RE: stable neonate transports

[Mauseth Patrice <Patrice.Mauseth@HCAHealthcare.com>]

Our state laws require the team composition to include a neonatal RN.  Our
team feels that regardless of what the law reads, we would send the RN
anyway.  Neonates  can go downhill very quickly.  Their care is a specialty.
An RN would be the minimum we would send.

> -----Original Message-----
> From:	sdeboer@uchospitals.edu [SMTP:sdeboer@uchospitals.edu]
> Sent:	Friday, March 29, 2002 9:06 PM
> To:	nicu-net@u.washington.edu; flightmed@flightweb.com
> Cc:	dzeglin@uchospitals.edu
> Subject:	stable neonate transports
> 
>      Greetings - Our medical center based team is utilized for all
> critical 
>      care transports into our house (neonatal/pediatric/adult) & we 
>      commonly only have one crew on duty per shift - with this staffing 
>      pattern, we can miss flights because we are transporting a "perfectly
> 
>      stable" newborn - as we routinely triage peds & adult patients as to 
>      appropriate crew configuration (full transport team vs. specialty 
>      medics alone), we feel that our specialty trained paramedics could 
>      very appropriately transport these babies as well without having an
> RN 
>      present - I am looking to see what other facilities require in
> regards 
>      to crew configuration for stable neonates (i.e. hyperbili, coming for
> 
>      a neuro/ortho eval,etc) - i.e. is a transport nurse always needed for
> 
>      babies & why?
>      Thanx for your input
>      Scott DeBoer RN,MSN
>      Flight Nurse Educator : UCAN
>      University of Chicago Hospitals
>      Chicago, IL USA
> 
> 
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