BittyBabyGrower

BittyBabyGrower MSN, RN

NICU, PICU, educator

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  1. Gompers...

    BittyBabyGrower posted a topic in NICU, Neonatal

    I haven't been on in a while...are you getting excited? I hope they are pampering you at

  2. NICU for new grad?

    BittyBabyGrower replied to holly150's topic in NICU, Neonatal

    I would ask if you could go and shadow a nurse for 4 hours and see what you think. Personally, medsurg doesn't really help you with a whole lot in NICU as it is a whole different world, not even...

  3. Quiet time (again!)

    BittyBabyGrower replied to danissa's topic in NICU, Neonatal

    Good for you! We only have no visitors for report. We follow the other visiting hours for other visitor :) I hope this works out for

  4. Grrrr-Evaluation feedback

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

    I am thinking that someone said something to her about people getting there early and always choosing their assignments. We had a group of people that would pawn off admits and then we said, no one...

  5. Grrrr-Evaluation feedback

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

    Jolie, you're right. We do go to people before their eval, esp if other people have said something to us. But we don't have this type of problem, because like I said, we don't allow people to pick...

  6. Grrrr-Evaluation feedback

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

    As one who does evals, sometimes when we see that a person keeps taking either one to ones or only certain kinds of kids, it sends up a red flag as to WHY aren't they taking other assignments....

  7. Gompers...

    BittyBabyGrower replied to BittyBabyGrower's topic in NICU, Neonatal

    Good luck Gomps....today is the big Baby

  8. Will somebody PLEASE tell these doctors....

    BittyBabyGrower replied to UM Review RN's topic in General Nursing

    Do NOT walk off with my flowsheets and then forget where you put them...write down what you need to know and leave my STUFF alone! LOL Don't tell me that the nurses just don't want to feed this kid...

  9. I'm Being Disciplined for Looking Up My Own Labs

    BittyBabyGrower replied to daisybaby's topic in General Nursing

    As stupid as it is, where I work, they will and can actually fire you for this offense. I have no idea how MY labs can be a violation of HIPPA, we have a center wide rule that you are not to access...

  10. Speaking of changing lines....

    BittyBabyGrower posted a topic in NICU, Neonatal

    When you hang a piggyback med on a syringe pump, do you change the tubing every time or do you put a flush on and leave the flush on and only change the syringe out? I have been doing some research...

  11. Bacteria Outbreak Closes Hospital Units

    BittyBabyGrower replied to huladancer's topic in NICU, Neonatal

    I believe that one of the units in the past, it was tied to the vents. We all have gloves on, even when we handle the blades and handles. But, the articles points out that even a few kids in the...

  12. Speaking of changing lines....

    BittyBabyGrower replied to BittyBabyGrower's topic in NICU, Neonatal

    But it kind of like changing the TPN bag and not the tubing, KWIM? We did observations in our unit and noted that many people would forget to wipe the line or not wait for whatever they wiped on...

  13. PDA treatment Ibuprofen versus Indocin

    BittyBabyGrower replied to PremieOne's topic in NICU, Neonatal

    One would think Jolie, but there is one company that has the patent on the ibuprofen I believe, which used to be cheap, and they marked it up to about $800 per dose, whereas Indocin is much, much...

  14. Ampicillin/Cefotaxime in Febrile Neonate

    BittyBabyGrower replied to luckylucyrn's topic in NICU, Neonatal

    Our pharmacy makes our med books up. They use several sources to come up with our guidelines, including neofax and the pediatric drug

  15. Speaking of changing lines....

    BittyBabyGrower replied to BittyBabyGrower's topic in NICU, Neonatal

    You're not fuzzy :roll Yes...that is what I'm saying. You would reuse the same tubing for multiple meds as you have run flush thru it and it is cleaned out. We use stopcocks on lines when we have...

  16. PDA treatment Ibuprofen versus Indocin

    BittyBabyGrower replied to PremieOne's topic in NICU, Neonatal

    I wish we would change over to ibuprofen....I hate indocin! We do our ligations on the floor...we cleaned out one of our store rooms and now we use that. We used to do them in the room but our room...

  17. 30 Day notice for resignation??

    BittyBabyGrower replied to ctyler98's topic in General Nursing

    Ours is equivalent to how many weeks vacation we get. So most are 3-5 weeks

  18. Do you change your TPN tubing Q24 or Q72??

    BittyBabyGrower replied to MA Nurse's topic in NICU, Neonatal

    We are changing over to totally aseptic techinque now...all central lines have to be changed with sterile attire. We weren't doing it and our sepsis rate has been high. We will use the two person...

  19. Gompers...

    BittyBabyGrower replied to BittyBabyGrower's topic in NICU, Neonatal

    Oh man, I remember having carpal tunnel terribly when I was pregnant...there were nights that I had to sit up in the recliner with my arms straight out to sleep! Wednesday...oh girl, that isn't too...

  20. Do you change your TPN tubing Q24 or Q72??

    BittyBabyGrower replied to MA Nurse's topic in NICU, Neonatal

    We don't mix lipids with TPN...too many meds that aren't compatible per our pharmacy. This is a hot spot in our unit right now. We change out everything every 24 hours right now because we piggyback...

  21. Really want to do NICU...

    BittyBabyGrower replied to live4rachael's topic in NICU, Neonatal

    We would never recommend doing an NRP class...that is something we do for our new people at the end of their orientation. I think that it would be hard to do an NRP course with no basic skills. We...

  22. new policies

    BittyBabyGrower replied to pooperscooperrn0624's topic in NICU, Neonatal

    Canisters get changed weekly (if we remember), tubing daily if used. HIV...no difference, if the mom was treated antenatally, then we cont, if not the fellow talks to mom and then we start it. If...

  23. Ampicillin/Cefotaxime in Febrile Neonate

    BittyBabyGrower replied to luckylucyrn's topic in NICU, Neonatal

    Our pharmacy makes them and we give both slow

  24. NCPAP with a rate

    BittyBabyGrower replied to Love_2_Learn's topic in NICU, Neonatal

    We also have Dragers.....they are the best ones in terms of being a bit more quiet, but they alarm enough if the prongs are in LOL. PremieOne...I have heard Dr. Wang speak...he is awesome! Our docs...

  25. This is from JCHO....

    BittyBabyGrower replied to Zippedodah's topic in NICU, Neonatal

    Yikes.....actually, I can see them asking this and then next year implementing it. They are very big on infection control in maternal child. I don't think that this person is necessarily saying that...