TeenyTinyBabyRN

TeenyTinyBabyRN BSN, RN

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  1. 8hr vs. 12hr work days

    TeenyTinyBabyRN replied to sjm30's topic in Nurse Management

    Well, most of the world does not work evenings or nights, which is what 2/3 of the nurses have to work, for 8 hour

  2. Preg ns - fetal deformity/birth defects?

    TeenyTinyBabyRN replied to KELLYGIRL's topic in General Nursing

    I realize this is an old post, but just for the heck of it... I know in NICU, if you are pregnant you are not allowed to care for babies that have

  3. ADN at Tarrant County College or BSN at Texas A&M Corpus Christi?

    TeenyTinyBabyRN replied to Trinklee's topic in Texas Nursing

    Personally, I would go with the higher passing rate. I felt like I was extremely prepared for the NCLEX, after graduating. From my experience, love will work it out no matter where you are, if it is...

  4. ADN at Tarrant County College or BSN at Texas A&M Corpus Christi?

    TeenyTinyBabyRN replied to Trinklee's topic in Texas Nursing

    If you can afford your BSN, go for that. Some hospitals will pay slightly more ($0.25/hr-ish), for a BSN. Plus, if you get your BSN now, you won't have as far to go if you want to get your MSN some...

  5. ER VS ICU NURSING

    TeenyTinyBabyRN replied to Johnny1414's topic in Emergency

    Hey Wooh, I am guilty as charged! And not having my pateints on a monitor or being able to stare at them constantly turns my world

  6. RNC exam

    TeenyTinyBabyRN replied to RN4theTiny's topic in NICU, Neonatal

    I used the Core Corriculum for Neonatal Intensive Care Nursing, that I bought off of Amazon, and it was very helpful. I also took the NICU Solutions class. Look it up on line to see if they are...

  7. What causes As and Bs during gavage feeding?

    TeenyTinyBabyRN replied to LRC_RN's topic in NICU, Neonatal

    One cause can be reflux. When an NG/OG tube is in, the sphincter is unable to close completely allowing stomach contents to come back

  8. Weirdest, funniest, grossest male teenager pt. Stories

    TeenyTinyBabyRN replied to Mtb97's topic in Nursing Humor

    This wasn't a patient, it was my brother, when he was about 9 (I am 2 years older). We were in the car, and my mother was driving us home from soccer practice. He had a plastic watch that he had...

  9. Using Creative Charting...

    TeenyTinyBabyRN replied to luv2rsq's topic in General Nursing

    Does sacrum/sacral area work for butt

  10. Silly random nursing thoughts, one sentence, NO JUDGMENTAL FOLKS ALLOWED

    TeenyTinyBabyRN replied to wooh's topic in Nursing Humor

    Translation of the alarms for the baby in the pod next to me: "I want my ETT

  11. NICU certification

    TeenyTinyBabyRN replied to lovemybabes's topic in NICU, Neonatal

    The review class was great (I took it when she came to Fort Worth, so I drove 7 hours from Corpus Christi), and it was totally worth it. The Core Corricullum for Neonate Intensive Care Nursing is a...

  12. Are oral contraceptives healthcare?

    TeenyTinyBabyRN replied to cargalrn's topic in Activism, Healthcare

    The most expensive, just $20 a month. Your company obviously did not list my birth control. My job's insurance plan from 3 years ago did not pay for birth contrl and I had to pay $75 a month out of...

  13. The strangest thing you've ever seen on an x-ray?

    TeenyTinyBabyRN replied to Spirit of Humor's topic in Nursing Humor

    Split notochord or "butterfly verbetra." The thoracic spine split and then came together again, so he had 2 spines that formed a heart shape. He was also situs inversus, with

  14. The dumbest thing I ever said to a patient.

    TeenyTinyBabyRN replied to KalipsoRed21's topic in Nursing Humor

    In the NICU, when a baby bradys, the first thing we ussually do is "stimulate" them to try to bring their heart rate back up. We ussually pat their butt or rub their feet. Well, I had taken one of...

  15. Australian Home Birth Advocate Dies After Childbirth

    TeenyTinyBabyRN replied to Not_A_Hat_Person's topic in Ob/Gyn

    From a NICU perspective, home births freak me out. When we hear a baby is coming in from a home birth, we all get ready for a train wreck. These admits are almost never pretty. We see severe MAS...

  16. Apologizing for my prima donna ICU coworkers.

    TeenyTinyBabyRN replied to NickiLaughs's topic in Emergency

    I work NICU, and occasionally we get a baby from home (sometimes it's a home birth... YIKES! ~clutches chest~ they are never pretty, but I digress). All I ask for, from the ER is an airway and...

  17. TV shows and movies that are ruined, because you know better

    TeenyTinyBabyRN replied to HollyHobby's topic in Nursing Humor

    I work in NICU, so the House episode where Chase decides he's going to be a Neonatologist for the week, had me seething. I want to know who they are consulting with. Foreman: "Your baby's (full...

  18. Do Not Send to Hospital From Nursing Home

    TeenyTinyBabyRN replied to toughjob,nurse's topic in General Nursing

    Shouldn't the new order to send him to the hospital override his old order to not

  19. Worst doctors orders ever received

    TeenyTinyBabyRN replied to jenfromjersey's topic in Emergency

    One word was written in the chart. No time. No date. No route. No frequency. No amount. No signature. Just "Phenobarb" Glycerin suppository to an baby with an illeostomy and jujenostomy for no...

  20. What phrases do you use?

    TeenyTinyBabyRN replied to JBudd's topic in Emergency

    NICU... FLK- Funny Looking Kid (something probably genticly wrong) Most common cause of FLKs are FLPs CTD (Circling the Drain... and can't hold on to the

  21. baby not keen on breast and jiterry..what to do

    TeenyTinyBabyRN replied to raynienatasha's topic in Ob/Gyn

    For some reason fear of coma/brain damage doesn't deter some very deterimend women. I could explain until I am blue in the face about why we need to get that glucose up, with no avail, for some...

  22. Please don't tell me I have to work in the ER?!

    TeenyTinyBabyRN replied to **All Heart RN**'s topic in Forensic

    I work in NICU, and one of our nurses is a SANE nurse. She has never worked ER and only gets calle down their to do the

  23. What is the most interesting case you've seen in the ER?

    TeenyTinyBabyRN replied to BigDiesel's topic in Emergency

    A baby with a pentaology of cantrell variant. Insetead of a sternal cleft, he had no sternum. You could see his heart beating and it was so bizzarre. When he would sneeze, first he would suck in...

  24. Nurse charting stuff she did not do.

    TeenyTinyBabyRN replied to Peetz's topic in General Nursing

    You don't have to be "nosey" to realize someone is falsifing documents. We had a nurse fired because when she had to leave early(1200), the nurse taking over for her discovered she had filled out her...

  25. How do you get thicker skin?

    TeenyTinyBabyRN replied to Loves2Lurk's topic in Emergency

    Just remember that when a lot of people walk into the ER, their sense of civility or the normal rules of society can go right out the window. When I was a student, I had a middle age women (no hx of...