Nurse Kelly’s Notes

Nurse Kelly’s Notes Hi! I’m Nurse Kelly and I hope you grow to love NICU and perinatal nursing as much as I do!

03/12/2026

The conditions and physiology seen in babies in the NICU can be challenging to grasp - let Nurse Kelly’s Notes resources make the world of neonatal intensive care easier to understand! Curated with the learning needs of visual learners in mind, the Neonatal Intensive Care Nursing Bundle includes over 170 pages of visual education, evidence-based interventions and rationales, memory tricks, knowledge checks, AND case studies to facilitate retention AND comprehension related to the care of critically ill newborns, including hypoxic-ischemic encephalopathy.

This is your full-time NICU nurse, wife and mom of 2, and owner of Nurse Kelly’s Notes! As a one woman show, I wear a lo...
03/11/2026

This is your full-time NICU nurse, wife and mom of 2, and owner of Nurse Kelly’s Notes! As a one woman show, I wear a lot of different hats and enjoy it so much!

(Yes, that’s me with a bottle of J&B Scotch Whisky. I didn’t drink it then, and I actually don’t drink alcohol now! For some reason I loved that bottle, would find wherever my parents hid it, and would drag it around the house and sing into it like it was a microphone 🫣).

03/07/2026

Tell me if you’ve experienced this, too - has anybody in your hospital guessed that you work in the NICU because of how cheerful you are? It happened to me recently and I want to know if it’s happened to you, too! I love being a NICU nurse, in spite of all of its challenges and the sadness that we experience!

03/04/2026

Time for another NICU math quiz! Drop your guess for the hourly rate in the comments! The right answer (with an explanation) will be posted tomorrow!

02/11/2026

Let’s review MILRINONE!

✨ Milrinone is used in the NICU in babies with: Heart failure, post-cardiac surgery in the setting of decreased cardiac output, and pulmonary hypertension (including in the setting of congenital diaphragmatic hernia)
⭐️ Milrinone ↑ myocardial contractility and ↓ afterload by ↑ cAMP through phosphodiesterase III inhibition.
🛑 Milrinone is contraindicated in renal failure, or patients with history of ventricular arrhythmia.

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02/03/2026

Let’s review total fluid calculations together!

Share what you think is the right answer in the comments! The correct response will be pinned tomorrow!

02/02/2026

Even the ones who basically self-nominate do this 🤣

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