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Thanks guys for all your help. I am definately going to do more research with it, but just wanted to see what others experiences were before doing so.

We culture all of our babies for MRSA on the 15th of each month and also on admission with a transport. We find more cases of VRE from transports than MRSA. Once positive, they get put on isolation until they have 3 neg cultures.

I have been a RN for 4 years and am extremely interested in travel nursing. I was wondering how easy it was to get a 2br apartment/condo with no extra cost. I have a friend that is thinking about traveling with me that is not a nurse. What are your experiences with 2br housing? If you have gotten a 2br for a little bit extra, how much more did you have to spend out of pocket? I know that it is different per city/company/circumstance...Just trying to weigh out my options before traveling!! Thanks!! :) :)

calm, cool, carribean blue.........my favorite

I have heard that on some units the charge nurse doesnt have their own assignment. in our unit we do, and i remember the many of times that i have been charge and thought that it would be nice not to have my own patient load also.

All our fluids get changed every 24 hrs, except for art lines, mso4 gtt's, dopa gtts etc which get changed every 72 hrs

Congrats on graduation and for all that hard work... good luck with boards. Believe me, it will take a while to get used to not doing care plans or reading 200 pages a night! But doesn't it feel good to be done?

summer teeth... some are teeth and some are not

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thanks for your great explanation. I understood alot about bilirubin and just got back from a conference in which this was one of the topics, and you did a much better job explaining it than they did!!

I believe that it takes a certain kind of nurse to work in the NICU. If you believe its for you, then go for it. I knew in high school that i wanted to work in the NICU, thanks to my mom. I followed her footsteps

Welcome and nice to meet you. Good luck on fulfilling your dream!

We have a baby in the unit right now that had a cyst. The surgeon actually ruptured it during PDA surgery! This did not help for long. After multiple pneumo's and chest tubes (1-2 every 4 hrs), they decided to remove part of the lung including the cyst. After 3 days we were able to wean from the vent to cpap. she is still on cpap, but she is now only 900gms.

Just keep on practicing and dont get discouaged. Even the best at iv sticks have to start somewhere. It took me a long time to feel comfortable with starting IV's. Just keep trying and hang in there.

I have been working nights for 2 years now and i love it. it gets some getting used to but once you are, its amazing how you can keep going strong with not much sleep. good luck working night shift