NicuGal MSN, RN

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    First shift of preceptorship: told that my IV priming is wrong

    NicuGal replied to seks's topic in General Nursing

    This a little fish in a big ocean of things you are going to learn. Usually when a preceptor shows you how to so things it is based on what their protocols are. You have to sometimes go with the...
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    Ticked off at Ohio University

    NicuGal replied to woodsyny's topic in Ohio University

    The same thing happened to me! Said complete, but was unable to get any further than that! My other 6 friends were like, so did you sign upetc. It took 3 weeks to finally get an answer of " Due to...
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    Anyone else think HIPAA rules are getting out of hand?

    NicuGal replied to BrandonLPN's topic in HIPAA Challenges

    We don't even allow visitors without a family member in our NICU. Believe me, we run into some pretty funky family dynamics and is better to talk with the parents there. Like some one said, if I...
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    Commute for Job I would love, or less travel to Job I don't like

    NicuGal replied to countrygalrn's topic in Nursing Career

    Do you have the option of moving closer? I commute 33miles a day, 3 days a week and sometimes in bad weather I wish I lived closer. But if you absolutely hate your current job and think this is a...
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    Pulled from floor by "Men in Black"

    NicuGal replied to mikala3's topic in Patient, Colleague Relations

    Never talk to anyone without the hospital legal team
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    Assessing for Neonatal Withdrawal and the Nurse's Role

    NicuGal replied to nicunurse4life's topic in Pediatric

    We would have reported the symptoms to the doc and let them take it from there. Was the NICU nurse assigned to the patient? We don't go over to the nursery to look at babies where I work, that would...
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    Keeping A Written Record Of The Patients You've Had: Good Or Bad?

    NicuGal replied to All4NursingRN's topic in HIPAA Challenges

    Jory, I take you have never been deposed or on a case. I won't say much more than I did before, but it is a whole different world when the lawyers are on you. And a jury may see things much...
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    What would be a good Nursing Diagnosis for my Maternity Care Plan?

    NicuGal replied to Samian Q's topic in Nursing Student Assistance

    You have a macrosomic baby/LGA, they are more prone to hypoglycemia and he had a low glucose. I would use that as my first diagnosis. How is the baby eating/nursing, with large kids, sometimes they...
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    PediaTRICKS- Share your PEDIATRIC TRICKS OF THE TRADE

    NicuGal replied to AnnieOaklyRN's topic in Pediatric

    Wow...my phone did a great job auto correcting! Check out neosuckers for nose suctioning, they are nice and don't cause trauma. You shouldn't use non hospital approved items, if something goes...
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    PediaTRICKS- Share your PEDIATRIC TRICKS OF THE TRADE

    NicuGal replied to AnnieOaklyRN's topic in Pediatric

    If we held a child's nose closed to give Meds, we would be fired. And you should not be using with of those items to suction kids with, the make items specifically for peda use and your hospital...
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    16 year old in the ADN nursing program, now they're asking me to withdraw? :

    NicuGal replied to xAngel's topic in General Students

    At our hospital you have to be 18 to work on the floor and pass meds. Most people may start classes when they are 17, but aren't in clinicals for a year. I would take classes towards your BSN and go...
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    Med documentation

    NicuGal replied to Stoogesfan's topic in Nursing Student Assistance

    We document who it was cleared by if it is outside of our guidelines, but we don't document the rationale, the doctors should be putting that in the
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    Peg Site unable to heal- what to do?!

    NicuGal replied to Lynx25's topic in Wound, Ostomy, Continence

    We had a kiddo like that once...they had to take him back to OR and close the insertion site so it would heal...they had to debride a lot of old tissue out of
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    Charting un-witnessed behavior

    NicuGal replied to Pkirk618's topic in General Nursing

    Be very careful how you word it. Use quotes and names and make sure you chart if you told someone,etc. We had a case at work where the charge nurse on another floor charted what the aide did, but...
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    DNR bracelet with DNR written on it. HIPAA???

    NicuGal replied to FireStarterRN's topic in HIPAA Challenges

    What does your legal department have to say about it? We had to go thru ours and we have preprinted bands that we use that say DNR-CC, etc. We even post them on our isolettes. They said that is the...
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    Working as a nurse and pregnancy

    NicuGal replied to loveishope's topic in General Nursing

    In order to qualify for FMLA you need 1 year employment/1250 hours worked. In most cases, you will be given 6 weeks post delivery for a SVD or 8 weeks for a C/S if you don't qualify for FMLA. As for...
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    LD nurse that never had children or vag birth

    NicuGal replied to loving2's topic in Ob/Gyn

    Hmm..do they ask the guys nurses that lol I had the guys as my nurses with my labors
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    Staffing Ratios for newborns with Neonatal Abstinence Syndrome?

    NicuGal replied to deanpedsrn's topic in Pediatric

    Even in the NICU we usually get 2 other kids with a withdrawl kid. If we are slow we try to only take one other so that we can hold the baby, but that isn't always possible. We use cuddlers when...
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    Question on Lovenox injection aites

    NicuGal posted a topic in PICU, Pediatric

    We send our cardiac kids out for surgeries to a heart center, they used to keep them until discharge, but have recently started sending them back to us. Can we use any other site than their legs for...
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    Question on Lovenox injection aites

    NicuGal replied to NicuGal's topic in PICU, Pediatric

    Thanks!! I will bring up the catheters to our unit manager :) We just started getting these kids back and we were feeling bad about their
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    Care Times

    NicuGal replied to sab7169's topic in NICU, Neonatal

    We use an A B schedule, 8-11-2-5 or 9-12-3-6. We try to stagger the kids in the room. We also have 9-1-5. Our NPO or every 2 hour kids are done hands off care every 2 hours, monitor signs, etc...
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    New to level III

    NicuGal replied to Anursify's topic in NICU, Neonatal

    That should me management , silly auto correct
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    New to level III

    NicuGal replied to Anursify's topic in NICU, Neonatal

    If you are that stressed already then maybe you should go back to level 2. Not everyone is cut out for the higher acuity, ESP if your health is suffering. As for a baby dying, you have to accept...
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    Y's vs. Stopcocks

    NicuGal replied to luvsnicu's topic in NICU, Neonatal

    They can raise the risk of infection if the stopcocks are not changed with the line change, but if we have multiple gtts together, we change them all on the same schedule so that we can prime them all...
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    opioid dependant l&d patients

    NicuGal replied to evolk's topic in Ob/Gyn

    We can't give advice here. I suggest your friend deliver at a hospital that can handle withdrawing a baby from the meds she is on