REVIEW QUESTION/OBJECTIVE The overall objective of this systematic review is to identify, critically appraise and synthesize the experiences of new graduate nurses in the neonatal intensive care unit (NICU). The specific review question is: what are the experiences of new graduate nurses working in a NICU setting?

Decreasing antibiotic days, mortality, and sepsis-related mortality are critical goals for our patients in the neonatal intensive care unit (NICU). In a prospective design, this small study in a single NICU evaluated the implementation of diagnostic criteria for early-onset sepsis (EOS) and lateonset sepsis (LOS), focused on stopping antibiotics early if hematologic and CRP tests were within th...

Neurobehavioral organization describes infants' abilities to organize themselves within their central nervous system maturation and environment. As part of infants' environment, caregivers can structure the environment to support infants' development. Care of the high-risk infant emphasizes support of infants' emerging neurobehavioral organization. This article describes the theoretical rationa...

INTRODUCTION Automated paging systems that inform providers about abnormal laboratory values may alter their behavior. METHODS We prospectively studied provider behavior before and after implementation of a laboratory paging system that utilizes a filtering mechanism. RESULTS The proportion of laboratory results that were acted upon did not change significantly. However, providers were more...

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BACKGROUND Medication errors are common in the neonatal intensive care unit (NICU). Various strategies to reduce errors have been described in adult and paediatric patients but there are few published data on their effect in the NICU. AIM To describe the medication errors occurring within an NICU, and assess the impact of a combined risk management/clinical pharmacist led education programme ...

This work is about the problem of noise in neonatal incubators and in the environment in the neonatal intensive care units. Its main objective is to analyse the impact of noise in hospitals of Mendoza and La Rioja. Methodology: The measures were taken in different moments in front of higher or lower severity level in the working environment. It is shown that noise produces severe damages and ch...

M Cuttini, V Casotto, M Kaminski, I de Beaufort, I Berbik, G Hansen, L Kollée, A Kucinskas, S Lenoir, A Levin, M Orzalesi, J Persson, M Rebagliato, M Reid, R Saracci, and other members of the EURONIC Study Group . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . ....

holistic care is the evaluation of the physical and mental states of individuals. considering the importance of spirituality in healthcare and its pivotal role as the first step toward providing spiritual care, this study was conducted to determine the perception of iranian nurses towards spirituality in neonatal intensive care units (nicus). methods: this study was conducted on nine participan...