scholarly journals Professional practices of education/training of nurses in an intensive care unit

2019 ◽  
Vol 72 (2) ◽  
pp. 321-328
Author(s):  
Ana Paula Morais de Carvalho Macedo ◽  
Katia Grillo Padilha ◽  
Vilanice Alves de Araújo Püschel
Keyword(s):  
Intensive Care Unit ◽  
Intensive Care ◽  
Interpersonal Relationships ◽  
Scientific Evidence ◽  
Well Being ◽  
Education And Training ◽  
Close Relationship ◽  
Final Consideration ◽  
Education Training ◽  
And Training

ABSTRACT Objective: To understand the education/training of nurses working in an intensive care unit. Method: Case study with qualitative approach, with an intentional sample. Data collection and analysis used different research techniques, mainly document analysis, interview and field observation. Results: The data highlights feelings of well-being, satisfaction and motivation as important for education and training in a work context. Some organizational practices seem to promote interpersonal relationships and, consequently, increase the willingness of these professionals to adopt a reward perspective regarding continuing education and training, establishing a close relationship between the formal, the non-formal and the informal. Final Consideration: The attractiveness of this organization is related to the valorization and recognition that it can offer to the professionals. There is a reciprocity between a hospital that endorses up-to-date care and professionals who seek scientific evidence.

Providing Support for Neonatal Intensive Care Unit Health Care Professionals: A Bereavement Debriefing Program

2020 ◽  
Author(s):  
Katheleen Hawes ◽  
Justin Goldstein ◽  
Sharon Vessella ◽  
Richard Tucker ◽  
Beatrice E. Lechner
Keyword(s):  
Intensive Care Unit ◽  
Intensive Care ◽  
Neonatal Intensive Care Unit ◽  
Health Care Professionals ◽  
Neonatal Intensive Care ◽  
Well Being ◽  
Mixed Methods Study ◽  
Emotional Impact ◽  
Key Points ◽  
Close Relationship

Objective The aim of this study is to evaluate formal bereavement debriefing sessions after infant death on neonatal intensive care unit (NICU) staff. Study Design Prospective mixed methods study. Pre- and postbereavement debriefing intervention surveys were sent to clinical staff. Evaluation surveys were distributed to participants after each debriefing session. Notes on themes were taken during each session. Results More staff attended sessions (p < 0.0001) and attended more sessions (p < 0.0001) during the postdebriefing intervention epoch compared with the predebriefing epoch. Stress levels associated with the death of a patient whose family the care provider have developed a close relationship with decreased (p = 0.0123). An increased number of debriefing session participants was associated with infant age at the time of death (p = 0.03). Themes were (1) family and provider relationships, (2) evaluation of the death, (3) team cohesion, (4) caring for one another, and (5) emotional impact. Conclusion Bereavement debriefings for NICU staff reduced the stress of caring for dying infants and contributed to staff well-being. Key Points

Recommendations for Safety Education and Training for Graduate Students Directing Field Projects

2021 ◽  
Vol 9 (1) ◽  
pp. 74-80 ◽  
Author(s):  
Kaitlyn E. Davis ◽  
Pascale Meehan ◽  
Carla Klehm ◽  
Sarah Kurnick ◽  
Catherine Cameron
Keyword(s):  
Graduate Students ◽  
Well Being ◽  
Education And Training ◽  
Community Collaboration ◽  
Graduate Schools ◽  
Safety Education ◽  
Specific Training ◽  
Recent Graduate ◽  
Archaeological Methods ◽  
And Training

AbstractGraduate schools provide students opportunities for fieldwork and training in archaeological methods and theory, but they often overlook instruction in field safety and well-being. We suggest that more explicit guidance on how to conduct safe fieldwork will improve the overall success of student-led projects and prepare students to direct safe and successful fieldwork programs as professionals. In this article, we draw on the experiences of current and recent graduate students as well as professors who have overseen graduate fieldwork to outline key considerations in improving field safety and well-being and to offer recommendations for specific training and safety protocols. In devising these considerations and recommendations, we have referenced both domestic and international field projects, as well as those involving community collaboration.

Parent Psychological Distress in the Neonatal Intensive Care Unit Within the Context of the Social Ecological Model: A Scoping Review

2018 ◽  
Vol 24 (6) ◽  
pp. 495-509 ◽  
Author(s):  
Kristy Loewenstein
Keyword(s):  
Mental Health ◽  
Intensive Care Unit ◽  
Intensive Care ◽  
Psychological Distress ◽  
Neonatal Intensive Care Unit ◽  
Scoping Review ◽  
Neonatal Intensive Care ◽  
Family Cohesion ◽  
Ecological Model ◽  
Well Being

BACKGROUND: Neonatal intensive care unit (NICU) parents are at risk for psychological distress and impaired mental health, and statistics related to parent psychological distress vary. OBJECTIVE: To determine the scope of literature regarding the mental health and psychosocial well-being of parents in the NICU. DESIGN: A scoping review within the Arksey and O’Malley framework and the SEM was undertaken to answer, “What factors contribute to parent’s mental health in the NICU?” A systematic review of the literature was performed using the PRISMA methodology. RESULTS: Common socioeconomic factors and infant and parent characteristics may place parents at a greater risk for developing distress. History of mental illness, family cohesion, birth trauma, altered parenting role, gestational age, birth weight, and severity of prematurity/illness emerged as themes. CONCLUSION: Further research is required to provide a standard for the screening and assessment of parents’ mental health and psychosocial well-being during a NICU hospitalization. The experiences of nonbirth parents in the NICU should be explored to examine the effects of the hospitalization on all types of parents.

Adapting the Six-Part Storymaking Method for use with siblings of infants on the neonatal intensive care unit

2020 ◽  
Vol 7 (2) ◽  
pp. 223-242
Author(s):  
Rebecca Ann Versaci
Keyword(s):  
Intensive Care Unit ◽  
Intensive Care ◽  
Neonatal Intensive Care Unit ◽  
Emotional Expression ◽  
Neonatal Intensive Care ◽  
Well Being ◽  
Hospital Staff ◽  
Case Vignette ◽  
Profound Influence ◽  
Insight Into

When an infant is hospitalized on the neonatal intensive care unit (NICU) it can have a profound influence on the psychosocial well-being of the infant and their older sibling(s). This article presents a case vignette of the use of the Six-Part Storymaking Method with the sibling of an infant hospitalized on the NICU. The article reviews the therapeutic aims and benefits of the intervention, including: supporting emotional expression, providing opportunity for the sibling to be deeply witnessed by caregivers, therapist and hospital staff, empowering the sibling to inhabit the big sibling role and fostering insight into the sibling’s thoughts, feelings and behaviours as related to their infant’s hospitalization. Considerations for facilitation and assessment are also discussed.

Music Therapy Pre-internship Education and Training: Support for a Methods-Based Approach

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
Susan C Gardstrom ◽  
James Hiller ◽  
Annie Heiderscheit ◽  
Nancy L Jackson
Keyword(s):  
Music Therapy ◽  
Best Practice ◽  
Clinical Decision Making ◽  
Well Being ◽  
Clinical Decision ◽  
Education And Training ◽  
Population Based ◽  
Music Therapists ◽  
Training Support ◽  
And Training

Abstract As music therapists, music is our primary realm of understanding and action and our distinctive way of joining with a client to help them attain optimal health and well-being. As such, we have adopted and advocate for a music-focused, methods-based (M-B) approach to music therapy pre-internship education and training. In an M-B approach, students’ learning is centered on the 4 music therapy methods of composing, improvising, re-creating, and listening to music and how these music experiences can be designed and implemented to address the health needs of the diverse clientele whom they will eventually encounter as practicing clinicians. Learning is highly experiential, with students authentically participating in each of the methods and reflecting on these self-experiences as a basis for their own clinical decision-making. This is differentiated from a population based (P-B) approach, wherein students’ attention is directed at acquiring knowledge about the non-musical problems of specific “clinical populations” and the “best practice” music interventions that are presumed to address these problems. Herein, we discuss both approaches, identifying the limitations of a P-B perspective and outlining the benefits of an M-B curriculum and its relevance to 21st-century music therapy practice.

scholarly journals The sound of potency: An observation study of nurses’ approach to sound in a pediatric intensive care unit

2017 ◽  
Vol 5 (2) ◽  
pp. 46
Author(s):  
Emma Mellgren ◽  
Janet Mattsson
Keyword(s):  
Intensive Care Unit ◽  
Intensive Care ◽  
Pediatric Intensive Care Unit ◽  
Pediatric Intensive Care ◽  
Well Being ◽  
High Tech ◽  
Noise Levels ◽  
Observation Study ◽  
Care Environment ◽  
High Noise

Objective: The objective of this study was to investigate the nurses’ approach to three sources of sound that contribute to high noise levels; alarms, doors that open and conversation.Methods: Methods used derived from a theoretical perspective based on interpretive phenomenology and caring culture. In the pediatric intensive care, the caregivers of the children work in a high-tech environment as they are surrounded by sound from several sources. How caregivers understand and acknowledge how these sounds negatively affect a child’s well-being depends on their individual knowledge and awareness of how children are affected by sound. In most cases, coming into an intensive care unit is a new experience for a child. This causes greater stress, both from the environment itself as well as from sound levels. The method was built on a phenomenological perspective and an interpretive non-participation, semi-structured observations were conducted in a pediatric intensive care unit (PICU) of one of Sweden’s metropolitan regions in the winter of 2014-2015.Results: The results show that noise is an overlooked phenomenon in the pediatric intensive care environment as it has given way to other priorities in the nurse’s work. It is also apparent that this depends on the department’s caring culture as it prioritizes other things, resulting in normalizing high levels of noise as a part of the pediatric intensive care environment.Conclusions: Noise levels are not a priority in the department’s caring culture. High noise levels are permitted unreflectedly and appears to be a token of potency and an accepted part of the health care environment.

Prestige versus Practicality—A Dilemma for the Engineering Profession

1985 ◽  
Vol 199 (3) ◽  
pp. 139-144 ◽  
Author(s):  
K McCormick
Keyword(s):  
Educational System ◽  
Well Being ◽  
Education And Training ◽  
Working Environment ◽  
Full Time ◽  
Engineering Profession ◽  
The Past ◽  
Social Prestige ◽  
The Social ◽  
And Training

British engineers have claimed that their important contributions to economic and social well-being, based on their achievements as practical people, have gone unrecognized or unrewarded. Yet over the past thirty years efforts to boost the social prestige of British engineers appear to have undermined the social arrangements which fostered the strong practical ethos. Increasing reliance on the full-time educational system is tending to raise social prestige through bringing the ‘all graduate profession’ and through trends to recruitment from higher social backgrounds. Yet these trends have been associated with a fall in traditional and recognizable training. This paper examines both the nature of the ‘practical’ tradition and efforts to raise ‘prestige’ and asks whether the engineering profession is caught on the horns of an irresolvable dilemma—to boost either prestige or practicality. The paper concludes that in principle the British pattern of education and training has much to commend it still, with the strong emphasis on training elements in a working environment. But it is argued that its success will depend on engineers and their employers becoming much more active in the field of training.

scholarly journals Alterações oculares em unidade de terapia intensiva: scoping review

2021 ◽  
Vol 11 (34) ◽  
pp. 168-180
Author(s):  
Queila Faria dos Santos ◽  
Graciele Oroski Paes ◽  
Fernanda Garcia Bezerra Góes
Keyword(s):  
Intensive Care Unit ◽  
Intensive Care ◽  
Web Of Science ◽  
Scientific Evidence ◽  
Eye Diseases ◽  
Factores De Riesgo ◽  
Eye Damage ◽  
Terapia Intensiva ◽  
Ocular Changes ◽  
Determining Factor

Mapear as evidências científicas sobre alterações oculares em pacientesinternados em terapia intensiva. Trata-se de uma revisão de escopo, com adoção da estratégia PPC nas bases de dados PUBMED, WEB OF SCIENCE e a biblioteca virtual SCIELO. Adotou-se como elegiveis, estudos primarios, empiricos, quantitativos e qualitativos, publicados em três idiomas. Foram encontrados 204 artigos e após análise, selecionou-se 08 artigos para compor o estudo. A lagoftalmia apresenta-se como principal alteração ocular e fator determinante para o desenvolvimento de danos oftálmicos. Evidencia-se que o ambiente, a terapêutica instituída e as próprias comorbidades do paciente possuem associação com as alterações oculares. As doenças oculares são passíveis de prevenção. O diagnóstico precoce de alterações oculares e a rastreabilidade dos fatores de risco para doenças oculares são medidas necessária para evitar ocorrência de dano ocular aos pacientes internados em terapia intensiva.Descritores: Síndrome do Olho Seco, Doenças da Córnea, Unidade de Terapia Intensiva. Eye changes in an intensive care unit: scoping reviewAbstract: To map the scientific evidence on ocular changes in patients in intensive care. Method: this is a scope review, with the adoption of the PPC strategy in the PUBMED, WEB OF SCIENCE databases and the SCIELO virtual library. Primary, empirical, quantitative and qualitative studies, published in three languages, were adopted as eligible. 204 articles were found and after analysis, 08 articles were selected to compose the study. Lagophthalmia is the main ocular alteration and a determining factor for the development of ophthalmic damage. It is evident that the environment, the instituted therapy and the patient's own comorbidities are associated with ocular changes. Eye diseases are preventable. The early diagnosis of eye changes and the traceability of risk factors for eye diseases are necessary measures to prevent the occurrence of eye damage to patients admitted to intensive care.Descriptors: Dry Eye Syndrome, Corneal Diseases, Intensive Care Unit. Cambios oculares en una unidad de cuidados intensivos: revisión del alcanceResumen: Mapear la evidencia científica sobre cambios oculares en pacientes en cuidados intensivos. Método: se trata de una revisión de alcance, con la adopción de la estrategia PPC en las bases de datos PUBMED, WEB OF SCIENCE y la biblioteca virtual SCIELO. Los estudios primarios, empíricos, cuantitativos y cualitativos, publicados en tres idiomas, se aprobaron como elegibles. Se encontraron 204 artículos y luego del análisis se seleccionaron 08 artículos para componer el estudio. La lagoftalmia es la principal alteración ocular y un factor determinante para el desarrollo de daño oftálmico. Es evidente que el entorno, la terapia instituida y las propias comorbilidades del paciente se asocian a cambios oculares. Las enfermedades oculares se pueden prevenir. El diagnóstico precoz de los cambios oculares y la trazabilidad de los factores de riesgo de enfermedades oculares son medidas necesarias para prevenir la aparición de daños oculares en los pacientes ingresados en cuidados intensivos.Descriptores: Síndrome del Ojo Seco, Enfermedades Corneales, Unidade de Cuidados Intensivos.

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