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• Neonatal Nurse Puts Preemie in Her Pocket and Takes Pictures

  A nurse on the neonatal unit of an Israeli hospital is facing disciplinary action after photos of her holding a premature infant girl in her pocket landed in the hands of hospital adminstration. The hospital's director general has her back, saying the photos were taken as part of a presentation to be shown to parents of preemies. Read More... Posted Nov 12 2008, 12:57 PM by JeanneSager with | with 10 comment(s) Filed under: babies, preemie, nurses, baby care, Jeanne Sager, premature, neonatal unit, kangaroo

• Clean Hands: Purell Ain't Getting It Done

  We had a nice but icky discussion last week about how healthcare professionals weren't exactly scrupulous when it comes to washing their hands between patients (and door touching, etc.) and that patients are being encouraged to ask them to wash up. And there was some talk of hidden hand santizer pumps that they might be using outside the patient's room, which made a few of us (and by "us" I mean "me") feel better and like they could go on living in denial about their doctor's dirty hands.  Well, a study out of Nebraska got down and dirty and concluded that Purell ... Read More... Posted Jan 30 2008, 02:38 PM by Madeline Holler with | with 2 comment(s) Filed under: research study, hospitals, doctor visits, health care, hospital, hand sanitizer, health risks, health news, nurses, medical issues, do the right thing, health and well-being of children, health and well-being of parents, illness, health and safety, hygiene, doctors, hand-washing, purell

• You Can Ask? Really?

  Have I mentioned I'm not terribly assertive with medical professionals? Well, I'm not. I've got a milllllion opinions and demands and I'm more than willing to share them, just not with the actual nurse or doctor. I just hate the double-takes, exasperation and sometimes mild offense of a reaction I get those times I have womaned-up and asked a question and/or made a request. So I am at once in awe/totally tense reading about these people, who have the nerve to ask doctors and nurses to do something they should have had the professional sense to already have done:   Read More... Posted Jan 25 2008, 06:31 PM by Madeline Holler with | with 14 comment(s) Filed under: hospitals, doctor visits, health care, hospital, health risks, health news, nurses, do the right thing, health and well-being of children, health and well-being of parents, illness, health and safety, hygiene, doctors

• Strollerderby Playdate: True Tales of a Labor Nurse

  I have a  major thing for nurses. Oh, for the love…not like that, you sick bastards. Nurses go back three generations in my family. Through infertility treatment and one completed pregnancy and one almost-completed one, it was always the nurses that got me through. I think that's the case for most women who've given birth; like 'em or hate 'em, there is always a Nurse Plotline as part of the birth story. To the nurses, it’s the other way around – for every Nurse Plot there have to be a hundred Crazy-Ass Patient stories (actually, my sister-in-law was a labor and delivery nurse for awhile and I can guarantee that firsthand). Read More... Posted Jan 18 2008, 11:02 AM by Amy Kuras with | with 1 comment(s) Filed under: nurses, playdate, Rebirth Nurse, L&D

• Trading Spaces: Nurses Try "Preemie For a Day"

  Ever wonder what it's like to be a tiny, vulnerable newborn?  Some nurses in Illinois are finding out with an innovative new program that allows them to experience some of the abrupt changes that take place for the tiniest babies in the moments after their birth. The nurses are learning to better simulate the soothing world of the womb for preemies in the days following their birth so that they can weather the transition from a warm and relatively quiet uterus to the bustling world of the NICU.  Nurses drink from bottles and suck on pacifiers after having lain in a fetal position to simulate some of the sensory input a preemie experiences.  (I am wondering if there aren't some nutjobs out there who would pay serious money to see this?) This sounds like a good attempt and is probably the best we can really do to simulate a baby's experience but I have to wonder if it is even possible to remotely understand everything that's going on within a tiny baby during those days. Posted Mar 01 2007, 06:17 PM by Karen Murphy with | with 1 comment(s) Filed under: birth, hospitals, babies, NICU, preemies, nurses