by Julie Kaderabek | Aug 22, 2018 | Family/Parenting, Hospital/Surgery, Nursing, Nursing, Surgery Day
Ear Tube Surgery A couple weeks ago I wrote a blog about common pediatric surgeries. Since then I have gotten a lot of questions about these surgeries, including why a child would have to have them and what they entail. I decided to answer these questions about one...
by Julie Kaderabek | Aug 2, 2018 | Nursing
Do you know what the top three inpatient and outpatient pediatric surgeries performed across the United States are? I get asked all the time, “What type of surgeries do you see most?” Where I work, we do over 8,000 surgical cases a year, inpatient + outpatient. We...
by Julie Kaderabek | Jul 19, 2018 | Family/Parenting, Hospital/Surgery, list, Nursing, Surgery Day
There are a lot of questions you might be asked after your child’s surgery. We want to share 6 common questions asked during a post-operative call. Ok, so I know the 2RNs are pre-operative and recovery room nurses, but in these roles we also have contact with...
by Julie Kaderabek | Jul 12, 2018 | Family/Parenting, gratitude, Life Experience, list, Mother, Nursing
I recently read a Facebook post which was a list of life lessons learned. The post was shared by multiple friends and family members. It has over 489,000 views. We’ve all seen posts like this one where someone writes a list of things you should be thankful...
by Julie Kaderabek | Jun 13, 2018 | Family/Parenting, gratitude, Hospital/Surgery, Nursing, Nursing
I used to think if I wasn’t a pediatric nurse I would want to be a child life specialist. When I was in nursing school I would watch them as they worked and it looked like so much fun. They were coloring with kids, playing games, and distracting them with...
