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Advanced nursing practice in paediatric critical care

01 February 2008

Paediatric Nursing

General

Following the successful implementation of High Dependency Care: a model for development at King’s College hospital in 2005, the authors wished to consider the...

Reflections on student nurse placements in the PICU

01 February 2008

Paediatric Nursing

Education

Student placements in the paediatric intensive care unit (PICU) have a number of benefits including the recruitment of staff to this specialty, students’ learning of...

Detecting and managing deterioration in children

01 February 2005

Paediatric Nursing

Clinical

In the past, paediatric intensive care units (PICUs) were perceived by many as ivory towers. They often had poor relationships with other departments probably caused...

Weaning from sedation: don’t ignore the score

01 February 2008

Paediatric Nursing

Clinical

The use of sedation and analgesia in critically ill children is necessary for clinical management but can result in undesirable side effects such as physical...

Critical care education: a collaborative approach

01 December 2003

Paediatric Nursing

Education

A number of hospital trusts provide children’s and neonatal critical care services for the London area. Post registration education for nurses working in these units...

ISABEL: Support with clinical decision making

01 September 2003

Paediatric Nursing

Clinical

Healthcare professionals are working in an age when the amount of knowledge they have to remember each day is increasing exponentially (Wyatt 1991), but when...

Accounting for care: healthcare resource groups for paediatric critical care

01 February 2008

Paediatric Nursing

Management

Healthcare Resource Groups are a way of grouping patients in relation to the amount of healthcare resources they consume. They are the basis for implementation of...

Preventing ICU syndrome in children

01 December 2004

Paediatric Nursing

Clinical

‘Intensive care syndrome’ was first used in the 1960s following frequent reports of short-term psychological problems in intensive care patients during and after...

An emotional roller coaster: a parent’s perspective of ICU

01 February 2004

Paediatric Nursing

Clinical

I have worked as a paediatric nurse for 14 years in paediatric intensive care and general paediatric wards, but would never have dreamt how much impact an acutely...

Physiological measures in intensive care

01 November 2004

Paediatric Nursing

Clinical

Measurement of core-peripheral temperature gradient is thought to reflect peripheral vasoconstriction which can occur as a response to a cold environment,...

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