Neonatal intensive care unit

c. Breath sounds, heart sounds, and abdominal sounds d. Communicate succinctly with other care…

was very happy I received the opportunity to observe down in the pediatric intensive care unit (PICU) and shadow the nurse Stacy. I am interested in pediatric nursing, and although I was a patient in the PICU at one time in my life, I did not get to see or learn a whole lot about it. I was surprised to find out the nurse I was shadowing had her Associates Degree in Nursing along with some of the other nurses on the unit. For some reason, I just figured the nurses would all have their…

Yes. This research article was published on July 2016 in the Journal of Respiratory Care. It is a peer-reviewed journal. 2. Taito, S., Shime, N., Ota, K., & Yasuda, H. (2016). Early mobilization of mechanically ventilated patients in the intensive care unit. Journal of Intensive Care, 4(50), 1-7. doi:10.1186/s40560-016-0179-7 Strengths: The authors of this article explained the role of the ABCDE bundle (awakening, breathing coordination…

were doing. As a student I was paying attention to the environment, the roles of each care of the health care team, and the different diagnosis of the patients’.…

Master of Science in Nursing in Adult-Gerontology Acute Care Nurse Practitioner (AG-ACNP). Although graduation is in sight, I am continuing to learn both in the classroom and during my clinical experience at Massachusetts General Hospital. My current rotation is on the orthopedic trauma service caring for inpatient orthopedic patients. The orthopedic service, while traditionally surgically focused, has recently embraced a new modality of care. Recognizing the frequent sequelae associated with…

4th and 5th I had an ICU rotation to 3 South at Moses Cone Memorial Hospital which is a surgical ICU unit. The unit I am usually on is 2900, which is a Cardiac ICU at the same Hospital. Both units being ICU, I wasn’t sure how much a difference there would be between the two. However, there was a big difference between the two ICUs. Of course some things were the same, such as the layout of the unit (the pods, computers, and medication rooms). Whereas there are some patients on the Surgical ICU…

current nutritional supply and demand (Sole, Klein, Moseley, 2013, p. 81). In a critical care area, patients have special nutritional needs because the stress of their complex illness increases their metabolic rate and nutritional needs, In addition, they are assumed to be at nutritional risk due to lack of mobilization which can result to muscle atrophy. Nutritional support is an integral part of the patient’s care (Moore, 2016). Mr. H’s nutritional status can be determined by assessing the…

an infection, then early sepsis, which if not treated it turns into septic shock. Sepsis is defined by the Surviving Sepsis Campaign as a “life-threatening organ dysfunction caused by a dysregulated host response to infection (Society of Critical Care Medicine, 2017, p. 489).” Septic shock is defined as a “subset of sepsis with circulatory and cellular/metabolic…

The objective of this essay is to discuss with reference to published literature “ICU diaries are frequently promoted as being beneficial for the patients’ psychological recovery from critical illness”. Intensive care unit (ICU) is an environment where often the most fragile patients are, and where they receive treatment. During their sometimes prolonged stay in ICU, patients often experience strong physical and psychological stress, including critical life threatening illness, terror, lack of…

The aim of the project was to minimize the inappropriate use of physical restraint in the acute respiratory unit, which caters to about thirty-two to thirty-eight patients with acute respiratory issues, in the promotion of the patient safety and improving patient outcomes. In the beginning of the project, it was noted that the acute respiratory unit was one of the lowest performing units when it comes to the proper utilization of physical restraint. As was stated by HCPro.com (2015), using a…