Neonatal intensive care unit

year was a rotation in Intensive Care at Baptist. The I.C.U. was run by Dr. Sid Garvey, a cardiologist who was highly regarded as a distinguished medical educator. Aware of the caliber of medical residents at Baptist, Garvey devised an elaborate set of protocols for virtually every emergency that could occur in an I.C.U. The protocols were so logical and easy to understand the medical residents at Baptist actually bordered on being proficient in the management of critical care patients. Most…

According to health and social care information Centre (HSCIS) (2014), more than half of admission to critical care unit was emergency and male patients. The patients were admitted mostly from theater and recovery (44.2%) requiring an average of 2.2 organ support. The psychological outcome of intensive care survivors highlighted conjointly by Wade et al., (2012) and Griffiths et al., (2013) suggested the need of intervention to decrease the result of psychological morbidity. The impact of…

topic of the type of nurse in the NICU they are called neonatal nurses, they watch and take care of the newborns that are born before the full term of the mothers pregnancy. The nurses in the NICU have an incredibly important job and have to be a extremely patient person because their stress being shown can cause the parents or family to stress and cause a big mess. The people in this field specialize in neonatology. With these in mind a neonatal nurse requires an associates or an bachelors…

caused mainly due to lack of an institutional oral care guidelines followed at this hospital. Hiroko and Blegen, 2015 carried out a research on how institutional guidelines for oral care and improvement of nursing perception on following the proper protocol helps in diminishing VAP infections. This research was a cross-sectional carried out within 8 hospitals with ICU in 2009. This was a quantitative study giving evidence that proper oral hygiene care with set guidelines wholly or partially…

Synopsis of Psychiatry. 11th ed. Philadelphia: Wolters Kluwer; 2014. Chapter 21.2, Delirium; p.657-63. 2. Barr J, Fraser GL, Puntillo K, Ely EW, et al. American College of Critical Care Medicine: Clinical Practice Guidelines for the Management of Pain, Agitation, and Delirium in Adult Patients in the Intensive Care Unit. Crit Care Med 2013; 41(1):263-306. 3. Brothwick M, Bourne R, Craig M, Egan A, Oxley J. Detection, Prevention and Treatment of Delirium in Critically Ill Patients. UKCPA; June…

strive to make comfort their primary focus. They must alleviate the pain and discomfort of their patients regardless of the ability of the patient to communicate that pain. Sadly, even though there is an abundance of research on pain responses in neonatal populations, they still fall victim to underestimated and undertreated pain whether it is…

American Association of Critical Care Nurses American health care, like other business genres, responds to the demands of society (Shi, 2013). Thus, when the polio epidemic took place in the 1950s, American hospitals established the first intensive care units to care for these patients (AACN, 2015). In evaluating these units and assessing the successes and quality of care provided to these patients, cardiac units were developed in the 1960s to care for the increasing demands of the cardiac…

on their clinical experience to provide quality care. Nurses routinely need to question their practice and look for alternative methods to improve the process of care” (p. 4). Evidence supports that modifications in nursing practice cultivated by research improves patient outcomes. There is no one better than the bedside nurse to question and identify patient care problems. Once a problem is identified the nurse has the duty to question if the care being provided is supported by evidence. When…

Concept Analysis: Stress, for Families Related to Pediatric Intensive Care Unit Admissions Pediatric intensive care unit (PICU) is considered stressful environment and emotionally challenging for parents and caregivers. Studies have demonstrated immediate as well as post-traumatic stress disorders among parents whose children are admitted in PICU. The term “stress”, as it is currently used was coined by Hans Selye in 1936, who defined it as “the non-specific response of the body to any…

respiratory distress syndrome in children (i.e., tachycardia, tachypnea, hypotention and shock) requires quick evaluation and initiation of a complex treatment plan involving hospitalist, intensivist, pulmonologist and pediatrician collaboratively rendering care that is in harmony with the goals of treatment (i.e., ventilation, oxygenation and…