dawngloves

dawngloves BSN, RN

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  1. Boy, Do I Feel Stupid!

    dawngloves replied to SteveNNP's topic in NICU, Neonatal

    Yeah, and the poop and throw up is much

  2. Boy, Do I Feel Stupid!

    dawngloves replied to SteveNNP's topic in NICU, Neonatal

    The better you know. Now you'll have no

  3. Do you use warmer beds?

    dawngloves replied to dawngloves's topic in NICU, Neonatal

    It may sound mean, but I so grateful when we have a term kid thats NPO and in an isolette for resp obs. Cuts down on the noise some. when they start screaming for

  4. intrauterine shunt

    dawngloves replied to mawjood's topic in NICU, Neonatal

    Interesting. I've never seen one and I guess I never will if they feel it's not worth the

  5. Do you use warmer beds?

    dawngloves replied to dawngloves's topic in NICU, Neonatal

    I know we don't have a wealthy pt population, but the hospital throws us a bone every now and again and we get some grant grant money.I'm sure some of the 800 admissions a year we get do actually pay...

  6. Do you use warmer beds?

    dawngloves replied to dawngloves's topic in NICU, Neonatal

    How does that open? How do you keep the heat

  7. Do you use warmer beds?

    dawngloves replied to dawngloves's topic in NICU, Neonatal

    Yup. We are luckier than I thought. :uhoh21: We put anyone over 32 weeks in an Air Sheild. Less stable,micros, vented kids go into a Giraffe 95% of the time. We've been doing direct admits to a pre...

  8. Do you use warmer beds?

    dawngloves replied to dawngloves's topic in NICU, Neonatal

    The blue ones??? Heck, I think I was in one when I was

  9. Premature Birth Leading Cause of Infant Mortality

    dawngloves posted a topic in NICU, Neonatal

    CHICAGO (Reuters) - Premature births accounted for more than one-third of U.S. infant deaths in 2002, twice what was previously reported, making it the leading cause of infant mortality, government...

  10. NICU Burnout...need to cry

    dawngloves replied to BlueYYsRN's topic in NICU, Neonatal

    I totally understand. Last month I was given the sickest sickys we had for days in a row. The ones on the highest settings, 100% o2, maxed out on Dopa, just waiting for them to expire. I finally had...

  11. Anyone watch ER thursday?

    dawngloves replied to t2000JC's topic in NICU, Neonatal

    I swear, every pregnant woman on that show has had some sort of high risk pregnancyy/delivery. That's why I stopped watching

  12. Medication error causes 2 deaths in Indiana NICU

    dawngloves replied to MegNeoNurse's topic in NICU, Neonatal

    Here's another take on it: Nursing Shortage and Hospital Medical

  13. What do patients say that irks you?

    dawngloves replied to NurseforPreggers's topic in Ob/Gyn

    So what do you tell them? A baby has no schedual and will eat whenever they damn well want. Do you slam the door in their

  14. Curious to hear NICU nurses perspective--23-wkr, NEC m

    dawngloves replied to wannabeL&D's topic in NICU, Neonatal

    I've dealt with similar parents before. Some are very angry and project onto the staff their feelings of guilt and fear. We are blamed for not doing enough or not knowing what we're doing. If I had a...

  15. Medication error causes 2 deaths in Indiana NICU

    dawngloves replied to MegNeoNurse's topic in NICU, Neonatal

    We don't flush with heparin anymore. When you think about it, flushing with an ml or so of heparin, 3 times a day in a 2 pound baby, is a lot of heparin. For central lines, our fluids come pre made...

  16. Curious to hear NICU nurses perspective--23-wkr, NEC m

    dawngloves replied to wannabeL&D's topic in NICU, Neonatal

    I am so glad that child isn't suffereing anymore. I hope the parents find

  17. no monitor tech?

    dawngloves replied to LanaBanana's topic in Cardiac

    I have to say, having worked both with a tech and without, I'd much rather have a tech. One place had a beeper system, which was a huge PITA. Imagine trying to start a difficult IV and your beeper...

  18. Curious to hear NICU nurses perspective--23-wkr, NEC m

    dawngloves replied to wannabeL&D's topic in NICU, Neonatal

    :yeahthat: If parents want a full code on their 22 weeker because they have a cousin who's friends niece was a 21 weeker and is normal, we will code that kid. And if we can't get a tube down their...

  19. Video cameras banned in L&D

    dawngloves replied to rph3664's topic in Ob/Gyn

    Again, it is my choice. I can chose not to go to places that have video cameras.I'd be very limited in my activites, but then again I don't have to worry about someone calling me into court because I...

  20. do you allow fetal demise infants to stay with mother in her postpartum room?

    dawngloves replied to unikuelady's topic in Ob/Gyn

    I've never been in a situation were a parent wanted to keep a baby for days in their room. Often, after holding the baby for a few hours, a mother will want to see the baby before she is d/c'd and we...

  21. Curious to hear NICU nurses perspective--23-wkr, NEC m

    dawngloves replied to wannabeL&D's topic in NICU, Neonatal

    It's hard to say, just reading second hand from a person with no medical background, what the baby is going throught right now. But my guess is that if no other hospital will take her, that her...

  22. ever have one of those days where you just

    dawngloves replied to CANADARN13's topic in NICU, Neonatal

    I feel your pain. We once lost 25 week IVF twins who were in the same room as 25 week twins born to a G12 P8 drug addicted mother.They eventually went to foster care, like the other 8

  23. Can all parents really make good decisions

    dawngloves replied to mauigal's topic in NICU, Neonatal

    This is starting to get a little off topic. The OP is wondering who would be an advocate for that particular pt. The mother who pops in every now and again or the docs that don't want to touch that...

  24. Video cameras banned in L&D

    dawngloves replied to rph3664's topic in Ob/Gyn

    Acutally, if we are resusitating a baby, the baby is not alive. :uhoh21: And yes it is my choice if I want to be photographed no matter what I am doing and

  25. Video cameras banned in L&D

    dawngloves replied to rph3664's topic in Ob/Gyn

    :yeahthat: I am tired of going to a delivery and a camera is up in my face while we are trying to get a baby to breath or intubating for thick mec! It's enough pressure as it is without worrying...