1) It depends on where you work and the facility utilizes their NNPs. As an RN in the NICU, the facility where I worked utilized their practitioners only during the day. They attended deliveries...
Can you suggest your educator host a skills day to simulate those skills? We have done that with our code cart to give exposure and talk through a mock code for our newer
I can't speak to have gone from PP to NICU, as NICU is 100% of my nursing experience, but I have precepted a couple of nurses who can from PP into our level III NICU and both have done very well. I...
Congrats! That's great. I have never worked anything but NICU, so I hope you love it. If I could give you some advise....and this is coming from both someone who has been there, and also as a...
Case by case here, too. Most of our intubated patients have an order for fentanyl PRN and is up to the bedside nurse's discretion as to whether the baby gets it or not. We have some nurses that give...
I feel like I had to input my manager's name and contact information when I applied to take the test because you have to have those 2 years of experience to test. My manager never said anything to me,...
I took the NICU solutions review course a couple of years ago when I was studying for my RNC-NIC and they had a version of the course that was catered for the LR exam. It was a great review and I...
I wouldn't beat yourself up. Gut issues are hard because all you can do, really is watch and wait. As the bedside nurses we definitely know our babies better than the docs lots of times because we are...