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Wound Care in the Neonatal Intensive Care Unit

Neonatal Network, 2011
The skin is a vital organ with key protective functions. Infants in the NICU are at risk for skin injury because of developmental immaturity and intensive care treatments. When skin injury occurs, the neonatal nurse is challenged to provide wound care to optimize functional and cosmetic healing.
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Perinatal Palliative Care in the Neonatal Intensive Care Unit

Critical Care Nursing Clinics of North America, 2022
With the frequency of infant deaths in the United States, many attributed to congenital malformations and prematurity, the neonatal intensive care unit (NICU) nurse must be adept at planning and providing perinatal palliative care. The NICU nurse requires education and training to proficiently contribute to the care planning and delivery of care and ...
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Palliative care in the Neonatal Intensive Care Unit

2015
This chapter presents the core values of neonatal palliative care within the context of providing culturally appropriate, compassionate, individualized, family-centered developmental care (IFCDC) and patient-focused care for infants receiving care in the NICU environment.
Cheryl Thaxton, Brigit Carter, Chi Dang Hornik   +2 more
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Nursing Care in the Neonatal Intensive Care Unit

JOGN Nursing, 1982
The field of neonatal care has evolved into a specialty brimming with technological advances, accompanied by expanded nursing roles and responsibilities. In light of this, the impact that thermoregulation, noise pollution, and disruptive care planning can have upon the progress of a sick newborn is discussed.
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Sedation in the Neonatal Intensive Care Unit: International Practice

2014
Inadequate pain management in neonatal life impairs neurodevelopmental outcome because it alters pain thresholds, pain- or stress-related behavior, and physiological responses later in life. However, there are recently also emerging animal experimental and human epidemiological data on the impact of analgo-sedatives on neuro-apoptosis and impaired ...
Allegaert, Karel, van den Anker, John
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Covering the Costs of Care in Neonatal Intensive Care Units

Pediatrics, 1992
The continued rise of health care costs, despite private and governmental control efforts, has sustained cost containment as a central issue for health care researchers and policy makers. In keeping with these concerns, the Florida Health Care Cost Containment Board conducted a study of neonatal intensive care units (NICUs) in Florida to ascertain the ...
A W, Imershein, C, Turner, J G, Wells, A, Pearman   +3 more
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Anesthesia for Procedures in the Intensive Care Unit and the Neonatal Intensive Care Unit

2011
Anesthesiologists who are assigned to provide anesthesia for operations in the intensive care unit (ICU) must adapt principles of safe and effective anesthesia practice to this novel outside-of-the-operating-room environment. Among the reasons to perform surgical procedures at the bedside in the ICU is the avoidance of transporting an unstable ...
John K. Stene, Carolyn A. Barbieri
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The Neonatal Intensive-Care Unit

Pediatric Annals, 1978
H E, Evans, L, Glass
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Relationship-Based Care in the Neonatal Intensive Care Unit

Creative Nursing, 2013
At St. Joseph's Regional Medical Center in Paterson, New Jersey, implementation of the Relationship-Based Care (RBC) model of care delivery and enculturation of the philosophy of care embodied in Jean Watson's Theory of Human Caring (Watson, 2007) improved patient outcomes and supported quality nursing care across the continuum of care in our ...
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Care of Preterm Infants in the Neonatal Intensive Care Unit

Pediatrics, 2009
Technologic and pharmacologic advances in neonatal intensive care and their impact on short-term and long-term outcomes have been the major focus of neonatal clinical research. Neonatal mortality reached an unsurpassable minimum by the late 1990s. However, this has been associated with high rates of neonatal morbidity and neurodevelopmental impairment ...
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