Neonatal intensive care unit

With all of the advances that have been made in respiratory care, it leaves us with a number of different therapies and equipment available to suit the needs of patients from any age, disease, and demographic. Though these different options are accessible to most acute care hospitals, there is not enough education being done for the proper implementation of these resources or protocols to help drive them. In terms of neonatal non-invasive ventilation, there are several methods of helping…

to obtain the literature in this review. The literature review will present the history of patient transport, with a focus on the adverse effects suffered by patients. It will then present the need for specialty trained staff to undertake critical care transportation. Finally it will present how the role of nursing can be expanded in order to develop nurse-led IHT services to meet the needs of patients without compromising patient safety. 2.2 Search Strategy In order to identify relevant…

situation, and he was admitted in the intensive care unit (ICU). I was not surprised at all, for I saw this event coming. Mr. G. was one of my first patients at the infirmary, he had a spinal decompression surgery procedure and he was post-op day four when I had my first interaction with him. I was assigned by my preceptor nurse to provide total nursing care for him. He was pleasant and cooperative with our goals in every interaction we had. I provided wound care and dressing changes for him.…

Bloodstream Infections in the Acute Care Setting by the Use of Multimodal Disinfectant Protocols. Collaboration was initiated with the assistance of the Hospital Chairperson of the Practice Council to initiate change in practice. Central Line Associated Bloodstream Infections (CLASBI) can result in financial burden and/or morbidity in the acute care setting. The financial burden associated with treating Central Line Associated Bloodstream Infections (CLASBI) in the acute care setting of one…

Medicaid reimbursed over 17 billion of those costs. Thus, the CMS initiated the SCIP program in an effort to mediate sepsis events. In addition to mediation, the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) (2015) has started tracking sepsis and sepsis care as a part of value based purchasing, in an effort to improve safe quality…

Introduction / Purpose: Ventilator-associated pneumonia (VAP) is the most common nosocomial infection in the intensive care unit (ICU). It caused prolonged hospital stay and increased mortality. In this study, we aimed to investigate the rate of VAP, causative microorganisms and their antibiotic susceptibilities. Materials and Method: This retrospective study included patients that admitted in 12-bed ICU between January 2013 and December 2014. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention criterias…

Progressive Mobility in the ICU and Patient Outcomes The traditional standard of care for critically ill patients has long included the premise that patients need to rest and remain immobile (Schweikert et al., 2011). In contrast to this notion, evidence-based practice has shown that when healthcare workers utilize early and progressive mobility of these patients, patient outcomes improve. The length of hospital stay, development of ICU acquired weakness, inflammation biomarkers, and other…

responsiveness to react on the current emergency or need. The nurses that face mostly this stress are the ones assigned in a critical care unit or in the intensive care unit. There are different factors that contribute on this anxiety that is being felt by the nurse. It is necessary to be equipped with knowledge and skills to be able to work as an effective critical care unit nurse. On a study conducted by Ulrich et al. (2010), one of the ethical issues that contribute to a nurse’s stress on…

The intensive care unit (ICU) is regarded as an extremely stressful work environment for nurses. Extensive work-related stress has been associated with psychological disturbances that influence the mental health status of ICU nurses. Work-related stress within the intensive care unit has been found to be correlated with anxiety, depression, post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD), and burnout out syndrome (BOS) in ICU nurses. Anxiety and depressive symptoms in the workplace may result in…

Critical care is a component of acute care, and it aims to treat patients who require high or constant levels of monitoring and support. These patients are often in life threatening positions, and are cared for in Critical Care Units (CCUs). Patients who enter critical care can be split into two groups, planned and unplanned admissions. A planned admission may be a patient undergoing an intricate elective surgery who requires one to one monitoring peri-operatively. Unplanned admissions can be…