Under pressure: preventing pressure ulcers in critically ill infants.

Purpose: To determine whether a pressure ulcer prevention bundle was associated with a significant reduction in pressure ulcer development in infants in the pediatric intensive care unit.

Design And Methods: Quasi-experimental design involving 399 infants 0 to 3 months of age at a large tertiary care medical center.

Results: The implementation of the care bundle was associated with a significant drop in pressure ulcer incidence from 18.

Integrative review: parent perspectives on care of their child at the end of life.

This integrative review aims to describe parents' perspectives on end-of-life care for their children. Fifteen publications from a literature search of the Cochrane databases, CINAHL, MEDLINE, and PSYCHinfo were included in the review. Recurring themes included poor communication/lack of information, strained relationships/inadequate emotional support, parental need to maintain parent/child relationships in life and death, quality of care continues after the death of the child, influence of services/planning on parent/child impacts quality of life, and the difficult decision to terminate life support.

Pilot study investigating infant vagal reactivity and visual behavior during object perception.

Objective: The authors examined whether changes in vagal tone were related to infant visual attention during auditory and visual events paired (synchronous) and not paired (asynchronous) in time. They predicted that infants would demonstrate greater visual attention to the synchronous slideshow and that vagal tone would decrease with visual attention.

Method: Nineteen infants, 3.

Videoconferencing and telehealth technologies can provide a reliable approach to remote assessment and teaching without compromising quality.

Cardiovascular disease remains a significant chronic healthcare problem in this country, with considerable associated economic and quality-of-life challenges. Along with these challenges, there is high demand for healthcare provider time, particularly in the areas of management of complex healthcare needs and patient education. At the same time, a critical nursing shortage exists.

A telehomecare model for optimizing rehabilitation outcomes.

For telehealth to become an accepted component of rehabilitation, a scientific base verifying that telehealth improves outcomes must be developed. A conceptual framework based on theory and empirical findings is necessary for this area of inquiry to flourish. Most academic curricula possess such an educational pillar, which serves to help prepare professionals to practice in the new arena, and scholars to perform quality research.