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Hospital Neonatal Intensive Care Unit and the Inclusion of a Child Life Therapist

adding a child life therapist for a neonatal intensive care unit (ICU). This person would be a trained therapist, with the sole pu...

Pain Perception Assessment Research Problem Solving

population, newborn infants who can not verbally communicate their pain or allow the researcher any means of utilizing patient sel...

Family Values/ICU Environment

and the church" and encompasses "spirituality, social support, and traditional, non-biomedical health and healing practices," whic...

Influence of Advanced Practice Nurses

part of their academic preparation knowledge that pertains to how "to initiate, plan and manage change" (Elser, McClanahan and Gre...

NICU Principles of Family Practice

care is the guiding concept behind the Childrens Hospital of Philadelphias (CHOP) commitment to values that place mutual trust and...

Using Utilization Management to Determine Courses of Action in a Canadian Hospital

MIS Guidelines? Certainly the publication addresses resource utilization, but does it specifically address creation of a new unit...

Iatrogenic Infection

This 14 page paper looks at the issue of iatrogenic infection and how a hospital may undertake an innovation to reduce the occurre...

Role of Duties in the Burnout Problem of Nurses

job experience, type A behavior patterns, and fear of negative evaluation, combined with frequency of stressful events" (Dugan et ...

ICU Delirium

hospital stays (Cole and Soucy, 2003). While all ICU patients have serious and potentially life-threatening conditions, those ov...

Registered Nurse Safe Staffing Act of 2009

which are factors that are likely to have a beneficial affect on the chronic nursing shortage that is currently affecting the heal...

Communication Issues/Neonatal ICU

some problems that can be encountered include "breast engorgement, nipple soreness, and latch-on" (Hurst, 2007, p. 207). An interp...

Hemby Children's Hospital

At Hemby, the list of subspecialties includes, under neonatology: "Pediatric anesthesiology, Pediatric Cardiology, Pediatric EEG/S...

Children’s Hospital of Philadelphia

to customize therapies to variations in genetic makeup" (The Childrens Hospital, 2007). They are noted as being one fo the first h...

The Interprofessional Approach to Nursing

records and kept him and his family informed about his progress to date and what he could expect along the path to recovery. Nurs...

INTERVIEW: CHILDREN'S HOSPITAL OF PHILADELPHIA

our doctors, for example, is able to discover some new kind of vaccines from cases, that looks pretty good on our experience list....

Critique of Bohomol, Ramos and D'Innocenzo (2009)

of a research article is "an impersonal evaluation of the strengths and limitations of the research being reviewed" (Coughlan, Cro...

Issues Pertaining to Hospital Facilities

and how this equipment should differ for this population: Bariatric patients are typically defined as those who are extremely obe...

Surgical ICU Clinical Practice and Theoretical Nursing Models

this scenario, the question to be explored now is how each of above named nursing models addresses these patient needs. The Syste...

CCRN Certification/A Program Proposal

grueling exam Id have to pass to earn my CCRN," she bought the necessary study materials, sent in an applications and "hit the boo...

Literature Review of Incidences of Septic Shock and Sepsis in ICU Patients

result in septic shock. Of that 200,000, approximately half result in death due to the onset of sepsis and the subsequent septic ...

Intensive Care Unit Stress, Meeting Needs of Family, and Coping

Kings theory provides a useful tool for nursing intervention designed to facilitate helping the patient and his/her family cope w...

Emergency Room and Intensive Care Unit Nursing Retention

the chaos," she said (Serafini 1490). This nurse further stated that sometimes ER nurses are called to the intensive care unit for...

The Protection of Children

5 pages and 3 sources. This paper provides an overview of the systems in place to protect children. Specifically, this paper con...

Now Night Nurses on an Intensive Care Unit

of this decision. Ecological theory is an attempt to bring in many different influences in order to understand how a society ...

Children with Special Needs

broad social perspective and also with regard to the many different kinds of requirements which disabled or special-needs children...

Impact of Insured on St. Jude Children's Research Hospital

pay for treatment that is not covered by insurance and families without insurance are not required to pay (SJCRH, 2008). Furthermo...

Medical Emergency Teams (METs)

intensive care unit (ICU) (Scholle and Mininni, 2006, p. 37). Bedside nurses are encouraged in many hospitals to make a MET call...

Organizational Change in St. Vincent's ICU

Hospital. The purpose here is to describe and evaluate the restructuring of St. Vincents ICU to gain one-on-one nursing and so im...

Cardiac Surgery in Africa

This paper discusses a documentary film that follows eight Rweandan children as they go to a hospital for cardiac surgery. The chi...