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Showing 1 to 20 of 62 for “"Neonatal Intensive Care Unit (NICU)"”.
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Parents' views of their own needs during their newborns' stay on the Neonatal Intensive Care Unit (NICU)
… own needs during their newborns' stay on the Neonatal Intensive Care Unit (NICU). A descriptive, small scale explorative design, incorporating a mixture of qualitative and quantitative approaches was adopted. The study involved a convenience sample of thirteen participants (5 couples and 3 …
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Improving Exclusive Breastfeeding Rates by Reducing Transfers to the Neonatal Intensive Care Unit (NICU) Using a Glucose Gel Protocol
… exclusive breastfeeding rates at a local, acute-care Southern California hospital, the CNL worked with the department of Women’s Services to implement a revised neonatal hypoglycemia protocol with the introduction of glucose gel. Using educational sessions, nursing staff from the postpartum and …
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STDMn+p0: a multidimensional patient oriented data mining framework for critical care research
In the neonatal intensive care unit (NICU) environment, critical care and treatment directly correlate to the multidimensional development of an infant and are influenced by attributes such as gender and gestational age (GA). Recent literature on guidelines developed for neonatal intensive care; do …
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Breating the Wave: An Educational for NICU Nurses
… knowledge and attitudes of nurses in a Neonatal Intensive Care Unit (NICU) were assessed and the effects of an educational intervention were evaluated. The educational program was presented to NICU and Pediatric/NICU nurses in a 9 bed Level IINICU. This program consisted of a …
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An evaluation method for the evaluation of big data based streaming analytic clinical decision support systems
… at the McMaster Children’s Hospital (MCH) Neonatal Intensive Care Unit (NICU). NICUs, have specific requirements relating to the use of clinical data and the implementation of new IT infrastructure. These requirements predicate the need for informative documentation that describes the …
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Implementation strategies used to reduce Unplanned Extubations (UPE) in the Neonatal Intensive Care Unit at The Hospital for Sick Children (SickKids)
… January 1, 2007 and December 31, 2019 in the neonatal intensive care unit (NICU) at the Hospital for Sick Children (SickKids) in Toronto, Canada. Six major implementation strategies decreased UPEs per 100 ventilator days from 2.38 to 0.45 between 2003 and 2019. The study sample included 302 …
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A flexible, longitudinal and surrogate consent model: Consent of Infants for Neonatal Secondary-use research (CoINS) Model
Documenting healthcare, along with technology enabling capture of streaming patient telemetry, can deliver large datasets offering opportunities to discover new insights primarily identified through retrospective secondary use research. Research involving health data requires consent of the subject …
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Impact of a NICU Bedside Reading Initiative on Self-Reported Maternal Stress and Mother-Infant Attachment
… birth and a corresponding hospitalization in the Neonatal Intensive Care Unit (NICU) presents infants and their families with an array of medical and psychosocial stressors that have the potential to impact neurodevelopment and social-emotional functioning in both the long-and short-term. Research …
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Beyond the Loss of a Child in the NICU: The Social Worker's Role
… exploring the role of social workers in the Neonatal Intensive Care Unit (NICU). The classical and contemporary perspectives of grief theory provide the framework for understanding emotional responses of bereaved parents to the death of a child. The academic social work, medical, and nursing …
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Reducing CLABSI in the NICU with IV Tubing Competency
… (CLABSI) is a significant problem in a Level IV neonatal intensive care unit (NICU) on the West Coast of California. A clinical nurse leader (CNL) student joined a team consisting of the unit’s nursing manager, nursing educator, clinical nurse specialist (CNS), and CNS student. Literature review …
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Prospectus Summary Brief: NICU Communication Improvement
<p>Joy Lawley RNC, NICU Communication Improvement: A prospectus summary brief. Effective communication in the neonatal intensive care unit (NICU) not only reduces errors and adverse patient outcomes but also create an environment that promotes staff satisfaction. The purpose of this prospectus is …
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Virulence potential of enterobacteriaceae isolated from neonatal enternal feeding tubes
… years, there has been a rise in the incidence of neonatal infections due to Enterobacteriaceae including Escherichia coli, Enterobacter, Klebsiella and Serratia spp. These are major causative agents in neonatal intensive care unit (NICU) infections. Neonates, especially those born with low birth …
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Increasing CLABSI Bundle Compliance in the NICU
<p>Central lines are frequently used in the neonatal intensive care unit (NICU) for the administration of medications and total parenteral nutrition (TPN). Central line-associated blood stream infections (CLABSIs) have the potential to cause harm in the vulnerable neonate. Current evidence shows …
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The information and support needs of primary caregivers of premature and/or medically complex infants upon discharge from the neonatal intensive care unit.
… To determine the perceptions of primary caregivers of premature and/or medically complex infants regarding information received prior to discharge from hospital and information and support needs four weeks after discharge from a Neonatal Intensive Care Unit (NICU). Design. …
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Reducing IV Infiltrates in the Neonatal Population
… of the CNL project is to improve the quality of care provided to our patients. The project focuses efforts to reduce IV infiltrates by auditing all running IV lines, IV management monitoring and auditing infiltrate grading and documentation to find commonalities that could be causing …
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Clients' Expectations of Public Health Nurses' Home Visits
… between client expectations and outcomes of care in acute care settings, less is known about clients' expectations for public health nurses' home visits. The aim of this study was to understand clients' expectations of public health nurses' home visits as a first step in making explicit how …
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Neonatal enteral feeding tube as loci for Enterobacteriaceae colonisation and risk to neonatal health
The incidence of neonatal infections caused by Enterobacteriaceae has been increasing in recent years, and they are now recognised as the predominant causative agents in neonatal intensive care unit (NICU) outbreaks. Klebsiella spp. and Serratia spp. are the most common causative pathogens, and E. …
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Maximizing Impact: A Grounded Theory Study of Primary Nursing Relationships in the Neonatal Intensive Care Unit
Primary care nursing (PCN) is a common nursing care delivery system within the neonatal intensive care unit (NICU). Some studies of the effects of this form of care delivery have demonstrated positive effects for patients, families, nurses, and healthcare facilities but some reported concerning …
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Using trauma as a lens to explore the experience of mothering a very premature infant in the first year after hospital discharge
… ‘The isolation of limbo’; ‘Attachment to the NICU’; ‘Feeling like a mother came later’; ‘Bonding in the shadow of the threat of loss’; ‘Mourning an intangible loss’ and ‘Mothering in the wake of trauma’. These themes capture how the trauma of the very premature birth and the experience of the …
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Investigating Cerebral Function in Neonates Using Diffuse Optical Tomography
… for neonates and subsequently apply this in neonatal studies of cerebral function. Firstly, the DOT headgear was applied to healthy neonates to investigate the early stages of vocal specialisation. In this functional activation study, the cerebral haemodynamic changes observed in response to …
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