Neonatal Nursing & Family-Centered Care

Hi 99ers , Given the well recognised potential for drug error on the NICU I would be grateful for some insight into how other Units have approached the processes of education, surveillance and management of medicine errors on their NICU. If you prefer please feel free to email me ( alih.1@icloud.com ) Kind regards Ali

We, EBNEO, would like to share one of our latest commentaries, this time on a study on admission temperature and risk of adverse outcomes, written by Julia Maletzki, Stephanie Adzikah, Christoph Rüegger, and Dirk Bassler, at the University Hospital of Zurich, Switzerland. Find the full EBNEO review on ebneo.org!

Hi - as you know , most bacteremia in NICU related to staph.epidermidis , which lives on baby skin and of course improper hygienic measures at time of invasive procedure lead to to such a complications. what i want to know : 1st - do we have to cover the catheterized umbilicus or leav it to air ? is there any study adressing the difference in colonization and infection between two practices (cover or donr cover ) . 2nd question : what is the daily care to uvc ? clean or wipe with N/S - Alcohol or bethidine ? any information thanks

Hello, I wonder about use of polyethylene bag in mangement of hypothermia occur after baby put in incubitor. I know there is many studied about bags just after delivery during resuscitation. But do you have protocols , guidlines, papers about using bags to manage hypothermia during NICU stay inside incubitor.

When discussing asymmetrical IUGR with parents emphasis should be placed on the preservation of brain growth and that body weight will catch up As well as categorising by weight it is important to clinically assess the newborn infant to ascertain whether it is small for gestational age or exhibiting signs of intrauterine retardation. The causes of IUGR should be considered and the consequences of IUGR predicted and managed appropriately (e.g. hypoglycaemia, hypothermia, polycythaemia). 😃😃😃 In nursing the extreme preterm it is important to be aware of the complications of prematurity, which include poor temperature and fl uid regulation and cardiorespi…

Hi.......... We have recently had many parents requesting that the siblings of our babies be allowed to visit. In the past we allowed children to visit their baby brother or sister but that policy was changed due to growing concerns about infection risks. In our area, community acquired MRSA is becoming much more common and we also worry about RSV season during the winter months. I have been working on a compromise of sorts.......that would allow the siblings to visit if the visit is pre-scheduled and supervised. Their entire visit would be managed by an RN and would include some education at their level about "their" baby, a bit of teaching about infections an…

Good afternoon! I wanted to reach out to you to let you know Hope for HIE has developed and published some educational materials for families and professionals. We have them available in two ways - downloadable from our website, or requestable through our website, worldwide. We would love to get these in the hands of as many NICU and PICU providers as we can to help families sooner than ever before, so that nobody has to face a diagnosis of HIE alone. To view the printable resources, click here: http://www.hopeforhie.org/printableresources To request printed resources, click here: http://www.hopeforhie.org/requestmaterials P…

Hi how are you >> its first time to celebrate the world prematurity day in our hospital and our consultants are asking us for active participations so any ideas ? iam thinking of preparing lectures on : KMC , Nutritional support for Pt babies , golden hour .. we dont have a good protocol to follow in these topics so it will be of great value so any help ?

Can you share the structure and working methodology of the family support services in your nicu? We are planning to start them in our Place. Thanks Dr.selvan

Several scales to assess pain in newbrns exist: both for acute and for postsurgical pain. Scales for postsurgical or chronical pain are few and easy to use. I recently wondered if pain scales for acute pain are really necessary: they seem scarcely used in clinical practice though they are more than 40(!), they are often complicated, and -above all- they give a pain score when the procedure is over, i.e., when (I fear) it is too late. Acute pain scales do not consider the context of the procedure, but only babies' reactions; therefore they should simultaneously use and combineseveral indicators. I proposed to settle for pain detection instead of pain scoring. It is easy:…