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  1. PIPP Pain Assessment & Gestational Age

    NICU_RNwantsFL replied to Tiki_Torch's topic in NICU, Neonatal

    Hi all - Our PIPPS are scored like most of you indicate - for ex., an infant who was born at 28 wks. gestation but is now 4 weeks old would be considered a 32-weeker for PIPP purposes. Our unit...

  2. Nurse/Patient ratios

    NICU_RNwantsFL replied to TeenyBabyRN's topic in NICU, Neonatal

    Try FIVE "feeders and growers" (with most in their own separate rooms) - and then if you are still bored, let's make some of them ISOLATION! And, lest ye forget, if you don't document it, you didn't...

  3. How long did you wait to take NCLEX?

    NICU_RNwantsFL replied to joyNICU's topic in NICU, Neonatal

    I didn't even know you COULD start work before NCCLEX! I graduated mid-March 2001, and took NCCLEX on May 1 of that year. Being rather anal-retentive, I wanted to make sure I had all my ducks in a...

  4. Anyone know of website with nicu-appropriate printed scrub tops?

    NICU_RNwantsFL replied to blondielaine7rn's topic in NICU, Neonatal

    We wear our own scrubs in the NICU. Our hospital recently had a complete overhaul of the dress code (something about how the patients couldn't tell who their nurses were - duh? ) - Anyway, to my...

  5. IV site checks

    NICU_RNwantsFL replied to cindylouwho's topic in NICU, Neonatal

    I too have seen some nasty infiltrations become visible in On our daily flow sheet, there is a column to document the pump readings each hour. The next column has a place to put a check mark if site...

  6. Florida Nurses Salary

    NICU_RNwantsFL replied to Bclynn3's topic in Florida Nursing

    Hi y'all - I am a SC NICU RN looking to move to north-central Florida, and am also interested in wages. Right now, I make $20.56/hr, plus $3.30/hr night shift differential, plus $8/hr weekend...

  7. College question..LPN or RN??

    NICU_RNwantsFL replied to Marlajax's topic in Florida Nursing

    Hi - Your choice will probably depend heavily on your current financial situation. I am not wealthy by any means, but I opted to go straight thru nursing school to RN - reasoning that I could devote...

  8. Discarded babies

    NICU_RNwantsFL replied to Browneyedgirl's topic in General Nursing

    In the NICU, it seems like the most callous and irresponsible "parents" (using that term VERY loosely) are walking baby factories - while, as you all have pointed out, many hard-working, kind and...

  9. Left-handed nurses

    NICU_RNwantsFL replied to Wuiteroz's topic in General Nursing

    Howdy fellow Leftie! I am RN in NICU (as my screenname indicates, duh) and have had no more problems in hospital setting than in "real" life - For invasive procedures like IV sticks and urinary caths,...

  10. Stress & Nursing School

    NICU_RNwantsFL replied to RN-BamaStudent's topic in General Nursing

    Hi Bama, Been out of nursing school 2-1/2 years, and, sorry to say, confidence and esteem are still pretty shaky. It's true what they say about nurses "eating their young";while many nurses are very...