kimh

Ok so that was easy, not sure what happened other than I was trying to post at work and that may have been the problem. Yes the link you have above is the NWI tool we use. The Finnegan tool seems to encompass more things and babies who are symptomatic score higher sooner and get treatment sooner. There is a certain amount of caution in treating babies pharmacologically (understandably) as our treatment is most often methadone. It's interesting that you do not have the problem with drug abusing moms. What about pregnant women on narcotics for chronic pain? We have many moms who come to us that are on methadone for chronic pain for whatever reason; we have found some of those reasons to be justified and some not. The result is the same---a drug addicted withdrawing baby. The Finnegan scoring tool seems more cumbersome also. The same things are looked at but Finnegan's at different degrees.

Hello, I have tried twice to reply to this thread but have not been able to find it again after posting. I'm thinking it's user error on my part so I am going to post this short reply and then do the more lengthy one when I'm sure it will post!

Hello! I am new to Nicu.org. I have been a neonatal Nurse in Kalamazoo MI for about 11 years. Have just started looking at this site but have seen some interesting info here. I have a question to anyone who would be interested about Neonatal Withdrawl Scoring tools. We currently use NWI tool. However, when a pediatrician follows a baby on our unit, they will request we use the Finnegan tool. Does anyone have any information they would be willing to share or protocols? Any help would be appreciated. Thanks! Kim Holden