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    Questions about Children's National Medical Center

    umcRN replied to PediLove2147's topic in General Nursing

    Congrats! Good
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    anyone familiar with the zaky?

    umcRN replied to Sugarcoma's topic in NICU, Neonatal

    yes! we have quite a few zflos that do not hold their shape anymore, we still use them though, of course we aren't using them for positioning and I think if I ever "strapped" a baby into one I would...
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    anyone familiar with the zaky?

    umcRN replied to Sugarcoma's topic in NICU, Neonatal

    I also just looked up the zflow positioners..mainly because I had never heard of them being used for positioning, we use them in our unit strictly for wound prevention and their maintained by our...
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    Questions about Children's National Medical Center

    umcRN replied to PediLove2147's topic in General Nursing

    I would call again Monday if you don't get a call, I got the same email the same day I talked with the manager of the unit I work in now, they might automatically send it to everyone, even the people...
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    Questions about Children's National Medical Center

    umcRN replied to PediLove2147's topic in General Nursing

    gotcha...I thought you said you would wait to apply for a job until you got an interview, I understand now. I do work there and I know the summer new grad program on my unit is starting the end of...
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    Questions about Children's National Medical Center

    umcRN replied to PediLove2147's topic in General Nursing

    There are new grad programs that start this summer (July) the positions are filled anywhere from November until May prior to the program starting, depending on what unit you are interested in. You...
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    What is the lowest HGB you have seen?

    umcRN replied to I<3H2O's topic in General Nursing

    I believe they found that he already had an underlying heme disorder (he had his newborn metabolic screen done 4 times because there was something "wrong" with the samples - should have been the first...
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    What is the lowest HGB you have seen?

    umcRN replied to I<3H2O's topic in General Nursing

    1 - in a two month old! Like nothing i've ever seen before, docs did an art stick on him and his blood came out like kool aid. Lab was calling us saying there was something wrong with the sample but...
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    Weaning to open crib

    umcRN replied to CareForBabies's topic in NICU, Neonatal

    1.6kg. Monitor isolette trends, if baby has been using less than 30degrees to maintain temp then we dress/swaddle them and continue to monitor x24 hours on baby mode. If less than 30degrees continues...
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    NICU nurses working on Peds

    umcRN replied to schoolnurseadmin's topic in NICU, Neonatal

    hmm hard to say. At my hospital NICU/PICU/PCVICU all float together, right now we are all hopping and nurses are floated between the three units all the time, if there is a bonus out for overtime it...
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    Webcam use in NICU/SCBU

    umcRN replied to swazi-maci's topic in NICU, Neonatal

    I forget where...but I have heard of this being trialled in some PICU's as well, not sure I'd be too thrilled with
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    The CRAZIEST "Baseline" You've Ever Heard

    umcRN replied to MoLee228's topic in General Nursing

    unless you've got a hypoplastic left heart kiddo...or one of the many other cyanotic congenital heart defects...just
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    G-tube leaking :(

    umcRN posted a topic in General Nursing

    So I am taking care of an approx 6kg baby girl who it fed via gtube and hers leaks something awful! Due to her resp issues she is positoned prone or on her side 90% of the time, she cannot tolerate...
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    G-tube leaking :(

    umcRN replied to umcRN's topic in General Nursing

    She passed away this past Thursday morning, I was lucky to be her nurse that day to help her parents through it. She won't need her g-tube anymore in heaven :heartbeat. Very sad, very quick, she went...
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    Primaries, too close, and when/how to get out

    umcRN replied to umcRN's topic in NICU, Neonatal

    Thanks, glad I'm not the only one who worried about my baby on my days off. I am definitely planning a long break from having primaries. It was just such a shock to everyone, two weeks ago she was...
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    Primaries, too close, and when/how to get out

    umcRN posted a topic in NICU, Neonatal

    This is Long! Sorry! Ugh, so I am trying to figure out what to do in this situation. I have a primary, I've had her for about 4 weeks now. I have only had one other long term primary (he was and is...
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    Primaries, too close, and when/how to get out

    umcRN replied to umcRN's topic in NICU, Neonatal

    My sweet baby got her wings today Thanks for all of the advice, but I am glad I was her nurse the last three
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    G-tube leaking :(

    umcRN replied to umcRN's topic in General Nursing

    Hmm not as big/much as I thought! We have 58 private rooms, do body cooling, cvvh, pd and ecmo, but all the cardiac kids go to cicu (which is a bummer for me cuz I'm interested in cardiacs) and...
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    Primaries, too close, and when/how to get out

    umcRN replied to umcRN's topic in NICU, Neonatal

    Thanks for the great and understanding replies. I do feel I'm too emotionally wrapped up in the situation, and like today, when the parents come back from taking a few hours off because I'm here and...
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    G-tube leaking :(

    umcRN replied to umcRN's topic in General Nursing

    and not to change the subject slightly (although it's pretty much changed now!) Are you at Boston Children's? I'm actually from Boston and moved because I was a new grad and wasn't getting much in...
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    G-tube leaking :(

    umcRN replied to umcRN's topic in General Nursing

    tell me about it, it's been a bad day, had to tell her parents that at this point she likely won't make it to her cath, hell i couldn't turn her over without just about coding her, the vent settings...
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    G-tube leaking :(

    umcRN replied to umcRN's topic in General Nursing

    I am in a major childrens hospital, they do great with their cicu kiddos but for some reason the nicu ones tend to
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    G-tube leaking :(

    umcRN replied to umcRN's topic in General Nursing

    laryngeal malacia, a genetic syndrome (w/o getting too specific), VERY short neck and some other anomalies (as well as previous traumatic intubation's at another facility), it was a planned...
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    G-tube leaking :(

    umcRN replied to umcRN's topic in General Nursing

    wow! that is quite the getup! I don't think hers is quite that bad though I am interested in how much she is losing. Unfortunately she isn't leaking anything right now because she's been made NPO d/t...
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    G-tube leaking :(

    umcRN replied to umcRN's topic in General Nursing

    we are in the nicu, surgery has been consulted a few times and never mentioned a different button, I wonder if our hospital offers them, I have seen the "mini one" which looks a lot flatter and like...