I have a Littman stethoscope and my colleagues said it's working fine after they tested it. But for me, it's just hard for me to identify murmurs.
I work in NICU, so nearly all premature babies have a murmur. This makes it difficult for me to distinguish what's normal from what's not. Also babies squirm so much that it creates a lot of static noise which blocks heart sounds for me. I've tried swaddling babies and giving them sucrose, so they wouldn't move so much. Still not helpful. Sometimes I've mistook lung sounds for murmurs.
I am struggling a big time because I don't want to be seen as an incompetent nurse. I've been working in NICU for a year now.
By - Gracilis67
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