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Hi all, I am in the process of interviewing for a PICU position at NYP's Weill Cornell campus and have some questions for those who work there/have worked there as I can't find any recent threads on the topic. 1) What are holiday shift/weekend shift ...

Please feel free to PM me- I can answer these in detail for you. :)

I actually relocated from Texas to NYC in February and had a couple job offers (NICU/PICU). PM me if you have specific questions! :)

Be prepared to deal with a lot of family teaching- I know you probably dealt with family issues on the adult side as well, but families who are in the NICU are often scared out of their minds (even if the baby is there for something simple, it is ver...

I got an interview applying through their website. I have 1.5+ years experience in a high acuity Level IIIC NICU. Thanks for the response!

Hi all, I am interviewing at NYP soon and I have a couple questions for you all that currently work there- What are the weekend requirements like? Is the closest subway station in an area where I could walk after dark to the hospital by myself? Is i...

We have been slow in recent months but are seeing a boom too! Especially with high acuity kiddos.

The Medical Center itself is great for ICUs, but there are plenty of outlying branches of their hospitals that also have great units- just depends on how far you want to commute and where you end up deciding you want to live. UTMB in Galveston is go...

Loved reading this- thanks for sharing!

Housekeeping cleans our bedspaces, and our techs clean the isolettes/cribs. We change our isolettes/cribs out every 30 days. Honestly, we have discussed bedside nurses cleaning bedspaces in the recent weeks- I feel that we are a lot more protective...

What type of unit are you looking to work on? That may factor in which hospitals are the "best" to work for. I agree with the previous poster about finding out where you want to work first and basing your home search on that- there are lots of grea...

We have a specially trained transport team on our unit that were former bedside RNs- they no longer do bedside care and only work as our transport nurses now.

Hi, My boyfriend was offered a job in the NYC area, and I am trying to decide if it would be a good move for us based on whether or not I can get a job. I know new grads are having a lot of trouble finding work, but I have a BSN and 1.5 years of exp...

Keep trying! I still struggle too, but if my podmates have patients who need IVs, I always ask if I can help to gain more experience. Practice makes perfect. :)

I always take a nap before my first shift. If you can work them in a row it helps too. When I get home I have a routine and try not to do things like watch TV, etc. that may wake me up. I sleep with a fan for white noise and keep my room dark. Me...

I got lucky and my first catheter was in the OR with a patient who was already asleep for surgery. I work in the NICU now though, and it's incredibly frustrating sometimes to try to cath itty-bitty girl babies! It's also hard to try to maintain the...

Wow some of these are scary! We have tried so many different projects on our unit to try to encourage staff to wash hands/use hand sanitizer. I work in the NICU so it is hard to get our parents to comply with this too. Also, you'd be surprised how...

We will let babies come off isolation after three consecutive negative MRSA cultures.

We always put temperature probes on our babies in isolettes, immediately. If not you can overheat the baby very easily.

I love this! I am going to share with my unit. :)

Any advice from NICU nurses out there? Good things to get involved with? Good magazines to read? Good shoes to buy? Hi! I started NICU nursing as a new graduate July 2011 and I have learned a LOT and continue to learn something new every day. Good ...

I work in a Level III NICU and with some of our stable feeder/growers we use lullabies too! I've just put Pandora on my phone- there is a great station called "Rockabye Baby" which plays modern-day songs in lullaby versions- enjoyable for nurses and...

We use a staffing "grid" that determines how many nurses we can use based on census- then from there our charge nurses have to decide whether or not a particular patient's acuity will require them to "tighten up" an assignment- for example instead of...

Our unit has a lot of nurses (think 200+)- I would say maybe 5-10% are men. Some of the guys who work with us have specific reasons (their baby was in the NICU, they were a preemie themselves, etc.) but some just enjoy the work. Nice change from al...

Not sure if you've found a place or not yet but there are plenty of great 1-bedroom apartments inside the loop ranging from $750-1500 (and sometimes lower). Depends on what specifically you're looking for- location, amenities, etc.