Our Level 3 NICU has recently been recieving our post op patients back into our units with epidurals in place for pain management. Because the RNs do not have a protocol for managing the epidural (operating the pump or changing out the medication bags etc), the anesthesiologist changes out the bags and changes the bags. They would like the RNs to take over this responsibilities. Do any other NICUs have any policies, procedures, our guidelines for RNs?
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We are in the process of examining how we staff our NICU, do any of you have a tool that you use to make assignments? I would appreciate any feedback or tools your are willing to share. Thank you-Dana Lunde
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Good afternoon everyone, I am working with an undergraduate student who is trying to compare policies that include parent participation in the NICU
We have no protocoll on our neonatal unit for skin to skin, it is done on an adhoc basis, with different members of staff. I am looking to gather information to put together guidelines for skin to skin for our unit, to include NICU and High Dependency/Special Care Would anyone be willing to share their guidelines and experiences with me
2 Comments - Infants who respond poorly to minimal stimulation (examples: drop in blood pressure, frequent apnea or bradycardia or desaturation in response to stimulation)
Hi! I would like to find out if there is any evidence to support wearing hospital-provided scrubs for NICU staff (i.e., decrease in infection rates)? We are moving toward bringing our own scrubs to work and donning at work. Is that what most NICUs are doing now? Thanks so much for your feedback!
7 Comments - We wear our own scrubs (standard navy blue for all hospital) in the NICU if not assigned C/S...We use disposable gowns if we have to hold the babies
We have recently been utilizing nasal trumpets in the management of pierre robin patients. We had to improvise a system to keep them in place. This requires placing a small hole in the outer tip of the trumpet, and threading umbilical ties through the holes, and then taping the ties in place with tegaderm or use trach ties. We would appreciate any protocol, procedures or guidelines that have been effective for anyone else
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Does someone have a reference where the standard FTE ratio for Lactation consultants in the NICU?
1 Comment - I'm very interested as we too are trying to justify a full time lactation consultant in our NICU
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I am interested in knowing how many of you are screening for PPD in your NICU's? I have been a Neonatal NP for 22 years and a Psych NP for 5 years. The evidience is there to do universal screening (most importanty in NICUs)