scholarly journals Staff workload and adverse events during mechanical ventilation in neonatal intensive care units

2011 ◽  
Author(s):  
Fernando Lamy Filho ◽  
Antônio A. M. da Silva ◽  
José M. A. Lopes ◽  
Zeni C. Lamy ◽  
Vanda M. F. Simões ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Mechanical Ventilation ◽  
Intensive Care ◽  
Adverse Events ◽  
Intensive Care Units ◽  
Neonatal Intensive Care ◽  
Neonatal Intensive Care Units ◽  
Staff Workload

scholarly journals Pain Scales in Neonates Receiving Mechanical Ventilation in Neonatal Intensive Care Units – Systematic Review

2020 ◽  
Vol Volume 13 ◽  
pp. 1883-1897 ◽  
Author(s):  
Hanna Popowicz ◽  
Katarzyna Kwiecień-Jaguś ◽  
Jolanta Olszewska ◽  
Wioletta A Mędrzycla-Dąbrowska
Keyword(s):  
Systematic Review ◽  
Mechanical Ventilation ◽  
Intensive Care ◽  
Intensive Care Units ◽  
Neonatal Intensive Care ◽  
Neonatal Intensive Care Units ◽  
Pain Scales

scholarly journals Impact of nursing guidelines on nurses’ knowledge and performance regarding to prevention of ventilator associated pneumonia in neonates

2019 ◽  
Vol 9 (10) ◽  
pp. 15
Author(s):  
Safaa Abdel Fattah Abou Zed ◽  
Amira Adel Mohammed
Keyword(s):  
Mechanical Ventilation ◽  
Intensive Care ◽  
Intensive Care Units ◽  
Neonatal Intensive Care ◽  
Neonatal Intensive Care Units ◽  
Ventilator Associated Pneumonia ◽  
And Performance ◽  
Nursing Guidelines ◽  
The Impact ◽  
Nurses Knowledge

Background: Ventilator Associated Pneumonia (VAP) is a common syndrome in pediatrics primarily in infants and early childhood. Mechanical ventilation is one of the leading supportive modalities of management in the intensive care unit, but it conveys a lot of threats and complications. This study aimed to assess the impact of nursing guidelines on nurses’ knowledge and performance regarding to prevention of ventilator associated pneumonia in neonates through the following: 1) Assessment of nurses’ knowledge and performance regarding to prevention of ventilator associated pneumonia in neonates. 2) Designing, implementing and evaluating the impact of nursing guidelines on nurses’ knowledge and performance regarding to prevention of ventilator associated pneumonia in neonates.Methods: Research design: A quasi-experimental design was utilized to conduct this study.  Settings: The study was convoyed at Maternity & Gynecological and Children’s Hospitals affiliated to Ain shams University Hospitals from neonatal intensive care units. Sample: A convenient sample method of forty three (43) nurses, and fifty (50) neonates’ infants on mechanical ventilation was included in the study as a single study group. Tools: The questionnaire format, the observation checklist and implementation of nursing guidelines was assessed the nurses’ knowledge and performance regarding to prevention of ventilator associated pneumonia in neonates. The implementation of nursing guidelines was premeditated as reference guidelines for nurses.Results: There were statistically significant differences between mean scores of the pre and post test as regards nurses’ knowledge and performance regarding to prevention of ventilator associated pneumonia in neonates.Conclusions: Application of the nursing guidelines has a positive outcome on improving nurses’ knowledge and performance regarding to prevention of ventilator associated pneumonia in neonates. Recommendations: The current study recommended that directing a written protocol for prevention of ventilator associated pneumonia in neonates to support satisfactory knowledge, and competent practices are actually required at neonatal intensive care units.

scholarly journals Adverse events and other incidents in neonatal intensive care units

2015 ◽  
Vol 20 (3) ◽  
pp. 937-946 ◽  
Author(s):  
Luciana da Silva Lanzillotti ◽  
Marismary Horsth De Seta ◽  
Carla Lourenço Tavares de Andrade ◽  
Walter Vieira Mendes Junior
Keyword(s):  
Intensive Care ◽  
Adverse Events ◽  
Intensive Care Units ◽  
Neonatal Intensive Care ◽  
Neonatal Intensive Care Units ◽  
Healthcare Associated Infections ◽  
Age Group ◽  
Intravascular Catheters ◽  
Healthcare Associated

The occurrence of avoidable adverse events (AEs) represents a problem of quality of care that is responsible for the increase in monetary and social costs, causing suffering to the patient, their family members and the professional involved. This situation is aggravated when it involves newborns (NBs) with very low birth weights and shorter gestational ages, admitted to neonatal intensive care units (NICU). The scope of this study is to understand more about these incidents and adverse events in NICUs. The article aims to identify the occurrence of incidents, with and without injury that have occurred in NICUs in the literature and correlate this with the gestational age group of the NBs most affected. This is a systematic review of the available literature on incidents, particularly AEs as witnessed in NICUs. This study reveals that the types of incidents that occur in NICUs, with or without injury to the patient, are related to errors or failures in medication use, healthcare-associated infections (HAIs), skin injuries, mechanical ventilation and intravascular catheters. The cause of incidents and adverse events in NICUs are associated with human factors and the outcomes that are most damaging are due to HAIs. Furthermore, the study points out ways to mitigate these occurrences.

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