NicuGal MSN, RN

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    New Grad Trying for NICU

    NicuGal replied to UCAFblue's topic in NICU, Neonatal

    No, even with a capstone they are considered a new grad. I know it is
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    New Grad Trying for NICU

    NicuGal replied to UCAFblue's topic in NICU, Neonatal

    If they want experience maybe apply to newborn nursery or peds. You will get a range of answers about getting NRP etc. When we interview, we do not even look at that as you are a new grad with no...
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    Patient's Families as Facebook Friends....

    NicuGal replied to spacey's topic in NICU, Neonatal

    We just had 2 people out on a 10 day no pay suspension for texting parents and sending pics...the parents put it on Facebook and it filtered back to management. HR told them that this was their...
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    Orientation process

    NicuGal replied to HyperSaurus, RN's topic in NICU, Neonatal

    That sounds messed up. Ours is 16 weeks now. We have a set guideline as to what we take each week starting with 2 feeders and working our way thru Non-invasive ventilation kids, ventilated kids,...
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    MRSA Best Practices?

    NicuGal replied to Mags4711's topic in NICU, Neonatal

    We started it because of something with reimbursement for nosocomial infections. If the kid is positive at admission it most likely came from mom. When it shows up later it is considered hospital...
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    Charge Rn's. How many beds on your units?

    NicuGal replied to oldiebutgoodieRN's topic in General Nursing

    NICU....56 beds plus 7 overflow. Depends on census but minimum 16-17 nurses. No diff for charge. We don't take an assignment unless short, we do all staffing for the next shift, stock, set up bed...
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    Carseat for babies under 4lbs

    NicuGal replied to jnick31's topic in NICU, Neonatal

    The only time we used a carbed was for conjoined twins. If he passed his car seat challenge and fits snugly in there, there shouldn't be a problem. Also carbeds are not cheap and for the little...
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    MRSA Best Practices?

    NicuGal replied to Mags4711's topic in NICU, Neonatal

    Every kid that enters our unit gets
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    Lawsuit Claims Nurse Was 'Worked to Death'

    NicuGal replied to Brian's topic in General Nursing

    Luckily my hospital doesn't mandate. And we did get called on our staffing from JC...know what came out of that? We now "huddle" with L/D and the postpartum floors...we all say what our census is,...
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    MRSA Best Practices?

    NicuGal replied to Mags4711's topic in NICU, Neonatal

    We have rooms/pods with up to six kids each. We routinely screen on admission and no other routine screens after that. We do send weekly trach aspirates for all our vent kids. Once a kid comes up...
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    Reporting Critical Value..

    NicuGal replied to BlizzAngel's topic in Patient Safety Issues

    We have a smart phrase we pull into the chart of the patient that says Critical Lab value of __ called to unit. ___notified and orders received/ not received. If you take the value make sure you...
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    Charting

    NicuGal replied to kcoats2's topic in General Nursing

    All aspects of nursing require some type of
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    NEW GRAD RN IN OHIO

    NicuGal replied to msrn02's topic in Ohio Nursing

    Do you have your BSN? I will tell you that they really prefer BSN right
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    Losing Overtime pay!

    NicuGal replied to joccz123's topic in General Nursing

    Every place is different. Ours is anything over 40/week. And they used to cancel us at the end of the week, even if it was our regularly scheduled day, to avoid paying us overtime. Thank goodness...
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    Articles needed about nurses and bili lights

    NicuGal replied to TACespedes's topic in Nursing Student Assistance

    Not sure if I can find any articles, but our eye doc at work said we should be turning the lites off as they can cause the same problems as being in the sun. Also, we have had some nurses diagnosed...
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    Qs about STABLE program

    NicuGal replied to Jamuhh's topic in Pediatric

    We get a half our lunch and 2-10 minute breaks when we teach our
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    Expiration dates and preparing for JC

    NicuGal replied to ainsliesmom's topic in General Nursing

    Everything you listed we go by 30 days from opening unless otherwise noted by
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    Muslim nursing students

    NicuGal replied to mtcowgirl's topic in General Students

    Like I said, I'd look into other schools. If you know people have had issues then it sounds bad. You had mentioned your parents didn't want you to live in poverty, that is why I asked about...
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    Muslim nursing students

    NicuGal replied to mtcowgirl's topic in General Students

    Then I would hesitate to go to that school. Is their a community college by you? And have you looked into financial
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    Semi-fower position really helps abdominal pain?

    NicuGal replied to samiiow's topic in Nursing Student Assistance

    Curled in a fetal ball was how I dealt with gallbladder pain
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    Muslim nursing students

    NicuGal replied to mtcowgirl's topic in General Students

    It isn't going to matter what the school says,she will have to abide by the clinical sites infection control rules. I am not trying to be difficult, but like I said, all of our Muslim staff wear the...
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    Muslim nursing students

    NicuGal replied to mtcowgirl's topic in General Students

    I suppose they are in the sense they had to comply with infection control or lose their job. You are the only one who can decide what is important to you. They are allowed to wear shirts that come to...
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    Muslim nursing students

    NicuGal replied to mtcowgirl's topic in General Students

    Our hospital does not allow long sleeves at all, no jackets at the bedside. Think about it, you are leaning on things with your arms, you can get things on those sleeves, etc. You can wash your...
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    Lipids at night

    NicuGal replied to newnurse1987's topic in Patient Medications

    It is when our get delivered from where they are made lol. Also, most places do all the orders and labs in the AM and then they are batch
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    new graduate RN...question about holidays

    NicuGal replied to aviaa's topic in First Year After Licensure

    Where I work, if your preceptor is, them you