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  1. Dream NICU

    NeuroNP posted a topic in NICU, Neonatal

    OK, so this is my ideal, dream NICU, let's see if it exists anywhere (or at least how close we can get). My wife and I have to live here for three more years while I finish school and pay back my...

  2. RhoGAM and Coombs

    NeuroNP posted a topic in Ob/Gyn

    I'm a nursing student and we just took our OB final this morning. There was a question on the test that I'm confused by and I was hoping someone might be able to explain. Let me preface by saying...

  3. UMD vs. Johns Hopkins

    NeuroNP posted a topic in Maryland Nursing

    Can anyone offer advice between working for UMD vs Johns Hopkins? I will be a new grad with an ADN and I'd like to work in ICU and hopefully go to CRNA school one day. I'm not from MD but I think...

  4. FNP needing a change

    NeuroNP replied to shannons1's topic in PICU, Pediatric

    I didn't realize there was a specific critical care peds track. Our local PICU uses a general PNP (that's all our local school offers) but I've been told that a lot of places are now requiring you to...

  5. KCTCS Bluegrass?

    NeuroNP posted a topic in General Nursing

    Any students at KCTCS Bluegrass (Lexington) campus? I'm getting ready to start the ADN program in 2 weeks and I'm looking for folks who are either in the program now or recent grads who can give me...

  6. BCTC Pharm Exam

    NeuroNP posted a topic in General Nursing

    I'm a 2nd year at BCTC and I keep hearing rumors about this major pharmacology exam in the last semester of school. Are there any recent grads around who can offer some insight? They gave us a long...

  7. BCTC Pharm Exam

    NeuroNP replied to NeuroNP's topic in General Nursing

    thanks, that's good to hear. One of the professors told me there shouldn't be any dosage questions, but that in her opinion, it was a test that should be given to a nurse who'd been in practice for a...

  8. Medical Escort

    NeuroNP posted a topic in Flight, Surface Transport

    Does anyone out there do medical escort services for travellers? I've heard that there are opportunities for RNs to fly to foregin countries on commercial flights to retrieve travellers who are ill...

  9. What is the "case management model of care ?"

    NeuroNP posted a topic in Nurse Practitioners, NP

    I was looking at a website and reading job descriptions for the NP and it had this listed: "practice in the case management model of care." Any idea what that means? I assume that it is collabrative...

  10. Combined NNP/PNP programs

    NeuroNP posted a topic in Nurse Practitioners, NP

    Are there any programs that offer (formally or informally) an NNP and PNP? I'm interested in both PICU and NICU, but the job market for NNPs seems to be much better than PNPs in the PICU. If...

  11. Combined NNP/PNP programs

    NeuroNP replied to NeuroNP's topic in Nurse Practitioners, NP

    I believe that you have to be an NNP to work with the critically ill kids. I've heard of PNPs working with feeder-growers and in follow-up clinics, but never with the true NICU babies. Maybe someone...

  12. Peds ER NP

    NeuroNP posted a topic in Pediatric

    I'm a nursing student who is interested in NICU, but lately, I've been thinking about other options as well. I really liked a PICU rotation I did and I worked in the ED (adults and peds) before...

  13. OT: Nashville fun

    NeuroNP posted a topic in Tennessee Nursing

    Please excuse the off topic-ness of this post. I'm looking for some "local" info. My wife and I are going to a wedding in Nashville this Sunday and have decided to spend the night and try to do...

  14. New Grad RN, can I work NICU?

    NeuroNP replied to WildcatFanRN's topic in NICU, Neonatal

    UK is prety slow about follow-ups from what I understand. St Joe East and Central Baptist both have Level II NICUs. I sent you a

  15. New Grad RN, can I work NICU?

    NeuroNP replied to WildcatFanRN's topic in NICU, Neonatal

    Hey there. I'm in Lexington and I know that the NICUs over here will consider new grads. I'm externing in a unit now that HR told me "doesn't hire new grads" but they've all but offered me a job...

  16. Busy morning

    NeuroNP posted a topic in NICU, Neonatal

    Yesterday was a busy day. I'm externing in the NICU and we had 5 c-sections with admits to us (not counting the ones for NBN) before noon. We are an 8 bed Level IIb NICU in a suburban community...

  17. Busy morning

    NeuroNP replied to NeuroNP's topic in NICU, Neonatal

    We've actually got two sets of triplets coming this summer. We've only got one MFM guy so far, but he's got a fairly busy practice (he did the 5 sections the other day) for one MD. He's got two sets...

  18. Busy morning

    NeuroNP replied to NeuroNP's topic in NICU, Neonatal

    Exactly! I like the longer term kids as well, if they need a lot. It's those in between feeder-growers that I don't really

  19. Busy morning

    NeuroNP replied to NeuroNP's topic in NICU, Neonatal

    I hope it stays more like this. Honestly, most of the time (sometimes slow is nice) I'd prefer to have either a few really sick kids that need a lot or lots of new admissions of kids who after...

  20. KY nurses and students STAND UP. What part of KY are you from.

    NeuroNP replied to dark10gable's topic in General Nursing

    I'm externing right now in the NICU at SJE. The new Maternity Annex is supposed to be very nice. The nurses in the NICU/NBN talk about it all the time. I'm hoping to go to the NICU after...

  21. KY nurses and students STAND UP. What part of KY are you from.

    NeuroNP replied to dark10gable's topic in General Nursing

    Really? I'm going into my second year at BCTC and we've not heard anything about PDAs. Maybe this is something they're only requiring of the incoming class. It seems odd though. I've got an old...

  22. Thermometer Question

    NeuroNP posted a topic in Pediatric

    My wife and I are expecting our first baby in July and we're registering now. We registered for a basic infant care kit that has a digital themometer in it, but I'd like to have something more...

  23. Holding an intubated baby with a UAC

    NeuroNP replied to elizabells's topic in NICU, Neonatal

    I asked some other nurses in our unit about this and I was told that we don't let them hold a baby with a UAC for fear of not being able to see the site and if something went wrong, they could do some...

  24. Male Nurses in Neonatal

    NeuroNP replied to bigq2000's topic in NICU, Neonatal

    I'm externing in the NICU right now. It's a small unit and I'm the only guy other than the two Neonatologists, but it's great. I'm like a celebrity! :chuckle When I attend a delivery, all the Labor...

  25. wishful thinking

    NeuroNP replied to narcissus's topic in NICU, Neonatal

    I'd echo what everyone has said about 12-hour shifts. I had never worked more than 8 hours until I became a CNA on a stepdown unit. Then I started working 12s. I was scared at first like you that...