umcRN replied to NYSNOWBUNNY007's topic in Pediatric
I don't think working in psych would hurt your chances in acute care at all. Psych patients get physically sick too, chronically sick kids get depression at all ages. You will be great for helping...
hmm i'm not sure what kind of EEG that is...we use regular video EEG's on my unit and the RN's really have nothing to do with it except assist the tech move the baby's head to put the leads on. Our...
In my peds cardiac icu if a line with pressors needs to be changed the whole line is swapped out at once by running the complete setup on another pole for up to a few hours and then switching over...
umcRN replied to Carmen Huston's topic in NICU, Neonatal
Definitely not on CPAP, feeding for those babies by OG only. Oral feeding doesnt start until on at least 4L Vapotherm. I have also fed a trached/vented baby whose work of breathing actually went down...
I can give a little bit of insight but not much. I worked in Children's NICU for two years and now work in the cardiac icu. I have only been cross trained and floated to the PICU. I can tell from...
I had two years experience in the NICU and currently work in a peds Cardiac ICU. If you want to be with the patient you want to be a nurse, IMHO As a nurse I could do any of the following or all in a...
I believe my facilities policy is hourly and whenever the rate is changed. So if the rate is changed 3 times in an hour it would be charted 3 times that hour, if the rate doesn't change for another 5...
Don't know of any good pocket books but check out survivalcards.com they sell small cards packed with info, mainly about meds but have some abg info, intubation info and vent info as well as general...
When I worked nicu I rotated to nights for about 4 weeks evry 6 to 8 months...no biggie, my new unit I must rotate every three weeks and it is a 12 hr schedule,
I can give you some info. I worked two yrs in a neonatal icu, level IIIc. We had nnp teams and fellow teams. All teams were led by an attending however when the attending went home nnps had pretty...
So I wanted to get opinions on something that happened while I was at work the other day. I am a former nicu nurse who about a month ago changed to peds cardiac icu. So far I love it, no complaints, I...
cooling kids also tend to have crazy electrolyte imbalances, and you don't want to over correct a sodium level too fast, in my unit the docs will usually write for new fluids but expect the sodium to...
don't really know of any policies. Have only seen this situation once and it was very recent, had a baby who was transferred to our unit for her prenatally dx cardiac defect and it turned out she also...
5fr here and I work in a nicu and peds cicu. In the nicu sometimes we would get umbilical lines for or micro preemies, but really, 5fr/6fr worked well on most everyone, and bigger babies (>5kg)...
Corn Oil?? I've never heard of that! Interesting. We use all kinds of stuff (stuff being different formulas) depending on the kid, typically for full term kids starting with enfamil. We do fortify...
haha well it's not SUPER huge volumes but say your goal is 20cc/hr, well some nurses don't want to change a syringe q3 hours I had a primary once who was older (as in a term baby then 4 mos) and her...
One instructor sticks out in my mind. It was my maternity instructor. I remember we had our mid-term review. My clinical group was at a very small hospital, as a group we observed only ONE birth the...
Hello again! I've got this posted in all the ICU forums...just wondering how many ICU's out there use inline suction and if you do, do you use polymixinB down the ETT when suctioning as a VAP...
from what i've been told the fats can separate and sit on the top and potentially never get to the kid. Sometimes you can see the layer of fat sitting on the top too. I do know that we sometimes send...
Hello again! I've got this posted in all the ICU forums...just wondering how many ICU's out there use inline suction and if you do, do you use polymixinB down the ETT when suctioning as a VAP...
Hello again! I've got this posted in all the ICU forums...just wondering how many ICU's out there use inline suction and if you do, do you use polymixinB down the ETT when suctioning as a VAP...
thank you for both your replies! I think I am going to some research searching and try to find some articles, I have contacted the NICU's lactation consultant to see if she has any goo finds and I may...