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Neonatal network : NN · Feb 1996
Increasing staff nurse awareness of postoperative pain management in the NICU.
Infants must have effective pain management in the postoperative period. A Level III NICU evaluated its current practice and identified barriers to effective pain management. ⋯ This included developing a pain management team, testing and implementing an objective postoperative pain tool, employing a new flow sheet that incorporates the pain tool, offering multidisciplinary educational activities, and involving nurses in research. These actions have broken down the barrier to effective postoperative pain management and provided direction for a new standard of care.
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Neonatal network : NN · Aug 1994
Case ReportsDevelopment of a neonatal intensive care nursery resuscitation and triage team: impact on nursing care and infant outcome.
The admission and initial stabilization of an infant in the neonatal intensive care unit pose a time of increased stress for the neonate as well as the caregivers. Constant observation by nursing personnel is critical so that major physiologic and anatomic changes that naturally occur do not compromise the neonate during this time of extrauterine adjustment. ⋯ The complexity of the admission process should not jeopardize the nursing care of other infants in a busy neonatal intensive care unit. We developed a framework that separates bedside nursing activities from the resuscitation and admission process that ensures the infant's transition to the nursery is met with urgency and consistency without subjecting the remaining infants to a decreased level of care.