This is not a new thing...We tried cup feeding in 1998 in my NI unit... Thankfully the docs revolted because the nurses were going to... This is the most ridiculous thing I've seen tried in my 16...
KayceNICURN replied to KellyRN2011's topic in NICU, Neonatal
I started immediately in a Lvl 3 nicu after graduation... But I had the advantage of having had my 29 weeker in the unit for six weeks so my daughters primary nurse and her attending neo pulled for...
KayceNICURN replied to sab7169's topic in NICU, Neonatal
We do a variety of care times ...9-12-3 and 8-11-2 for most of our po feeders... Occasionally we have 10-1-4 but I don't like those because often times it knocks parents out of the 7 pm feeding...
I am not only a NICU nurse (16 years and counting ) I am also the mom of a former 29 weeker... She stayed for six weeks...and I agree about taking stress off the parents. It was my experience as a...