JenKatt

Anyone have a contact number (outside the main HR number) at Haley?

Anyone apply for a non staff nurse position? I applied back on 2/12 for an Informatics position and am in limbo. It closed on the 20th, and now says complete (instead of pending HR speciailist). Wondering how different this hiring process might be th...

Thanks for the reply! I actually reworded the search last night and came upon some info on security and access given to users by an NI nurse. Yes my school does have a Phd program (I'm at Maryland). Here's the problem. I'm in Florida. I don't know an...

Hey ya'll, I'm new to the NI board and to NI. I've been a superuser in the past but just started 1. a heck of an NI job and 2. my MSN in NI. Anyways since I'm new to everything I'm in a quandary. For one thing I need to interview an NI nurse who has ...

I'm not in NJ anymore, but have worked every concievable shift and have found once you're on nights it's not so bad as long as you stick to it if possible on your days off. I really do get out by 6:15 (we work 6-6) usually earlier. I do stay awake us...

our hospital likes 2cc/kg/hr for 24 hours. once below that we start to look at it.

Before an infant can go home, often NICUs will have the parents sleep overnight at the hospital with the infant. This is to ensure that the parents are able to care for the infant and whatever medical needs it has, feeding, monitor, etc.

Just a word of warning. Your cut in pay will be painful!

Our TPN/ IVF tibing is q72 hours, our lipids are q24 and most of our med tubing is q 72, bgut our PGE's are 48, milrinone q48. pretty much whenever a new syringe or new bag has to be hung, the tubing goes with.

I'd say 20% sounds right for twins and triplets. We had a rash of multiples not that long ago. only one set of twins went home together, the other 6 or 7 sets of 2 and 3 went home at different times.

Every 48 hours? Seems a bit much. In your smaller kids, doesn't there skin getting eaten up with all of the changes? Our central line infection rate is also pretty respectable with a 7 day turn around on dressings.

Most of our bad gut kids get zantac in their TPN and reglan IV when they are placed on NPO. We also use sucrose in NPO kids unless it's a bad belly. Usually use the dip the pacifier method, but some of us do use a 1/2cc in a syringe coating the mouth...

I live down here, our hospital is involved with the conference since we are the largest NICU in the area and have a ton of NNPs. I would get a rental. There is a Radisson directly across the street for the sheraton. There's a beach front shopping/ di...

Since we're a dedicated children's hospital we have a lot more resources I think. Our broviac dressings are changed by our hospital IV team q7 days or PRN at the bedside nurses request. Our PICC and midline dsgs are changed by our unit PICC/ midline ...

We had a patient not that long ago who had a chest tube for months after a TE fistula repair. He had a chylothorax post op that would not heal and repeated surgery was not an option (it's a very long twisted story). So the little one wound up on Port...

Once in a blue moon we'll use continuous with some of our really bad gastrics, but even with intermittent, we'll only aspirate/ check patency once a shift or if we're gotting nothing out and the baby's belly is getting bigger

Don't take ACH off your list. Most of us that work here really do like it. The pay isn't great, but the experience you get here is incredible. It is a bonus to get the experience you get here vs TGH or St Joe's. We get the kids no one else can handle...

Our unofficial policy is to change probe placement with hands on, which is usually q6. Feet, wrists or hands are fair game. It can go on the same extremity as the BP cuff, just hope you remember that when your sats drop that its because of the cuff. ...

BIORN, You could have been me back in 97. I had a adjunct professor teach my first clinical rotation, community health, nursing home stuff. She was a psych NP and wanrted to help all of us. She almost ran me out of this profession. She told me I had ...

I beg to differ about not getting yelled at during COT. Depending on your class and it's instructors you may or may not get yelled at. I did, but a few of my co-workers didn't jen

Here's the answers as best as I can do... I'm active duty Air Force 1. Yes, if you have a BSN you are commissioned. Depending on the amount of experience you have, will determine your rank. You get 6 months for every year you have been a civilian nur...

I use to be from Jersey till the military moved me to Florida, I worked at St Joe's in Paterson

We use WMNS, Workload Management Nursing System or something like that

I'm glad I was able to so you the positives. We live in a negative world, I'm sorry to say, but only we can allow it to happen. I love being a nurse, I hate the Admin and my pay, but I love being a nurse.

I can do respiratory, but I have a hard time with some vomit and poop...