Oral Feeding Outcome in Infants with a Tracheostomy.

Purpose: Currently, there is a lack of evidence-based guidelines on the proper protocol for feeding infants with a tracheostomy in the neonatal intensive care unit (NICU). The purpose of this study was to provide preliminary insight into the outcomes of these infants in one mid-Atlantic pediatric hospital.

Design And Methods: Retrospective and descriptive.

Parental Satisfaction With Pediatric Preoperative Assessment and Education in a Presurgical Care Center.

Purpose: The aim of this study was to evaluate parental satisfaction with preoperative assessment and education in a pediatric presurgical care center (PSCC) as well as parental use of a computer instructional video, EMMI, which is a product of Emmi Solutions (Chicago, IL), a health information company for patients.

Design: A prospective, exploratory, comparative, and correlational descriptive design was implemented.

Methods: A 23-item questionnaire was completed by 542 parents or legal guardians at the end of their child's PSCC visit.

Orientation to emergency nursing: perceptions of new graduate nurses.

Introduction: Emergency nursing is one of the most challenging and understaffed areas of professional nursing. Currently, little is known about how new graduate nurses perceive their experiences as novice emergency nurses. The purpose of this study was to gain an understanding of how new graduate nurses who are oriented to emergency nursing as their first professional area of nursing employment perceive the orientation program and emergency nursing at the beginning and end of a 6-month program.

ENA's Delphi study on national research priorities for emergency nurses in the United States.

Introduction: This study identified and prioritized research questions with greatest value to emergency nurses and of highest importance for health care consumers.

Methods: Three hundred twenty emergency nursing leaders were invited to participate in 3 rounds of mailed surveys aimed at developing consensus. During round I, 147 nurses submitted 456 research problems.

A description of clinical nurse specialist programs in the United States.

Changes have occurred in clinical nurse specialist educational requirements in recent years, and it is not known how programs have responded. The purpose of this descriptive survey was to identify the number of clinical nurse specialist programs in the United States, describe curricula, and examine enrollment and employment trends. This report contains data from 157 separate clinical nurse specialist programs/majors representing 139 different schools.

Into thinner air.

At a Colorado ski resort with an altitude of 8,500 feet, a guest is overcome by exhaustion, nausea, and headache. Could it be acute mountain sickness?

Incidence of adult immunization for influenza and pneumonia in a preadmission testing unit.

Health care-associated (nosocomial) infection is now more common in surgical patients than surgical-site or wound infection. Elderly patients and those having abdominal, neck, cardiac, or other thoracic procedures are at the highest risk. Pneumococcal pneumonia and influenza are the fifth leading cause of mortality in the elderly population.