Day 168 - Won't You Be My Neighbor?
Wednesday, June 16th, 2021 NICU Neighborhoods 🏘️ Each RN has 2 babies on the 2nd floor of the NICU. The rooms are separated in groups of 4, which are called neighborhoods. These neighborhoods are color coded. We are currently in Blue. So 2 RNs and 1 RT usually oversee the whole neighborhood. When your RN is busy with another baby or goes on break, the "buddy nurse" in your neighborhood is there to help. Alarms & Monitors 🚨 Each room has a monitor where the RN can also pull up their other baby's stats side by side. This should be coming up but a lot of time does not work. When a baby is bradying this sends an alarm to their phones to notify them that the baby's heart rate is dropping below the threshold. Unfortunately their phones do not alarm when a baby desats (oxygen is dropping). There isn't even a threshold where it would ever go off. Unless an RN is staring at their monitor, no one is alerted. The Problem 🙋🏻♀️ James no longer bradys when he has BPD ...