>> Kathleen Barcelatto: My
name is Kathleen Barcelatto.
I'm a registered nurse at the
Children's Hospital of Philadelphia.
Every day is always different, but I work
12 hour shifts, so it's a 12 hour day.
It could be hours longer,
but busy at times, not busy.
I just work with babies in the NICU.
You could have just a regular day.
It's you know your regular nursing
things of vitals and caring for the baby,
but especially at CHOP, the Children's
Hospital of Philadelphia it's more important.
They like a-- like a family centered care
so it's very important to like be personable
with the family and you include them
in everything you do with the baby.
So, besides like your regular nursing, things
like vitals and diaper changes and such it's
about including everyone and kind
of working with the whole team.
But then you can have a day where someone's
coding and everything's just going crazy.
So, it can be 7:00 A to 7:00 P or 7:00 P to 7:00
A. So, you clock in five minutes before 7:00.
You go to report.
It takes about a 1/2 hour.
Sometimes it can be longer and then you go
through your safety checks, we call them.
Then you start your day kind of making your list
and being very organized about what you have
to do for the day like meds and care.
Craziest days I've had is when you have
an extremely busy patient which means,
we call them like sick babies where they've
become a one to one, which is a nurse
and one baby because they just need a lot
of care and attention and such like that.
So, when there's a lot of those and there's
not enough nurses, you have no help really.
Like there's always someone to-- if
there's an emergency to try to help you,
but you're constantly running, constantly
getting meds, asking people for help.
You kind of have to run your day
with everybody else being busy
so it's just a whirlwind and
you end the day exhausted.