LoveTheNICU

LoveTheNICU has 6 years experience and specializes in NICU (Level 3-4), MSN-NNP.

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1. Com'on, you got one...What is your heart wrenching moment?

   LoveTheNICU replied to CrunchBerries's topic in General Nursing

   Working as a Neonatal NP in a level 4 NICU, I've had several... But one of the worst by far was during my last pregnancy. Anyone in NICU can tell you that the worst time of our own pregnancies are...

2. Favorite Dr or Nurse Name

   LoveTheNICU replied to sethmctenn's topic in Nursing Humor

   Dr. Leak-

3. What do you use for pain control for PICC insertions?

   LoveTheNICU replied to ICN_RN's topic in NICU, Neonatal

   As a newer NNP, I came into a practice where the "more experienced" NNPs tended to restrain the infants hand and foot and give sucrose for PICC insertions. A few of the newer girls and I have adopted...

4. Subutex withdraw

   LoveTheNICU replied to doularoz's topic in NICU, Neonatal

   I don't think the results are in yet, as she was still working on the research this spring and with the time between research and publishing, I can't imagine we will see them any time soon. However,...

5. Family Support Person

   LoveTheNICU replied to lmwnnicurn's topic in NICU, Neonatal

   Spacey, I will see about getting some contact information for you- if she doesn't mind, of course- and getting better answers for your questions if at all possible. I don't know if I will have a...

6. Family Support Person

   LoveTheNICU replied to lmwnnicurn's topic in NICU, Neonatal

   We do have a designated support person, who has been working for our unit just over two years on a grant-type arrangement. She has a social work/counseling background of some sort, but is not a...

7. Maybe an ignorant question, but I'm asking it anyway....

   LoveTheNICU replied to greenfiremajick's topic in NICU, Neonatal

   All the way back to your original question- I think the reason you may see NNP positions listed as "MSN preferred" is because not so long ago, you could become an NNP as a certificate-type program if...

8. Infant with reflux-Nsg DX help

   LoveTheNICU replied to Cheer4WVU's topic in Nursing Student Assistance

   I would think along the lines of a "risk for" diagnosis if you cannot find anything in his assessment to support a problem. Or if you feel mom is not understanding the infant's true condition, what...

9. Managing O2 changes in preemie

   LoveTheNICU replied to twizzlers67's topic in NICU, Neonatal

   This is one of those questions that plauges the NICU, so it's completely normal to be confused by this! The overriding thing that I try to remember in this situation is that in GENERAL, too much...

10. Octuplets

    LoveTheNICU replied to Sweeper933's topic in NICU, Neonatal

    I don't know the weights of the babies at this point, but in my NICU, we follow a protocol that any baby less than 1500g has an OG regardless of NC or CPAP. This is based on research regarding...

11. diagnosis question....

    LoveTheNICU replied to sleepy1010's topic in Nursing Student Assistance

    The problem with the "risk for pulmonary embolism" diagnosis is that it is not actually a nursing diagnosis. But you are on the right track. What nursing diagnosis would a pulmonary embolism

12. Pphn

    LoveTheNICU replied to 3yrDiploma's topic in NICU, Neonatal

    When I think about PPHN, it helps me to think about it's other name- persistent fetal circulation- because that really does describe what is going on. In utero, the baby's blood supply comes in...

13. Subutex withdraw

    LoveTheNICU replied to doularoz's topic in NICU, Neonatal

    I am working on finishing my NNP, and one of my professors is very heavily involved in a study right now that is comparing the effects of buprenorphine and methadone. They have studied over 800...

14. rehabilitation in the NICU

    LoveTheNICU replied to mslinzyann's topic in NICU, Neonatal

    We most certainly do have rehab people involved in our NICU. Physical therapy, occupational therapy and speech/language pathologists all are involved in the care of some of our infants. Specifically,...

15. New Dual Lumen PICCs

    LoveTheNICU replied to SteveNNP's topic in NICU, Neonatal

    Our NNPs have recently started putting these dual lumen PICCs in some of our larger babies- not sure why they are choosing just the bigger ones, I haven't seen P/P on them at all yet. Mostly, they are...