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    Sometimes it hits you...

    umcRN replied to umcRN's topic in PICU, Pediatric

    What would you like to know? We have a training program for RN's who are interested, I am not part of putting that on so I'm not sure where they get the videos/handouts. We got funding for this...
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    Peds: How do you handle it?

    umcRN replied to mmcc26's topic in Pediatric

    Came across this today. An example of why kids (and those who take care of them) are
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    A new book, "The American Nurse"

    umcRN replied to herring_RN's topic in Nurses Rock

    We got this book for nurses week at our hospital (probably because a few of our nurses were featured in it) but it's pretty
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    ECMO

    umcRN replied to littlepeopleRNICU's topic in NICU, Neonatal

    Well so long as you have a good orientation it should be ok. In my unit all staff is also trained to do ecmo bedside, certain rn's in the nicu/pcicu are ecmo specialists and sit pump and then our core...
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    Small children visiting patients in the critical care setting... thoughts??

    umcRN replied to TigerGalLE's topic in Critical Care

    I haven't read this entire post so excuse me if I'm repeating something. I work peds so sometimes it can be a little different, sometimes kids NEED to see their siblings to feel better, both the ones...
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    Peds: How do you handle it?

    umcRN replied to mmcc26's topic in Pediatric

    I work in a pediatric cardiac icu. As one of our more senior charge nurses put it recently, every one of our kids is already dying when they come in the door (that's more specific to my unit of...
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    The LEAST critically ill kid you've cared for in PICU :)

    umcRN replied to meanmaryjean's topic in PICU, Pediatric

    There's always that one event that ruins it for the rest of them. Never mind improving education for the floors and working to make the hospital stay better for the patient, nope just tie them to an...
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    ECMO

    umcRN replied to littlepeopleRNICU's topic in NICU, Neonatal

    Our ECMO core team and perfusionists are the only ones that prime and set up the pump. The core team is made up of nurses and respiratory therapists who ONLY do ecmo, our bedside specialists (who also...
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    How do I get involved in Neonatal Research or Conferences

    umcRN replied to salaw's topic in NICU, Neonatal

    Children's national medical center does both research in the nicu as well as fetal/neonatal research in the cardiac icu although I don't know how much nursing directed research is done in the nicu,...
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    Case Study: Cyanosis

    umcRN replied to blondy2061h's topic in Critical Care

    EKG, chest xray, echo - she could have myocarditis r/t the recent teeth removal, chronic illness and likely weak immune system. Admit to ICU for sure. She could also have a late onset chemo induced...
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    How do I get involved in Neonatal Research or Conferences

    umcRN replied to salaw's topic in NICU, Neonatal

    That's true, you probably will need an
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    new grad PICU job prospects - community hospital vs. children's hospital?

    umcRN replied to benedetta's topic in PICU, Pediatric

    I agree. Hospital B will give you a good solid ground to build up from. Work there and you could potentially go anywhere you wanted to go, back to school, research, life flight, and will also give you...
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    How do I get involved in Neonatal Research or Conferences

    umcRN replied to salaw's topic in NICU, Neonatal

    Also as far as conferences go you can become a member of NANN NANN Index and maybe find contacts through them for
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    PICU Question!

    umcRN replied to PICUisforcoolRNs's topic in PICU, Pediatric

    Nope not here either. If I have a kid on high pressors on line change day I will hunt down a transport pole and enough pumps for a completely identical set-up to what they have running and get...
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    How do I get involved in Neonatal Research or Conferences

    umcRN replied to salaw's topic in NICU, Neonatal

    Do you work in a teaching hospital? That's where the research is going to be happening. I know quite a few nurses at my hospital that went from bedside to
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    The Malignant Hero

    umcRN replied to RN2DNP4.5's topic in General Nursing

    WHY was there a muscle relaxant in a
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    The LEAST critically ill kid you've cared for in PICU :)

    umcRN replied to meanmaryjean's topic in PICU, Pediatric

    Same here about the vents! (clearly if the floor won't do home bipap, they won't do vents) Except i'm in cardiac ICU but if an old MRCP PH-er comes in for hip surgery it's us that's got him! And all...
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    The LEAST critically ill kid you've cared for in PICU :)

    umcRN replied to meanmaryjean's topic in PICU, Pediatric

    And yet if they have obstructive sleep apnea from all these chicken fingers and need bipap at night...they will be found in my icu, because the floor can't do
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    Sometimes it hits you...

    umcRN replied to umcRN's topic in PICU, Pediatric

    Just thought I'd share, this little one went home a few weeks ago! Four months inpatient, 2 open heart surgeries, cardiac arrest x2 & an ecmo run, she is now home, with a normal MRI to
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    Parent CPR Teaching

    umcRN replied to umcRN's topic in PICU, Pediatric

    Hmm interesting, so it doesn't seem like bedside nurses do it very commonly, good to know,
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    Parent CPR Teaching

    umcRN posted a topic in PICU, Pediatric

    This question came up recently in my unit. If you are discharging a complex kiddo from ICU to home (trach/vent dependent for instance) who teaches the parents CPR? In the NICU I worked in (same...
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    More $$/hr for CCRN?

    umcRN replied to cabgnurse's topic in CCU, Coronary, Cardiac

    we get a (taxed) bonus and the test paid for if you
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    And the award for most asked question goes to...

    umcRN replied to Bortaz's topic in NICU, Neonatal

    "When can he take a bottle?" Never mind that the kiddo is an ex 24 weeker, has been intubated 6 months, just arrived to our facility a few days prior and we decide to try vapotherm since the other...
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    And then the MD said.....

    umcRN replied to NurseOnAMotorcycle's topic in Patient, Colleague Relations

    Having worked with babies in critical care for four years I beg to differ. If the parents are around sure we encourage them to change the diapers and for some of the sicker infants it might be the...
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    Calculator at work?

    umcRN replied to 1Luv_xo's topic in General Nursing

    But there is that 1% of times when they send up something wrong and I've seen it too many times for comfort. A bag of what should have been 800mcg/1ml of dopamine instead sent up 3200/1 but with the...