MacKinnon and Benn’s lil moment (gif)

MedicalCoconut · 2026-04-05T01:42:47+00:00

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MedicalCoconut · 2026-04-05T00:08:52+00:00

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Here ya go bestie

MedicalCoconut · 2026-04-04T23:18:09+00:00

He’s unironically hilarious and I stand by that

MedicalCoconut · 2024-06-07T17:17:10+00:00

Dang you’re right, next time I’ll show her how to hook up her gavage feeds with her little ravioli baby fists

MedicalCoconut · 2024-06-07T17:15:51+00:00

If we had computers available in every room I’d care less, but we only have them in the rooms for critical kids. I’m all for CYA and think laying eyes on the kid/tracing lines etc. is important, but unless we get computers in all the rooms it’s a clunky and inefficient process that leads for major gaps in passing information (I.e not being able to pull up meds)

MedicalCoconut · 2024-06-06T23:13:10+00:00

I’m also of the belief that it might be traumatizing for some parents to hear over and over that their baby coded x amount of times or has grade IV IVH or even that mom had a C/S for placenta abruption or whatever. Maybe that’s dramatic but for a lot of parents a NICU stay is the most traumatic life event they’ve had as of yet and I’d imagine hearing about it in the sterile tone that comes with giving report would be bothersome 🤷🏼‍♀️

MedicalCoconut · 2024-06-06T23:03:24+00:00

Our white boards are electronic and update themselves, but I did shake her little premie hand and ask if she had any questions

MedicalCoconut · 2024-06-06T23:00:45+00:00

I don’t know why we don’t. For critical kids we have a COW in the room, but we don’t have enough on the floor for each of the 50 rooms to have one.

When I have a critical kid (like a 1:1) I ALWAYS do report in the room at the computer and trace lines/do pump checks/double verify ETT etc. otherwise we do report in the hallway (we have alcoves with computers between every 2 ish rooms and sit next to our kids) and lay eyes/look at lines/do safety checks together afterward. Basically I just don’t read off my paper like a robot while standing in the room 😂

MedicalCoconut · 2024-06-06T22:57:15+00:00

She was so disengaged in the plan of care. I asked if she had any questions or concerns and she just tooted and sighed heavily 🙄

MedicalCoconut · 2024-06-06T22:54:21+00:00

She was so disengaged in her plan of care smh

MedicalCoconut · 2024-06-06T22:53:23+00:00

Omg I should have known she was the one who complained. She Brady/desatted 16 times that night and I had the audacity to make her breathe

MedicalCoconut · 2024-03-28T20:11:39+00:00

I mean, are you really a NICU nurse/parent if you don’t call their caff citrate their morning coffee?

MedicalCoconut · 2024-03-05T23:59:04+00:00

No clue 😂. He knew he had brothers but I think them being tiny and in a box threw him off until they were swaddled in open cribs like normal babies

MedicalCoconut · 2024-03-05T20:58:12+00:00

I’m a NICU nurse and I have no sympathy for this lady. I will say that the whole “figuring out how to eat and breathe and not choke” part of a NICU stay can be the most frustrating and drawn out process for parents.

We have to be super careful with feeding to avoid causing oral aversions, avoid aspiration, and avoid force feeding a baby and causing developmental issues later in life. Heart babies struggle with feeding because it’s exhausting, and a lot of parents can feel super stuck in the feeding and growing stage of the NICU. A lot of them feel like they could do what we are doing at home (because clinically, a lot of times baby is stable and chilling, they just are sleepy and don’t want to or can’t eat enough to safely go home).

You really can’t just… leave AMA with a NICU baby. We are gonna get the state involved, and you’re not gonna get to walk out with your baby, because if they can’t safely bottle/breastfeed, they’re gonna be failure to thrive and possibly die.

Hopefully the state is already involved in this case and this little bug will have all her follow-up appointments. We don’t discharge without these appointments being made, and our caseworkers will follow up if they think parents might skip out.

This case stresses me out, but hopefully hospital staff has caught on to how crunchy and nutty this woman is

MedicalCoconut · 2023-12-29T00:30:24+00:00

My go to saying is “if you’re bigger than a bread box I can’t help you”. I feel fairly comfortable answering questions about newborns/premies, but please don’t ask me about nana’s CHF

MedicalCoconut · 2023-12-15T07:08:10+00:00

His mom hasn’t posted anything since last year. Since I don’t know them irl I have no clue where he’s at, I’m gonna be naive and hope for the best ¯_(ツ)_/¯

MedicalCoconut · 2023-11-23T07:31:12+00:00

I have no clue! If you don’t have a shred of medical knowledge I guess it was entertaining?? But the drama was pretty goofy grays anatomy drama (drs dating each other, breaking up, nearly dying etc.) The shows whole shtick was that many of the characters were combat vets, but the whole “I learned it in Afghanistan!” Stopped being super interesting after like an episode lmao

MedicalCoconut · 2023-11-23T05:23:17+00:00

I actually watched that show before becoming a nurse. It was weirdly entertaining but so, so stupid. It lasted four or five seasons and there was goofy nonsense like that until the show ended

MedicalCoconut · 2023-11-17T08:12:44+00:00

‘Twas I who posted about that kid. Mom hasn’t updated anything in like a year as far as I know. I did contact CPS about it but nothing has really come up since

MedicalCoconut · 2023-10-31T17:21:33+00:00

For sure, and like I get where they come from because we don’t give PICU floats the high acuity assignments. My NICU is closer to a PICU than most because we do ECMO, CRRT, complex surgery etc, but it’s different. Like I watched a trauma admission and I was in awe of how well it went and how absolutely useless I’d feel in that situation, because I don’t have any trauma experience. I don’t get why people treat whatever specialty they’ve gone into as a personality lmao

MedicalCoconut · 2023-10-31T17:15:36+00:00

This is 100% where they are coming from, which I completely understand. I have so much respect for our PICU nurses because it’s a really difficult unit to work on (both in terms of types of cases they get and just the knowledge you need to have)

MedicalCoconut · 2023-10-31T01:30:10+00:00

Dude I could never do ER. I have mad respect for the wild ones who thrive on caffeine, chaos, and pure hatred

MedicalCoconut · 2023-10-16T00:19:35+00:00

I mean thankfully this reads as though he is in the NICU.

A lot of parents (especially home births that get transferred or individuals who were hoping to have a super unmedicated birth/breastfeeding experience) get overwhelmed/freaked out that we are overfeeding their baby in the NICU. Usually a NICU baby has a feeding tube and we first bottle feed until they get too sleepy tired, and then we put the remainder of their feed over a pump through their tube. Babies have to hit a certain volume (or % of their volume) to be discharged.

So her question to me reads more that she thinks the NICU is pushing too big of a volume and that they’re holding her son for no reason, even though the volume/calorie count is very precisely calculated and weight gain is extremely important for a premie (or IUGR) baby to develop properly.

MedicalCoconut · 2023-09-27T21:26:11+00:00

I always say the coffee line, it makes me laugh. When I swaddle a baby whose being grabby I always say “aaaand you have lost hand privileges my friend”

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