of hits just from that. Here's a standard cover for the good old fashioned isolettes - not Giraffes... Pattern for Custom Isolette Cover On the same...
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    Elective Primary C/S

    Gompers replied to Gem97's topic in Ob/Gyn

    I don't understand women who think that a c-section is going to be less painful than a lady partsl delivery. Don't they realize that having their abdomen cut open is going to hurt a lil' bit...
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    Pet Peeves

    Gompers replied to waterfall99's topic in Ob/Gyn

    Women who do drugs/smoke/drink through their pregnancies, don't get prenatal care, and then want us to "do everything" to save their 400 gram 23-weekers. Inevitably, these are the micropreemies that...
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    Article on MSNBC about 22 weekers

    Gompers replied to preemieRNkate's topic in NICU, Neonatal

    Do you mean that the doctors wouldn't save a baby because it's too much trouble? Because usually we see the opposite happening - doctors with God complexes that think they can save anything. They'll...
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    Article on MSNBC about 22 weekers

    Gompers replied to preemieRNkate's topic in NICU, Neonatal

    I also had to stop reading those posts. You guys are right, way too emotional and these people were not believing actual doctors that were posting. What they don't understand is that while they...
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    blood , plasma and platete transfusion

    Gompers replied to mawjood's topic in NICU, Neonatal

    That is why we dread giving platelets!!! The problem wasn't so much with them clotting the lines off, but the actual platelets themselves apparently can clot together and become useless. That's at...
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    blood , plasma and platete transfusion

    Gompers replied to mawjood's topic in NICU, Neonatal

    We also have to take about 2cc of blood to check coags, but everything else is in a capillary tube, tiny blood gas syringe, or microcontainer. For pre-op labs, 7cc is a ton of blood. The only time...
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    Visitation Question

    Gompers replied to BSNtobe2009's topic in NICU, Neonatal

    :rotfl: It's been going so fast. I can vividly remember when I started the counter - it was well over 100 days. Now it's under 50. Being a NICU nurse, I'm much much much more relaxed now that I'm...
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    blood , plasma and platete transfusion

    Gompers replied to mawjood's topic in NICU, Neonatal

    These questions really should be answered by your unit's doctors since they're the ones ordering it - plus each hospital has their own guidelines as to when and how much they transfuse. This is what...