Baby Wrangler

Baby Wrangler

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  1. Dealing with cpap machines and skin damage

    Baby Wrangler replied to tinkerbell419's topic in NICU, Neonatal

    I think this is definitely a common problem! You shouldn't feel bad because sometimes it is not preventable. We had one baby that had such bad skin breakdown over the nose bridge that she had to be...

  2. Newly qualified - anxiety/hopelessness

    Baby Wrangler replied to unbridledhell's topic in Health, Stress Management

    I'm really sorry to hear that you're having such a hard time. My first year of nursing was pretty rough too, huge learning curve and lots of stress but it got much better after the first year. That...

  3. Ask a question till reporting nurse can't answer one

    Baby Wrangler replied to Emergent's topic in Patient, Colleague Relations

    I would rather a grillmaster than the person who strolls in half an hour late and rushes you through report by making impatient faces and going "yeah yeah yeah...". Like what I'm telling you is...

  4. Back pain RN

    Baby Wrangler replied to nursefortheLord's topic in NICU, Neonatal

    I won't lie lol, I don't know of any type of bedside nursing that doesn't require long periods of standing. The only time I sit down is to chart on the computer. And after doing four days in a row,...

  5. Moving from open concept to single room

    Baby Wrangler posted a topic in NICU, Neonatal

    So my unit is moving next month to single rooms from an open concept nursery and everyone is a bit nervous to say the least. So now we're going to have three pods, with babies grouped into each pod,...

  6. Bedside Reporting? YES OR NO?

    Baby Wrangler replied to segui19's topic in Canada

    I imagine it would also depend on what kind of area you work in. I work in the NICU (in Ontario) and since we only get two or three patients we only do bedside reporting, plus the babies are literally...

  7. skin to skin with UVCs

    Baby Wrangler replied to marpcurn's topic in NICU, Neonatal

    Coffee Nurse, we don't leave them in for longer than a week either, but I guess what I meant was those room air 30/31 week kiddos that are just working up on feeds but have a uvc for the first week as...

  8. skin to skin with UVCs

    Baby Wrangler replied to marpcurn's topic in NICU, Neonatal

    My unit is definitely ok taking the babies out with UVCs. I usually wait a day after it's been inserted so that it's dried a bit. I mean, infection wise, the cord stump has dried around and been...

  9. Moving from open concept to single room

    Baby Wrangler replied to Baby Wrangler's topic in NICU, Neonatal

    Thanks for the tips everyone! I just worry that we're so short staffed right now in our current unit, and we're moving in a month haha. And since our hiring spree to fix the short staffed situation,...

  10. Pre-Nursing student: RPN(LPN) Or RN?

    Baby Wrangler replied to Filibus's topic in Canada

    Well I don't know about the selling out lol...but yes to the applying for magnet

  11. Immigrant and an RPN having a hard time getting hired

    Baby Wrangler replied to alrak88's topic in International Nursing

    Have you tried going to any nursing job fairs? I know that Toronto holds quite a few every year. And did you take any bridging courses? Maybe your classmates have had better luck and am able to refer...

  12. Pre-Nursing student: RPN(LPN) Or RN?

    Baby Wrangler replied to Filibus's topic in Canada

    I can only speak for Toronto ON, but I think it also depends on the area that you want to work in. I work NICU, and from what I've seen in Toronto (correct me if I'm wrong), they only hire RNs. The...

  13. Best way to get to NICU?

    Baby Wrangler replied to vintage_RN's topic in NICU, Neonatal

    I also work in a Canadian NICU, and quite a number of our nurses have adult population experience. I myself worked NICU straight out of school but our unit hires nurses with adult experience too. I...

  14. Developmental Care Specialist

    Baby Wrangler replied to TeenyTiny's topic in NICU, Neonatal

    Our unit has one! She's called the Parent Resource Nurse though, but basically she is a developmental care specialist. I'm not sure about the education requirements but she used to be a nicu RN, with...

  15. Different Shift Hours

    Baby Wrangler replied to resqbug's topic in NICU, Neonatal

    I agree! Everybody always dreads when the eight-hour person goes home at 3 pm, especially when it's a crazy hectic day, as the other people have to pick up their babies on top of their own...

  16. RN Job Market in Ontario Sucks.

    Baby Wrangler replied to cupquake's topic in Canada

    I was going to suggest relocating to a larger city actually. I work in Toronto and a lot of my colleagues have relocated from smaller towns in Ontario to work in Toronto. There's a larger number of...

  17. What is an NPA and how do you collect one?

    Baby Wrangler replied to tinkerbell419's topic in NICU, Neonatal

    What does NPA stand for? Is it like a nasopharyngeal swab? We don't do those all that often but you have to stick the swab pretty deep down the baby's nostril. We have special softer flexible swabs...

  18. Formula Scanning

    Baby Wrangler replied to nursechappell's topic in NICU, Neonatal

    We have milk prep techs that prepare the formula and breastmilk in syringes and they put labels on them to scan. If it's breastmilk, the mums put the labels on their own containers but if it's formula...

  19. Random question.

    Baby Wrangler replied to katierobin23's topic in NICU, Neonatal

    In our unit, when the babies are in a crib, our parent resource and developmental care nurse (that's her title) tells us to alternate the babies every do-up. So they first face one end of the crib and...

  20. What size OG tube for decompression

    Baby Wrangler replied to tjnkjn99's topic in NICU, Neonatal

    On my unit, we usually use 8 Fr too for decompression but those babies tend to be placed NPO already, for NEC watch, etc. If we think it's just a huge cpap belly and we're still continuing feeds we...

  21. Need advise

    Baby Wrangler replied to SailLove80's topic in NICU, Neonatal

    Wow, your hospital sounds extremely harsh and unfair. I've never heard of anyone in my unit being forced to resign, and of course there have been mistakes, serious ones at times but they were...

  22. Thanksgiving/Christmas

    Baby Wrangler replied to lrgreer1's topic in NICU, Neonatal

    For Christmas, we buy each baby these giant stockings and on night shifts in the weeks before Christmas we decorate them with glitter pens with their names on it. Then we fill them up with chocolates...