NICU Guy BSN, RN

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    Should Social Media shut down Conspiracy Theories?

    NICU Guy replied to Emergent's topic in Disaster Preparation

    I agree that the police are tasked to deal with issues that do not require armed officers to respond, such as crowd/traffic control at auto accidents or noise complaints from a teenager having a party...
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    Should Social Media shut down Conspiracy Theories?

    NICU Guy replied to Emergent's topic in Disaster Preparation

    Such as "We should just disband the Minneapolis police department and replace the police officers with social
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    2 yrs CLABSI free

    NICU Guy posted a topic in NICU, Neonatal

    I am happy to announce that my NICU has been able to go two years without a CLABSI. It is an amazing
  4. NICU Guy

    When Your Preceptee is a Know-it-All

    NICU Guy replied to Nurse Beth's topic in General Nursing

    Those who think they know it all ruin it for those of us who truly know it all.
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    NCLEX & The Trick

    NICU Guy replied to MNCD's topic in NCLEX Exam, Programs

    There is those words again.."trick is very accurate" . The PVT is 0.00% accurate because it was never intended to be used to determine Pass/Fail and second, the trick was changed 6 years ago due to...
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    Going back to school at 34

    NICU Guy replied to Jchin1121's topic in Pre-Nursing Students

    Not necessarily, there are less ABSN programs and they have smaller class sizes. The school I went to, the ABSN program started in the Summer and was limited to 30 students. The traditional BSN...
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    How does a new grad nurse get started in a specialty?

    NICU Guy replied to medapop's topic in General Nursing

    Accept the fact that you will know nothing coming into your first day of work. You need to be a sponge and absorb all the knowledge that your preceptor has for you. Regardless of where a new grad...
  8. NICU Guy

    How to get into NICU nursing from scratch?

    NICU Guy replied to LetMeNICU's topic in Men in Nursing

    I went through an ABSN program and graduated with my BSN at a month shy of my 48th birthday. My first new grad nursing job was NICU. So, you are essentially following my path to NICU. The one thing...
  9. NICU Guy

    CCRN (Neonatal)

    NICU Guy replied to haileyybailey3's topic in NICU, Neonatal

    Isn't that an Adult certification for non direct care nurses? Most NICU nurses choose RNC-NIC or CCRN (Neonatal). I had to look up CCRN-K to see what it
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    UAC protocol

    NICU Guy replied to Ashley NICU's topic in NICU, Neonatal

    We change from microclave distally every 5 days. UAC->microclave->T connector->tranducer with inline dedicated 10 mL saline flush attached to top of transducer (using a MicroClave Saline Lock...
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    NCLEX during PANDEMIC & PVT BAD POP UP

    NICU Guy replied to Mary218's topic in NCLEX Exam, Programs

    If you did very well in school and your school has a high NCLEX pass rate, the higher the level of the questions, the better you are doing. NCLEX looks at last 60 questions. For example, if you are on...
  12. NICU Guy

    Interested in L&D/NICU, but should I start in Med-Surg?

    NICU Guy replied to AnaBanana.RN's topic in General Nursing

    ^^ I agree^^ A 70 yr old with comorbidities and a 30 week gestation infant are two totally different creatures. There is no benefit to get a year in Adult Med-Surg
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    Deciding on a Nursing School

    NICU Guy replied to igus2666's topic in Pre-Nursing Students

    Usually, I highly recommend avoiding for-profit nursing schools due to low NCLEX pass rates, but Fortis-Pensacola had a 93.85% pass rate for 2019....
  14. NICU Guy

    Does prestige of program matter?

    NICU Guy replied to ad2020's topic in General Students

    Look for schools that are either Commission for Education in Nursing (ACEN) and the Commission on Collegiate Nursing Education (CCNE)
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    Does prestige of program matter?

    NICU Guy replied to ad2020's topic in General Students

    If you choose to stay local, the quality of the graduates that it produces matters to the local hospitals. You may have a high quality community college and a mediocre university, the hospitals will...
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    Where do you stand on opening things up during the Pandemic?

    NICU Guy replied to Convoy2022_TrumpSupporter's topic in Disaster Preparation

    We have a governor that did (may still do, I stopped watching) daily Covid briefing at 5 pm each day. Not once did he properly demonstrate what people need to do to keep safe. It would have been more...
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    Where do you stand on opening things up during the Pandemic?

    NICU Guy replied to Convoy2022_TrumpSupporter's topic in Disaster Preparation

    Fine, take the 90,000 as completely accurate (John Hopkins Covid app). I think the current state of our country is extremely overblown. 90,000 deaths (Covid), close down our country and destroy our...
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    Where do you stand on opening things up during the Pandemic?

    NICU Guy replied to Convoy2022_TrumpSupporter's topic in Disaster Preparation

    States that began lifting the restrictions (Florida, Georgia, Texas) are not seeing a huge spike in cases. For the most part, people are being responsible. The last thing they want is a huge spike in...
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    Covid19 and nursing home placement

    NICU Guy replied to Daisy Joyce's topic in Disaster Preparation

    I only heard of New York mandating nursing homes to take Covid patients. I heard a story of one nursing home that had no Covid deaths, they were sent 2 Covid positive patients, PPE, and five body...
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    Failed nursing school(technically)

    NICU Guy replied to JoC12345's topic in General Students

    It boggles my mind about the stories that students post about their clinical experiences with their clinical instructors. Most clinical instructors have a full-time job as a staff nurse. I can't...
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    Is it safe to be a nursing student right now?

    NICU Guy replied to guest1141431's topic in General Students

    Excluding NYC, the rest of the country has not been overwhelmed with Covid cases. It is safe as it is going to be. You will always have to deal with Cold/Flu (and more likely Covid) season as a nurse....
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    Moving from IN to FL

    NICU Guy replied to Abby Samendinger's topic in General Nursing

    What is your timeline from Indiana license to moving to Florida? Indiana is going to be a compact state in July (unless Covid changed the rollout). You could get an Indiana compact licence and work in...
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    Moving from IN to FL

    NICU Guy replied to Abby Samendinger's topic in General Nursing

    You do not need to live in a state in order to get a license from that state. If you were positive that you were going to move immediately after graduating, you should have applied for a Fla license...
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    School and Rentals

    NICU Guy replied to Peter's topic in General Students

    There are going to be weeks that you are going to be really busy with school and there will be weeks that will be a normal week. I would have someone else that you can utilize in case the repair and a...
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    Piloting a new unit as a new grad?

    NICU Guy replied to pinkdoves's topic in General Nursing

    On one hand, newer nurses are better at adapting to new equipment and technology since you only have 3 months using the current equipment. More experienced nurses may be more set in their ways when it...