elizabells BSN, RN

elizabells is a BSN, RN and specializes in NICU.

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   Problems with blood bank

   elizabells replied to Sweeper933's topic in NICU, Neonatal

   Okay, I know I'm terrible, and I'm sorry you're having frustrations with this (and I would be BOILING mad if I were you) but I'm giggling like a fiend right now. It's late, I guess. Nothing about this...
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   One of those weeks

   elizabells replied to elizabells's topic in NICU, Neonatal

   The tally from the last M&M was 18 in a month. Which more than doubled our previous high, which was 8. We took the other NEC twin off the other day 2/2 a bad bleed. On the bright side, I had the...
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   One of those weeks

   elizabells replied to elizabells's topic in NICU, Neonatal

   Jesus mercy. Now we have a neonatal leukemia. Our fellow told me today we've had fourteen deaths this month. The NEC kid died. We got another bad, bad NEC from an OSH a few days ago, and today they...
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   One of those weeks

   elizabells posted a topic in NICU, Neonatal

   So in the past week, we've had: A former 36wk TGA who was grown for a while, full feeds, used to take him off the monitor and walk him around. Then we did his arterial switch. Died suddenly just after...
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   pain management in infants with chest tubes

   elizabells replied to dopeyrn's topic in NICU, Neonatal

   Well, we do have a new TEN PAGE flowsheet for PCAs and drips... that'll fix
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   pain management in infants with chest tubes

   elizabells replied to dopeyrn's topic in NICU, Neonatal

   yappy, the thing that's frustrating is that we've DONE all that. JHACO hit us hard on our (total lack of) pain management this summer. The issue is a total culture change at this point. The knowledge...
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   pain management in infants with chest tubes

   elizabells replied to dopeyrn's topic in NICU, Neonatal

   You guys, if I told you how hard I had to fight and kick and scream today to get ONE DOSE of PO Tylenol for a kid who'd just been circed, who was lying there going ballistic, PIPP score of 10, with no...
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   Things you'd LOVE to be able to tell patients, and get away with it.

   elizabells replied to AngelfireRN's topic in Patient, Colleague Relations

   1. PLEASE stop pretending you understand more than the most basic English. The doctors are starting to think I'm crazy when I call them back for the tenth time to explain the gravity of your child's...
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   Things you'd LOVE to be able to tell patients, and get away with it.

   elizabells replied to AngelfireRN's topic in Patient, Colleague Relations

   "If the smell of smoke coming off you can knock me, who has smoked a pack a day for ten years, halfway off my feet and make me instantly nauseated when you come to visit your...
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    pain management in infants with chest tubes

    elizabells replied to dopeyrn's topic in NICU, Neonatal

    Oh, bitty, they hate me too. I got called into the principal's office and warned that my Pyxis usage was being monitored because I actually, you know, GAVE PRN's when they were ordered on an ECMO...
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    pain management in infants with chest tubes

    elizabells replied to dopeyrn's topic in NICU, Neonatal

    Pain meds for chest tubes? Oh, that would be nice. Most of the time I can't get them to order meds when they're putting the chest tube IN, like not even lidocaine, let alone Fentanyl or
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    nursing assistants mixing breastmilk

    elizabells replied to Lil' sister's topic in NICU, Neonatal

    Man, we don't even let moms put their own breast milk in the fridge anymore. Like Steve said, triple scan with the barcode dealie. When a junior nurse screwed up EBM, they got suspended. Once it...
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    MRSA colonization and staff

    elizabells replied to oramar's topic in Infectious Disease

    Nope. They were off for two weeks, paid. I do know of one woman who was actually infected while working, and the strain was identified as originating with a particular patient. She had multiple...
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    Gravity Feeds

    elizabells replied to NICU Mama's topic in NICU, Neonatal

    I promise that it's not. We just passed JCAHO, and while we did have to make some changes, this wasn't one of them. ALL of our cares on 99% of our babies are at 8-11-2-5, and the general practice is...
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    Funny/happy NICU moments needed

    elizabells replied to 2curlygirls's topic in NICU, Neonatal

    Or with every heelstick/IV start/diaper change: If you'd stop KICKING ME this wouldn't take so long and I'd leave you alone