Neonatal intensive care unit

first floated to the intensive care unit (ICU). I could see the respect others had for her judgment. Ms. King was a prodigy, a woman of great knowledge. I valued her input and guidance. Ms. King is one of the day shift charge nurses on one of the four ICUs at St. Joseph’s Hospital in Tampa. Specifically, she works in the medical ICU. Ms. King began her career in 1987 working as a home health nurse and starting her career in the ICU. Ms. King’s nursing career includes neonatal, pediatric and…

To determine eligibility infants had to weigh less than 1500 grams. They were found ineligible if they were diagnosed with chromosome or cognitive abnormalities. Infants were selected from 4 NICU’s (Neonatal Intensive Care Units) in Ontario Canada. 363 Infants were randomly sorted by a computer into 2 groups that was composed of 181 infants to donor milk and 182 infants to preterm formula. The families and members of the research and clinical team as well as the…

being reported in hospitals around the country (Seagraves, Brulte, McNeely, & Pritham, 2013). Hyperbilirubinemia is the most common reason for hospital readmission of term and late preterm newborns, and remains a concern for both families and health care providers (Seagraves, Brulte, McNeely, & Pritham, 2013). Nearly 60 percent of all newborns become jaundiced, and those with feeding difficulties are among the population…

Though it has a history stretching back thousands of years, the discussion on what causes happiness has not subsided, but increased. Throughout the next few paragraphs, this essay will discuss to what extent the factors: social class, money, social relationships, and attitude, affect happiness. This essay will begin by discussing how a person’s financial status contributes to their happiness. Next, it will discuss the affect that an individual’s social class has on their happiness through…

Dawson, Greiner, &… Williamson, 2015, p. 3). In order to increase patient safety, many hospital units are implementing change based on the latest evidence based practice (EBP). It therefore becomes important to replace our “sacred cows” with practices that is supported by EBP. This journal entry will illustrate such a change involving the handling of expressed breast milk in the Neonatal Intensive Care Unit (NICU), where I work, using Lewin’s change theory of unfreezing, movement, and…

mother’s drug use impacted on the mezzo level with the intervention of the medical community in treating her and at the macro level by performing tests which were created from research studies and policies and legal obligations in informing the Child Care Board of the situation. Theories for assessment for the individual/family include Systems theory, for the mezzo level Human Behaviour Theory and Systems Theory at the Macro level. Diversity is addressed with specificity to age/developmental…

represent changes in oxygenation of Hb. \cite{Ferrari:2004uc}\\ 6. NIRO-NX 200 uses multichannel measurements to reduce regional variations in skeletal muscle oxygenation. This is pertinent, especially for the serial measures of TOI in the intensive care unit patients. Despite the possibility of probe placement at different sites, I have demonstrated reproducible and comparable TOI values.\\ 7. The vascular occlusion test (VOT) acts as an internal calibration within each patient. This is because…

Health care organizations must effectively position themselves alongside their competitors to gain a strong strategic edge over the market. Service area competitor analysis is necessary to determine the geographical setting of the service area, obtain an understanding of the competitors within the service area, identify the competitor’s vulnerabilities, assess the impact of the health care organization’s own strategic actions against specific competitors, and identify some possible moves that a…

The use of neonatal intensive care units (NICU) plays a major role in this process and has proven over and over that it is indispensable in the care for ill newborns. (Apisarn) The NICU employs various tools to keep the caring staff updated with real time conditions. The most important of these tools may be the oxygen hood because…

one pound and seven ounces. At first they believed that Lola was stillborn, but in another twenty seconds she began breathing. The EMTs put Lola on a ventilator and rushed her to Woodhull Medical Center where doctors and nurses quickly began taking care of her. Marcie Haley stated “I think the biggest thing with prematurity is that it doesn’t just end…and you walk out, and these babies that are lucky enough to survive have upward battles of developmental delays, vision problems, feeding problems…