Susan Bedwell, DNP, APRN, CCNS-N, is a clinical nurse specialist in Neonatal Services at The Children’s Hospital at OU Medicine in Oklahoma City, OK. Leann L. Laubach, PhD, RN, is the assistant chair, an assistant professor, and the Baccalaureate Program Coordinator in the Department of...
Introducing NICUity's New Nurse Journal! With this journal, we are setting you up with the resources to promote self-care over silent suffering with the understanding that experiencing any adverse mental health condition does not change your val...
This chapter describes an interior and spatial design challenge at the Neonatal Intensive Care Unit (NICU) at the Royal Brisbane and Women’s Hospital that occurred over the Summer of 2022–23. The QUT Design Lab team worked closely with nurse champions from the NICU to help re-vision how th...
Some NICUs have had success with having the bedside nurse administer screens. More complex interviews should by administered by NMHPs. In any case, it is advantageous to have the person administering the screen be someone who has developed a positive working relationship with the parents, often a...
Future inquiry is needed that involves observations or recordings of NICU nurse voice use for further analysis in order to confirm whether nurse behaviors are aligned with the self-reported data. Interview studies that seek to discover a deeper insight into the nuances of NICU nurse decision making...
A nurse reflected on barriers to parental engagement in information gathering: “Being a bedside nurse, I would hear it from the doctor, what they said. And you can see them nodding and nodding. And then, afterwards when they leave, and I’ll say, ‘So did you understand what the ...
Parents who gave their consent to the program received a WhatsApp message every morning, with a short video clip of their baby in the incubator or crib and an update from the nurse on their infant’s medical condition and “how his/her night had been” in terms of sleep, feeding, apneas...
The interviews were conducted by an experienced registered nurse. All participants had prior personal and/or telephone contact with the researcher during the hospitalization of their child in the NICU due to her work in the position of clinical psychologist and were informed about it. The researcher...