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i am so glad to see men in our nicu! we have some awsome male rns. we need more men in our nicu. i think is good for our teen & young parents to see a working male. many of our teen & 20 something moms don't know any males with legal jobs. most of the male rn's in our unit are married with families. the young "fobs" need to see a man working a ligitmate job, taking care of his family and enjoying his work. why is it women will go to a man (who is not their husband or boyfriend) for a gyn exam, but think it is weird for a man to be a nicu rn?

This is why I don't have colleagues to my home because you never know what people are going to say once they get back to work. Women have a way of judging each other based on cleaning. I once took care of a 400 gram 23 weeker that circled the drain for my entire 12 hour shift. When my relief came on all she could do was complain about how untidy the area was! Excuse ME I was busy coding an embryo for the last 12 hours. Some times you just have to prioritize.

I wipe my area down at the end of my shift and if somthing gets spilled. What bugs me is when I am trying to give report to oncomming nurse she is wiping down the counter like I have just sprayed it with an even layer of ecoli. I clean my kids isolette each night. We try to change our isolettes q-week but it does not always happen The house keeping people, when they do show up create more problems because they "clean" with the same dirty cloths on every surface. If you try to so something to them they fly off the handle. I just go behind any thing they touch with bleech cloths.

so are we. and belive me these are some really addicted babies with super manipulative mothers! some of these babies need to be a 1:1 assignment because they need to be held so much.

hi everyone. i would like to know your opinion on "magnet" what has it really done? how has it changed your practice? do you really think that the general public looks for a magnet hospital when choosing health care? i feel it is very expensive to maintain and our public hospital should put those funds to better use. what do you think of them pushing the bsn ,esp in this ecomony? just asking

NRP address this and does and excellent job of doing so! Yet some seem to just ignor this section. I really feel alot of the time it is in fear of lawsuits. I do not feel to decision to resusitate a 22/23 weeker should be in the hand of the parents, esp since they have no point of ref, except they want their baby to live. Nobody wants to belive they are miscarring their baby

well, being that is it summer & time for new residents & fellows; we try to keep the new docs from killing the babies ! does anyone else have this problem? not only are we caring for critically ill neonates but we are baby sitting arrogant docs who know nothing yet feel they know everything and write orders that don't make any sense. my solution to this, call the attending @ home in the middle of the night. then somehow, he suddenly remembers it is his job to teach the fellows & residents!

I agree with BittyBabyGrower! The things these poor babies go through sometimes is FAR worst than death.

I agree!

dear bittybabygrower, i agree with you so much! i keep seeing this same situation over & over. it is just so sick to touture these kids! and if i hear one more parent say "he is such a fighter" i am going to scream, he has no choice or voice to say "stop the touture! "also, getting the ethics committe involved is a joke because they are afraid of the docs.

omg!!! some days the parents are more of a challenge than the sickest baby! i would rather take care of a 400gram infant with 20 gtts, hfv, blood products and q1h gases who's parent don't or can't visit, than a kid who parents are there to watch him grow cell by cell, and will not give you one second to even look at another infant. what i have come to realize people are not getting any smater, they lack comom sense and comon curtesy. most of the parents can not process that the baby in the next isolette is coding & dying while the are asking you for a blanket or to wipe a guber from the baby's nose. i like the off shifts, to avoid visitors. best of luck in level 2!

for the sake of your infant patients, just do it!!!!

last night in our level 3 unit, out team with over to l&d for a code. it was for a 22 and 3/7 weeker! they coded that poor kid for 50 mins:mad:. has anyone ever heard of this? has any one taken care of an infant under 23 weeks and it lived even an few days. after 26 years somedays i just wounder what is next. how low can we go?!

narc & park!!! sedate & vecc leads to quick sussceful extubation!

I had been primary to a former 24 weeker who was now 9 months old and still in our unit. Despite everything he had been through he had a very sweet disposition. He loved to be held and rocked, esp during nippling. OT had beed teaching him basic sign lanuage. I would head straight for his crib as soon as I started my shift just to say hi. One day when I got to his crib he signed "Mama" and threw his arms up to be picked up. It was such a happy:heartbeat and sad:cry: moment combined. His Mom had visited 5 times in 9 months, it never crossed my mind that he would think I was his mother and it never crossed OT mind to teach him the sign for nurse. Sadly, he was not the only one in the unit who's mom did not vist, but some how he felt loved. That is what we try to do for our babes who don't get visits from parents. I still really don't know how former 24 weeker grasp such an abstract concept as mother. He went to a great foster family with a mom & dad, no other kids in the home, so he did not have to be 1 of 50 babies waiting his turn for a cuddle. I hear he is still signing, and Mama to his foster mom:yeah:

i have worked 3pm-3am for the last 5 years and i don't rotate. i think in our unit "day shift" {any shift starting @ 7am} still has to rotate. i think rotaing is bad for you health.

wow! what did the hospital lawyer have to say about this? what did the parents say.? i feel really bad for the nurse this happened to.

how true, how true!!!!!

i agree with you 100%!!!!

No work does not pay us for going to furnerals and I would not want the to. If they did then it would be a job requirement and I have enought of those.

How many of you NICU or PICU nurse go to the funeral of a baby or child you have taken care of. I have gone to many over the years but I only went to one this year. I have been thinking of this alot this year for various reasons. In our unit we have had, what seemed like to me qiute a few deaths this year. Some of the babies I have took care of quite a bit. I knew death was coming so I said my good bye in the hospital. Most of the services I did not attend because the parents we very upset with the unit and I felt that my presence would be a reminder of the events that had taken place, so I just sent a card. In the past there have been parents that called the unit and ask me to come to the services and I have gone. I don't have a problem going to funerals, and have gone to many in my life time. I was jut wondering what other nurses in other NICU & PICU do.

i know this is bad, but i don't just ask what the baby's first name is anymore. i just get so depressed with all these really stupid names, i just don't want to know what the name is. but, alast, the parent feels the need to tell me, soooooo, i have to smile and "oh, okay, how do you you want to spell that?" i know i have been a nicu nurse too long because even the grandparents have stupid made up names now. once i had a primary baby for 4 months whose mother( and i say that loosely) had been whisked off to prison for murder before she named him. it was nice because i gave him a nice respectable name while he was in my care, so the county worker and foster mom just kept it.:1luvu:

ocds nicu nurses with too many "pet peeves"!!! because i realize i don't work in a one nurse unit, i know diffrent people have diffrent ways of doing things. i also know that anyone who went to nursing school more that 15 years ago was taught to be very task oriented, even thought we all know better now some of it has stuck. have you ever gone to a nursing home and seen old nurses in their wc washing their hands over and over again or trying to take their surounding peers vs and a real tale-tell sign is constantly folding invisble linnen? let it go folks or it could be you!!

Why would the perfect Son of God need to be admitted to the NICU?!!!!!!

our hospital does not float on holidays unless you just don't want to get canceled. i don't know who would not want to get canceled. one year i got canceled for the last 4 hours and took vacation pay.