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Showing 1 to 5 of 5 for “"newborn intensive care unit"”.
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Facilitation of parenting within the newborn intensive care unit
The major challenge facing neonatal health care providers today is to combine the necessary technological intensive care for preterm infants with a sensitive and individualized approach to facilitate neurobehavioral development while acknowledging and supporting parents of these infants in their …
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Assessing the Effect of a Learning Organization on Change in Levels of Developmentally Supportive Care in the Newborn Intensive Care Unit
… of developmentally supportive, family-centered care (DSC). The intervention occurred in the Newborn Intensive Care Unit (NICU) at Magee-Womens Hospital, Pittsburgh, PA. Clinical nurse leaders (N = 9) were encouraged to model research-based, developmentally supportive techniques. The "Checklist …
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Stress and coping of parents of hospitalized premature infants
… birthweight, premature infant hospitalized in a newborn intensive care unit (NICU). From this list of stressors, parents chose the most stressful, rated the extent to which they felt they had control, reported what they did to cope, and completed the Ways of Coping Questionnaire (Folkman & …
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The effects of nonnutritive sucking on state regulation in preterm infants
… Systematic observations of this effect in newborn infants have revealed that NNS reduces arousal in general. Among preterm infants NNS has been used as an effective intervention in the newborn intensive care unit. However, there has been little systematic research on the immediate …
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Evaluation of an Early Discharge Policy For Infants With Apnea of Prematurity
… Virginia Commonwealth University Medical Center Newborn Intensive Care Unit (VCUNC NICU) with caffeine therapy and a cardiorespiratory monitor. This practice policy was developed over a decade ago as a cost containment measure in neonatal care and continues to be implemented today despite the …