elizabells BSN, RN

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    Funny/happy NICU moments needed

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

    I hate how they don't get logic! I find myself patiently explaining stuff to my kiddos, like, every shift, but they NEVER
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    chronic cpap

    elizabells replied to sweet0176's topic in NICU, Neonatal

    For. Ev. Er. Or until their insurance tells us to quit screwing around and send them to LTC, in which case we try to get them to NC. Trachs only for airway issues or long term (like, MONTHS)...
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    What are the smallest diapers available?

    elizabells replied to HealthShepherd's topic in NICU, Neonatal

    The smallest ones do; the larger size do not. And yes, the rise is very low, I guess to accommodate umbi
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    What are the smallest diapers available?

    elizabells replied to HealthShepherd's topic in NICU, Neonatal

    We use cuddlebuns as well. We refer to the flat, white, mini-chux as
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    Weaning from CPAP

    elizabells replied to KatRNC's topic in NICU, Neonatal

    We start to trial off when they've been kicking it on 21% for a while without issues. The MDs sometimes ask us to, sometimes we just give the kid a shot if we know them well and trust them. Or if a...
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    Funny Names

    elizabells replied to nurserynurse55's topic in NICU, Neonatal

    Aw, my great-grandfather's name was Major. It was an Ellis Island Americanization of (something like)
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    Bubble CPAP?

    elizabells replied to KatRNC's topic in NICU, Neonatal

    My understanding is that their heads do go back to normal. I can spot the CPAPers on alumni day by their poor noses, but their heads look pretty okay. We haven't had an ECMO in MONTHS! I miss it
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    Bubble CPAP?

    elizabells replied to KatRNC's topic in NICU, Neonatal

    I work in the unit where bubble CPAP was invented, lo these many years ago. We use Hudson prongs with either the provided hat or stockinette. You just have to pay attention to the bubbling, and check...
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    Stethoscope size?

    elizabells replied to Coffee Nurse's topic in NICU, Neonatal

    I'd wait and see what your unit's protocol is. Ours has a Littmann for every baby, kept at bedside, no sharing unless it's an absolute emergency. Our cardiologists do use their own, and they rotate...
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    Absolute No-No's

    elizabells replied to Drysolong's topic in General Nursing

    And never disconnect GT tubing to give a med to a screaming baby. Pregestimil mixed with amoxicillin doesn't wash out of
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    Does your unit use Vapotherm?

    elizabells replied to MandaAnda's topic in NICU, Neonatal

    Steve, you forgot to tell them how it's MAGIC. If you're on 21% FiO2, it doesn't count as BPD, even if you're on it at six months old! Magic, I tell
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    Baby Jesus as a NICU admission

    elizabells replied to SteveNNP's topic in NICU, Neonatal

    I anticipate a fight over whether an asymptomatic infant born to a GBS unknown mom should get abx right away or wait for the cultures to come
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    Things Patients Have Taught Me NOT To Do

    elizabells replied to Trixxy's topic in Nursing Humor

    OW.
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    Funny Names

    elizabells replied to nurserynurse55's topic in NICU, Neonatal

    They eventually got WalMart to make it, apparently. I'd submit it to Cake Wrecks if I had a picture of
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    Funny Names

    elizabells replied to nurserynurse55's topic in NICU, Neonatal

    We have another Le-Dash-Ah sighting! My coworker's husband is a teacher, and he has a student by that name in high school, so apparently this one's been around a while. Not... so funny, but I just saw...
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    Platelet Transfusion

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

    Everything comes filtered to us from blood bank, but last week I gave platelets from a bag sent back with the kid from the OR. The anesthesia resident brought me a filter to draw it up
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    NICU preceptorship (last quarter of nursing program)

    elizabells replied to BettyPaige's topic in NICU, Neonatal

    I did my preceptorship in the NICU, and I sent the NCLEX home crying for its
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    Things people say coming out of anaesthetic

    elizabells replied to frellyou's topic in General Nursing

    When I had a biopsy for what turned out to be a costochondroma, I woke up x2 during the procedure, the second time restrained, because apparently I got a little punch-y the first time. Nothing like...
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    never scrubbed but want to be an RNFA

    elizabells replied to odos's topic in Operating Room

    Becoming an NP is another route to RNFA. The woman who basically runs our CT surgery service (one of the top in the country) is an FNP who never scrubbed a case as an RN in her life. She's a crazy...
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    How about your favorite Old Wives Tales related to health?

    elizabells replied to NurseyTonyaLPN's topic in Nursing Humor

    There's a taqueria in San Francisco that has this burrito. If you come in at full term and eat it, and don't go into labor within 24 hours, you get your money
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    Obnoxious co-workers...

    elizabells replied to RN1982's topic in General Nursing

    Outright, vocal anti-Semitism in the break room is my current favorite part of my
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    Strange things found on (or in) a pt.

    elizabells replied to squeakykitty's topic in Emergency

    Not to be totally vile, but a 5yo shouldn't be able to get anything IN there. Hymen, and all that. Playing doctor is one thing, but something else was going on
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    Talking to your neonate patients

    elizabells replied to Journey_On's topic in NICU, Neonatal

    Absolutely I do. NICU babies have been shown to be developmentally delayed specifically r/t the lack of stimulation a newborn is supposed to get, independent of other factors. I've also had parents...
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    Strange things found on (or in) a pt.

    elizabells replied to squeakykitty's topic in Emergency

    Yeah, I know kids get up to stuff, but that's a bit... not
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    Little Confused

    elizabells replied to prettygirl1987's topic in NICU, Neonatal

    None. Graduate school, take NCLEX, get job. It's not always that easy, but those are the actual