BittyBabyGrower

BittyBabyGrower MSN, RN

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  1. New nurse really struggling...

    BittyBabyGrower replied to KTLou06's topic in NICU, Neonatal

    Hang in there. You still have a month left and you will grow in that time. We give our new people the same assignments we would take, but our new people have a resource person and the charge nurse...

  2. Is this upsetting to anyone else?

    BittyBabyGrower replied to Gompers's topic in NICU, Neonatal

    San, we just went thru all that with our ethics and legal department. Yes, we have an obligation, at least in our state, to try to bring these kids back, esp. if the parents want it. There is not an...

  3. Working with shingles?

    BittyBabyGrower replied to matchstickxx's topic in General Nursing

    In our NICU, you have to be treated and cleared by employee health and your

  4. Is your facility like this?

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

    If they are going for magnet, they better not be doing any downsizing. The whole magnet journey is a PITA. All kinds of hype, this and that, making people happy, the hospital spending big, big bucks...

  5. new ER nurse needs advice on IV therapy

    BittyBabyGrower replied to Anagray's topic in NICU, Neonatal

    Also, if you can keep them quiet (ie binky and Tootsweet) it will help also. We rarely draw off our IV's unless it is a gusher, then we just drip into the tubes, we don't draw back, it will collapse...

  6. Is your facility like this?

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

    Yikes, that sounds over the top! We have many committees, but most of us are only on one or two. I head 2 committees and am the charge nurse...that is enough! I'd have to say to them, what else do...

  7. New Nurse 6 Months-float ?

    BittyBabyGrower replied to SALLYSMG's topic in General Nursing

    We float after 6 months, but we only float to maternal child. Mostly we go to the nursery and the peds floor, occas. to the PICU. We don't have an orientation to the other floors (basically they...

  8. Low Census....again!

    BittyBabyGrower replied to SouthernBelleinsocal's topic in General Nursing

    We cancel OT,then ET. We keep a log of dates people were cancelled. We call that list first starting with the person cancelled the longest ago all the way up the list. If no one wants to be...

  9. Checking pulses with a lower leg cast???

    BittyBabyGrower replied to NurseScholar's topic in Nursing Student Assistance

    As a person who had a long leg cast on after an open tib/fib fracture above the malleous, and lost the pulse in my foot, thank goodness for the nurse that did her

  10. Definition of Level II Nursery?

    BittyBabyGrower replied to PedsNurse1981's topic in NICU, Neonatal

    Level III Admission Criteria Neonatal Intermediate Level of Care Stage 3: Non-invasive CPM Continuous Positive Airway Pressure (CPAP) and/or Oxygen Nasal Cannula NPO/Intravenous fluid and/or...

  11. Did you see this on the Today Show?

    BittyBabyGrower replied to dawngloves's topic in NICU, Neonatal

    Okay, I think that is what Dawn meant. I love it....DIY

  12. "Nurse" on Ellen Gegneres today?!!

    BittyBabyGrower replied to tridil2000's topic in General Nursing

    I saw that and was not offended at all...personally I think that is how it should be....me doing a crossword puzzle and the doc doing all the talking LOL I love Ellen's show! I really take more...

  13. shift ends at 7, but you leave at 9? Why?

    BittyBabyGrower replied to RNDreamer's topic in General Nursing

    Most of the people I work with that are always late have terrible time management skills. Occas we get hung up on a really sick kiddo and have to play catch up after we do report, or while we are...

  14. Level II Nursery vs Level II Nicu

    BittyBabyGrower replied to madascanbeRNtobe's topic in General Nursing

    Jolie is right, a level 2 is a level 2. Also, there really isn't a level 4, but some places call themselves this when they have

  15. Did you see this on the Today Show?

    BittyBabyGrower replied to dawngloves's topic in NICU, Neonatal

    KellNY....many clients to what you say, but the thing is that it sounds like this lady in the article is a bit self centered....I'm sorry, but 28 week kiddos, and 6 of them at that, are in for a long...

  16. Need nurses opinions. Is this right?? Nursing Dx

    BittyBabyGrower replied to Epona's topic in General Nursing

    I really don't know why they don't allow you to use medical diagnosis...we just changed all our care plans in our hospital to allow for this. Such as: Impaired air exchange r/t RDS, pneumonia, etc....

  17. Aquaphor burning skin??

    BittyBabyGrower replied to BeckyNICURN's topic in NICU, Neonatal

    We use the humidy not only for skin things, but for temp control, which correlates in with water loss. It is interesting how things are done so different in other areas of the country, and really,...

  18. Specialized micro-preemie team in your unit?

    BittyBabyGrower replied to justjenny's topic in NICU, Neonatal

    We have a small baby protocol and some of the things are head midline, HOB up 45 degrees, no direct heat to head (ie heat packs), gel pad/donut under baby upon admission (also helps with the temp...

  19. Being called "Nurse".

    BittyBabyGrower replied to PsychRN-Kris's topic in General Nursing

    There are worse things to be called, that is for sure

  20. Aquaphor burning skin??

    BittyBabyGrower replied to BeckyNICURN's topic in NICU, Neonatal

    Your temps are accurate with the behind the ear thing? I've never heard of that! Hmmmm, food for

  21. dosage calculation quizzes after nursing school

    BittyBabyGrower replied to The Bell Jar's topic in General Nursing

    They have to pass the adult one and if they are peds they have to pass both the adult and the peds. If they don't pass, they aren't going any further in orientation. We take one annually on drip...

  22. Visiting hours, whose job to enforce them???

    BittyBabyGrower replied to pink2blue1's topic in General Nursing

    You just need to tell them the visiting hours and that's the end of it. Where I work, people can go to the floors, but if it isn't visiting hours, then they are turned away. We also have booklets we...

  23. Just my hospital??

    BittyBabyGrower replied to shortstuff31117's topic in General Nursing

    no more range orders here...gotta love

  24. Living in Cleveland area

    BittyBabyGrower replied to chris_NC0112's topic in Ohio Nursing

    I would consider living in one of the suburbs of Cleveland. I'd never live over there by CCF! Lakewood, Westlake, North Olmsted are good places to

  25. Metrohealth Medical Center

    BittyBabyGrower replied to jaylynn67's topic in Ohio Nursing

    It isn't a bad place to work. They may not get paid as much as the rest of the county, due to being county run, but they have a great retirement, good benefits and they don't have a high turnover....