⠀ 🤗 So its officially been 5 years since I graduated nursing school and almost 5 years since working as a nurse. And let me tell you,...

🍼 Like us, babies have to eat also! But why do we use G tubes? For some babies out there that are struggling to bottle feed, sometimes...

👶🏻 Prepping For An Admission in the NICU 🏥⠀ ⠀ Things to prep: ⠀ ➡️ Preheated isolette bed or warming table⠀ ➡️ Temperature probe ⠀ ➡️...

❓Why are eye exams necessary? ⠀ ⠀ Premature babies are at risk for Retinopathy of Prematurity (ROP) where it can cause abnormal...

🙌🏼 Advocate - We represent a patient population that cannot voice their pain. We truly need to be the eyes and ears for our patients...

Supplies needed include: ⠀ 1️⃣ Heel warmer ⠀ 2️⃣Alcohol wipe and bandaid ⠀ 3️⃣ Heel Poker⠀ 4️⃣ Microtainers ⠀ ⠀ Comfort measures...

🤔 What types of central lines do we use in the NICU? The most common are Peripherally Inserted Central Catheters (PICC), Umbilical...

1️⃣ How did you get to this point in your career? What is the path you took?⠀ ⠀ After I graduated high school, I did 4 years at a...

🩺 Assess your patient and the need for increased respiratory support. Assess your airway and make sure it’s appropriate to intubate and...

➡️ Aside from blood pressure cuff monitoring we can also monitor patient’s blood pressures through an arterial umbilical line (UAC) which...

📩 So I’ve been getting tons of messages and comments from you guys asking if it’s possible to land a NICU position without any NICU...

💪🏻 Babies are definitely more resilient than you think. I remember holding the smallest baby in my hands for the very first time. A 550...

👶 Always assess and check infant cues. If the baby is putting their hands to the face and rooting, then most likely the baby is hungry....

🏥 NICU stands for Neonatal Intensive Care Unit. It is a unit dedicated to taking care of premature infants as young as 23 weeks (viable...

👶🏻 NICU is a huge passion of mine and I was lucky enough to get the opportunity to do my senior preceptorship in the NICU in nursing...

😊 As a 4 year NICU nurse, I am considering my options to advance further into my career. Here are a list of advancement options for...

➡️Did I ever have an intention of doing NICU? I will honestly say that I didn’t even know that NICU even existed. I did not know that...

🤔 So I’ve been getting a lot of DMs from you guys that are brand new NICU nurses about to start your NICU journey, and asking what you...

🤔 So I’ve been getting a lot of questions from you guys about whether or not you can be a NICU nurse coming from a different work...

❓ The question I get asked often is how long it took me to get comfortable in my job being a NICU nurse. ⠀ ⠀ 🙈 And truthfully, I don’t...