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?
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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. She is an undergraduate working towards an Honors Thesis
I am interested in knowing how many of you are screening for PPD in your NICU's?...The evidience is there to do universal screening (most importanty in NICUs). If you are screening what is your referral process?
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 bring in our own laundered scrubs from home
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Hello everyone, Just wondering if you accept newborn from the pediatric unit? If so, what are your criteria for admissions? Up to what age will you accept? Do you have any guidlines/policies that you can share? Thank you kindly, Annie aduchemin@yorkcentral.on.ca
1 Comment - They are usually newborns that were sent there for post op care after heart surgery or ECMO. The criteria have been worked out with the physicians
We have had an issue with the bifurcated feeding side port collecting over time with formula or breast milk even with judicial flushing after access. We are proposing to go to a non bifurcated tube and have the bifurcation on the extension tubing, yet some staff are preferring to stay with the...
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
We have a policy to wear gloves for a specific population in the NICU (<1250gm or/& < 30wks), all IV care (peripheral or central) & any body fluid contact. There is a push to wear gloves all the time for all patients with any contact, the only skin to skin touch will be with the parent when they visit. Living in an evidence based world, I need supportive evidence for this argument
1 Comment - Amy, We glove between all patients in our Level III NICU
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