dawngloves

dawngloves BSN, RN

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  1. ped CICU to NICU?

    dawngloves replied to nurserox's topic in NICU, Neonatal

    I think you'll transition easily. The only difference is you'll see less cardiac issues and more GI and pulmonary.You'd be an assest to any unit when it comes to PDAs and the occasional missed cardiac...

  2. Great story about a preemie from over 20 years ago!

    dawngloves replied to BittyBabyGrower's topic in NICU, Neonatal

    Is his vent disconnected in that one picture???!!

  3. Sick twin

    dawngloves replied to Nicky30's topic in NICU, Neonatal

    That happened on our unit once. 36 weeker in for r/o sepsis, coded during a car seat test. :uhoh21: Ended up going home on a monitor after a million dollar workup that yielded

  4. Sick twin

    dawngloves replied to Nicky30's topic in NICU, Neonatal

    Hard to say without knowing what happened prior to the event. If the baby was eating he could have refluxed and had an apenic

  5. Survey: Pain reassessment in neonatal ICU

    dawngloves replied to ube08's topic in NICU, Neonatal

    Your case studies were on peds

  6. Did you see this on the Today Show?

    dawngloves replied to dawngloves's topic in NICU, Neonatal

    No, term is term. The heart starts beating at a certain gestation, lungs develop at a certain weeks time.Term is 40 weeks no matter how many babies you have in

  7. Did you see this on the Today Show?

    dawngloves posted a topic in NICU, Neonatal

    Cheaper by the half-dozen? Expecting sextuplets A young Arizona couple is making room for six babies http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/18353371/ Her goal is 28 weeks?? Because she's tired of being on...

  8. Did you see this on the Today Show?

    dawngloves replied to dawngloves's topic in NICU, Neonatal

    Congratulations. We are all aware of that. However, did you knowingly go into this and then ask for handouts for an event that you

  9. Delivery Hospital vs Children's Hospital

    dawngloves replied to Krystljoy's topic in NICU, Neonatal

    :chuckle Yes, indeed! I give so much kudos to L&D nurses. Some of the smells in those

  10. Hypothermia

    dawngloves replied to dragonfly6352's topic in NICU, Neonatal

    That makes more sense to me. I couldn't for the life of me figure out how that pad could get so hot! I know I think, "Is this thing going to be warm enough??" when I crack it. Couldn't believe it...

  11. Hypothermia

    dawngloves replied to dragonfly6352's topic in NICU, Neonatal

    Really? We use it on all our ELBW deliveries and have never experienced that. I don't think it's even designed to go over 100 degrees. If you have issues, you should contact Drager. Maybe it was a bad...

  12. "I do everything an LPN can do" Oh,my gosh !

    dawngloves replied to time4meRN's topic in General Nursing

    New addition to ACLS, Ascultate for fart sounds to confirm ett

  13. Delivery Hospital vs Children's Hospital

    dawngloves replied to Krystljoy's topic in NICU, Neonatal

    It depends on whatever floats your personal boat. I would miss the rush of running to a stat c/s and the flood of relief when a pink, crying baby is delivered. I wouldn't miss those smelly meconium...

  14. Oh, this Pt should be on a stepdown unit, but....

    dawngloves replied to BlearnRN's topic in General Nursing

    While I agree that that was too heavy a pt for charge, I don't agree that she was sick enough for step down. (at least not where I come from). And let me ask you this: You were charge, could you not...

  15. NBC Nightly News story on preemies

    dawngloves replied to SteveNNP's topic in NICU, Neonatal

    I wish they would have focused more on the long term problems that many micro preemies have. CLD, ROP, the sensory issues, feeding issues. They aren't just little babies that are OK once they go

  16. To cover or not to cover: lipids and phototherapy

    dawngloves replied to wee one rn's topic in NICU, Neonatal

    If that's the case, I'm gonna request all my pts be under photo!

  17. Primary/secondary apnea.

    dawngloves posted a topic in NICU, Neonatal

    Can someone give me clinical examples? (recerting my NRP and can never wrap my brain around this one. maybe i should go to

  18. Do you allow rings of any kind in your NICU??? and other infection questions...

    dawngloves replied to NANSNURSE's topic in NICU, Neonatal

    We can wear a plain wedding band. We change isolette covers if they fall on the floor or when we change the

  19. Morgue procedure?

    dawngloves replied to preemieRNkate's topic in NICU, Neonatal

    :uhoh21: I have no

  20. Is this upsetting to anyone else?

    dawngloves replied to Gompers's topic in NICU, Neonatal

    Probably because the OP is 10 months old and that video was taken

  21. Morgue procedure?

    dawngloves replied to preemieRNkate's topic in NICU, Neonatal

    A trasport person comes with a Moses basket and takes them to the morgue in

  22. No reimbusement if patient satisfaction score are low?

    dawngloves replied to preemieRNkate's topic in NICU, Neonatal

    Ooops! I meant JD Powers.

  23. No reimbusement if patient satisfaction score are low?

    dawngloves replied to preemieRNkate's topic in NICU, Neonatal

    :lol2:That's a good one! It's more like they won't get a J.P Morgan award and management won't get a

  24. Primary/secondary apnea.

    dawngloves replied to dawngloves's topic in NICU, Neonatal

    That always makes me feel like screaming, "Hurry the **** up!!!!!!" As far as suctioning at the perineum, we have had this argument time and time again with OB. Their argument is that it is...

  25. Child Abuse

    dawngloves replied to RainDreamer's topic in NICU, Neonatal

    We don't do mec screens. We do a u tox if mom admits to any drinking or drug use, baby is IUGR, no pnc, or if for whatever reason they do one on mom and it comes back positive. The problem with a mec...