NeoNurseTX

MD Anderson is the highest.

I interviewed there and declined after finding out the pay.

TxSunflower, check your PMs.

There is one called "Preemies" and I'm not sure of the authors but it's by two women. I think they are NNPs.

We had that issue in the past so for the past few years we haven't been filtering lipids.

Yup, sure would.

Most new grad positions should have been filled for Dec grads last year but postions for May grads should open up in March-ish.

As for other options for Houston NICUs, there is Woman's Hopsital of Texas in the med center, St. Joseph Medical Center downtown, MANY outlying Hermann NICUs other than the Medical Center. Cypress-Fairbanks, Oakbend, erm...can't think of any more right now.

Definitely don't move here w/o a job lined up. Having NICU experience in school as my capstone course I think helped me out.

Same here! I learned great time management skills at St Joe's and am ever thankful for all the hands that are at Hermann!

After I graduated, my school never sent my ATT and I had no clue...so I graduated in May and couldn't even sit for NCLEX until August. And jasy, they are here to serve the public, not the nurses...at all.

My unit does self scheduling and currently we work a holiday every other year (ie, TG and NY one year, Christmas the next, repeat). This year we had to work a day TOUCHING the holiday if we didn't work the actual holiday...which meant no one could go anywhere unless we had PTO already approved. We are looking for a new way to do holiday scheduling.... ideas??

I think a hospital in Cyfair outside of Houston is unionized.

In NICU with run a lot of stuff with TPN/IL and piggyback IVFs into TPN.. but we change out the TPN and and all tubing running with anything with dextrose in it q24h. I'm not sure what is the "norm" on adults for changing lines.

It drives me batty and makes me wonder what they say about me?? I'm really quiet and don't socialize with my coworkers really outside of work (it seems most like the bar scene if they're around my age and those older than me have the family life) so I'm probably either seen as stuck up (no, just don't want to gossip or get drunk!) or weird. Oh well.