Unintended Consequences of the Neonatal Intensive Care Unit Environment: Integrative Review of Single-Family Room Unit Design.

Background: Recent trends in neonatal intensive care unit design have been directed toward reducing negative stimuli and creating a more developmentally appropriate environment for infants who require intensive care. These efforts have included reconfiguring units to provide private rooms for infants.

Purpose: The purpose of this integrative review was to synthesize and critically analyze negative outcomes for patients, families, and staff who have been identified in the literature related to single-family room (SFR) care in the neonatal intensive care unit.

Preparing health professional students for interprofessional practice related to neurodevelopmental disabilities: a pilot program.

Many health professional students have insufficient general knowledge about individuals with neurodevelopmental disabilities. Students lack the expertise required to work with this population and their families. Interprofessional practice education (IPE) programs, designed for working with individuals with specialized needs and their families, are needed to improve overall care provided.

Perceptions of Spiritual Care Education, Competence, and Barriers in Providing Spiritual Care Among Registered Nurses.

The purpose of the study was to explore registered nurses' (RNs) perceptions of their spiritual care competence (SCC), preparedness, and barriers to providing spiritual care and frequency of provision of spiritual care. Additionally, the study aimed to examine associations between spiritual care education, preparedness, competence, and frequency. A descriptive, cross-sectional study included demographic questions, the Spiritual Care Competency scale, the Nurses' Spiritual Care Therapeutics scale, the Spiritual Care Practice questionnaire subscale II, and three open-ended questions.

Implementing a Theoretical Debriefing Model in a Prelicensure BSN Program.

The National League for Nursing and International Nursing Association for Clinical Simulation and Learning stress that debriefing fosters critical reflection and is essential to all educational settings. The call to action for nurse educators is to incorporate theory-based debriefing throughout the curriculum. This article reports on how one school of nursing implemented the theory-based model, Debriefing for Meaningful Learning©, into the prelicensure baccalaureate curriculum.

Blogs Written by Families During Their Child's Hospitalization: A Thematic Narrative Analysis.

Purpose: To identify stressors experienced by parents whose child is hospitalized in an intensive care unit, and identify coping mechanisms utilized to ameliorate those stressors.

Design And Methods: Using Lazarus and Folkman's Transactional Model of Stress and Coping as a framework, 20 publicly available blogs written by parents while their child was a patient in intensive care were analyzed using thematic analysis techniques. Stressors and coping techniques were identified, and grouped by theme for further analysis.