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  1. Interesting cases anyone?

    NNICU-RN replied to Humbled_Nurse's topic in NICU, Neonatal

    The only intresting cases for the week is : 1) 39 weeker with dextrocardia and neonatal stroke and 2) VACTERAL 28 weeker with major cardiac defects : ASD, PDA , scoliosis ,no gallbladder, imperfoate...

  2. Speaking of tape residue...(and other pet peeves)

    NNICU-RN replied to Bortaz's topic in NICU, Neonatal

    I hate tangled lines and not having labels on if 3 or more is used. I also hate messy incubators where you store the

  3. polyurethane nasogastric tubes

    NNICU-RN replied to gammy1957's topic in NICU, Neonatal

    All these replies is good.I neber thought of how long the ng was in the baby or when it was changed. In handoff we just communicate the level of the tube. On our unit we use pink tape to mark, duoderm...

  4. Has anyone ever 'taped' a gravity feed?

    NNICU-RN replied to tinkerbell419's topic in NICU, Neonatal

    That's intresting. I haven' t heard of that. I thought it would be the other way

  5. Has anyone ever 'taped' a gravity feed?

    NNICU-RN replied to tinkerbell419's topic in NICU, Neonatal

    That is unsafe its like giving a bolus of feeding.Its too rapid for my comfort. It doesn't hurt to put the feeding over a syringe pump.

  6. trouble with NICU orientation :/

    NNICU-RN replied to NICURNgrad's topic in NICU, Neonatal

    Try to help out with admissions during your down time especially the ICU admissions or during codes. It helps you practice. Even if it just writing down the