jimtrish

its a unit for neonates and babies with probs. we ventilate for as long as they need as this is our main role really.
alot of places transfer out if they cannot staff the babies in an intensive situation, so its not unheard of to tx out for that reason. some units will also tx out if the baby is in need of specialist treatment, from oxford or bristol. our unit will transfer out if babe needs ops as we dont operate.
special care baby unit part of the unit deals mainly with babies equivalent to your hdu but the fact they are usually prem adds a few probs, and we have the intensive care part of the unit which deals with vents etc.
ive got 3 kids and thought once i had kids it would be a hard job to do, but to be honest i think it makes me more passionate about what i do, and i feel i can communicate better with the parents and empathise without seeming like im being aloof. i very often shed a few tears, but we all do, you would have to super human and cold hearted not to, but its not all tears and gloom, most babies do really well.

DIMO8

Yeah i know the feeling if shedding a few tears.

You do a great job Trish

lynnlovessun

Damm, I knew I should of deleted that post

I even gave myself a laugh this morning - I though a scuba nurse sounded very Australian

And yes Paul I am blonde although thinking of going back to brunette after this morning

God i'm so embarassed - off to hang my head in shame now!!!

Lynn

lynnlovessun

Oh my god had to right another post as my post level was at a horrible number (i'll leave you to subtract 1) Silly I know!

From lynn the scuba nurse

DIMO8

At least you can laugh at your self......i remember when i first started my nurse training 18 years ago, the Charge Nurse sent me to the Pharmacy for a litre bag of flatus 10 %. imagine how red i was when i returned the ward with everyone pissing themselves ....i can laugh at it now though

lynnlovessun

At least the license arrived. Action stations now Paul!!!!!!!!

Scuba lynn

jimtrish

god i remember those days, i was sent to a&e for a 'long standing! after 1hour of standing like a lemon they told me the joke and sent me back to the ward, i was the colour of a tomato especially when the whole ward were pissing themselves! great when you do it to someone else though

jimtrish

scuba nurse sounds excellent, hey we could start up a whole new style of nursing!

lynnlovessun

I still keep laughing out loud. I thought they treated people with the bends or something

I wanna be one!

You will just have to settle for special babies trish, no scuba casualties!!!!!

Scooooba lynn

lynnlovessun

We sent the porter once to TSSU to collect some falopian tubes!!!!! He cam back with a big riddy!!!!!

Have to say never fallen for any of these ward jokes myself and they did try a few on me - I was brunette then u see!!!

DIMO8

They got me good and proper...must be the Northern humour.

I was also asked to seperate all the linen sheets the long from the short. It took me 3 hours and have a guess all the sheets were the same length

Why dont you ask Paul if you can change your username cos the scuba nurse is stuck with you now....and it sounds good too

ad4ozz

That’s DCI Lynn as in Decompression Illness... .

It was allways go for a long stand our way and everyone thought it was type of drip stand and fell for it.

jimtrish

yep were all agreed...SCUBA LYNN!!

jimtrish

not yet anyway!

lynnlovessun

Not fair

I've never scuba dived in my life!!!!!

I think lynnlovessun will do for now - scuba lynn dosen't really have a ring to it

Lynn