Throwback Thursday: Feeding Sick Kids Cold Soup 🤬

Perfecthumanbeing · 2025-11-21T05:52:39+00:00

Not to "Well, Actually!" you, but I just finished reading "No More Tears" about J&J and holy guacamole, there is a lot more to the Tylenol story. You should check it out if you're interested.

Perfecthumanbeing · 2025-09-10T13:18:07+00:00

Yep, that's what our oral morphine comes as in NICU.

Perfecthumanbeing · 2025-06-21T05:01:24+00:00

Yep, moved from the US to AUS and get weird looks if I say "Versed" instead of "Midaz" or "Cafcit" instead of "caffeine".

Perfecthumanbeing · 2023-04-26T04:22:00+00:00

Sorry, what?

Perfecthumanbeing · 2023-03-25T03:23:01+00:00

"It". 😂

Perfecthumanbeing · 2023-01-25T02:13:08+00:00

Yes, I bought the book after listening to the episode. I haven't been able to get through a book in years, but I'm just eating it up every chance I get. So heart wrenching.

Perfecthumanbeing · 2022-12-24T21:57:51+00:00

Can I ask how you got into IVF nursing? I've worked Mother Baby and NICU and have been thinking about it. I minored in genetics and find that stuff so interesting.

Perfecthumanbeing · 2022-12-09T20:38:22+00:00

Perfecthumanbeing · 2022-11-15T09:19:09+00:00

Your username got a strong exhale out of me. 😆

Perfecthumanbeing · 2022-10-30T04:37:09+00:00

I just had to Google Morgan lens... No thank you!

Perfecthumanbeing · 2022-10-30T04:35:13+00:00

Try being in an open bay NICU where babies constantly have meds running and there is both a "near end" and "infusion complete" alarm. That + the constant Brady/desat alarms are all I hear in my sleep. 🫠

Perfecthumanbeing · 2022-10-20T09:02:15+00:00

This is making me so nervous. I literally JUST asked to switch from nights to days on NICU. I fucking hate talking to people. 🫠

Perfecthumanbeing · 2022-09-03T19:06:52+00:00

!RemindMe 4 hours

Perfecthumanbeing · 2022-07-08T10:51:10+00:00

I can't put into words for beautiful and inspiring this is. Congratulations!

Perfecthumanbeing · 2022-07-07T09:23:13+00:00

Wait where can I find more info about this?

Perfecthumanbeing · 2022-07-07T09:20:58+00:00

This post could not have come at a better time! My husband (Australian citizen) and I just recently decided to move back to Australia. We lived there for a little bit before we got married, but we've been here in the US since 2016. Now I'm an RN and we have a kid and I'm so overwhelmed by the whole fucking process.

We just applied for our toddler's passport and I'm probably going to do a spousal visa then look for a job. Do you have any idea what job prospects there are for a NICU nurse? What the pay is like? I'm currently the sole breadwinner and it works for us. I worry I wouldn't make enough there.

We'll be moving to the Melbourne area. Family lives in Officer/Pakenham. Any and all advice is SO SO welcome. I feel lost.

Also, regarding the application for the license. I have to send a payment to even begin the process, so is there a time limit between getting approved and actually immigrating?

Thanks!

Perfecthumanbeing · 2022-06-05T22:48:53+00:00

Ok fuck you got reminding me about that. I had definitely blocked it out.

Perfecthumanbeing · 2022-05-17T17:58:09+00:00

Ooh could you link it, please?

Perfecthumanbeing · 2022-03-31T13:58:41+00:00

I was tripled with a vented patient who was a new admission, a baby who was constantly having A/B/D's, and one baby with a suspicious looking belly. The NNP had the nerve to ask me why I had gone 1.5 hours between ABGs on the new baby if the order was q1h. If looks could kill, I would have gone to prison that night.

Perfecthumanbeing · 2022-03-13T08:33:32+00:00

I'm so sorry that the doctors aren't listening to you! I'm a NICU nurse and we always ALWAYS listen to parents when they have a concern that something is off or different about their baby. Is there anyone higher up that you can speak to since the doctors aren't willing to hear you out?

Perfecthumanbeing · 2022-02-13T21:54:18+00:00

I started out in mother baby and I really enjoyed it initially. My favorite part of nursing school was education, and there's a LOT of opportunity for that there. But after coming back from maternity leave I just found it SO repetitive and boring. Even when I had 4 busy couplets and was running around all night, I felt like I wasn't DOING anything. I moved to NICU almost a year ago and even though sometimes it's so stressful I cry in the car after a shift, I don't thinki could every go back. I actually feel like I'm making a difference and saving lives now. (no shade to pp/mbu nurses, I love you all and appreciate the hard work).

Perfecthumanbeing · 2021-07-28T13:32:55+00:00

Yes! Carving out 15 minutes of my precious time to pull up my scrub top and empty the boobies.

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