👶🏻 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...

⏺ It’s ok to not land in your dream unit right out of nursing school. ⠀ ⠀ ⏺ It’s ok to not want to go back to school. ⠀ ⠀ ⏺ It’s ok to...

🙌🏼 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...

😔 I graduated nursing school and moved to a city I had no clue about, didn’t know a single soul, and left my entire family behind. I was...

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

🤭 Don’t be fooled by this smile. As much as I love my job so much, there can be rough days. It can be a lot of pressure knowing that...

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...

🥴 So I will admit, there will be days where patience gets tested when it comes to working with patients and families. Being in...

➡️ 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...

😥 So I’ve been very open with you guys about my journey as a nurse and all the struggles it took me to get to where I am now. ⠀⠀ ⠀⠀ 😔 4...

😰 It’s honestly scary putting yourself out there sometimes due to fear of criticism. I thought really hard about whether or not to...

👚 My favorite scrubs are @wearfigs . I have a video where I try them on and give my first impressions on my channel if you haven’t...

😞 I will say that I was definitely not the smartest student and didn’t get straight As in nursing school. ⠀ ⠀ 😰 While trying to balance...