Effectiveness of e-Learning on Neonatal Nurses' Pain Knowledge and Pain Measurement Skills: A Pilot Study.

Background: Reported benefits of virtual programs include user satisfaction and feasibility to train nurses to utilize pain scales. However, the effectiveness of the virtual neonatal pain management program on nurses' knowledge and scoring skill acquisition has not been examined.

Purpose: This study developed a comprehensive virtual program on neonatal pain management and examined its effectiveness on nurses' knowledge and skill acquisition of selected pain scales.

A Quality Improvement Collaborative Program for Neonatal Pain Management in Japan.

Background: Neonatal pain management guidelines have been released; however, there is insufficient systematic institutional support for the adoption of evidence-based pain management in Japan.

Purpose: To evaluate the impact of a collaborative quality improvement program on the implementation of pain management improvements in Japanese neonatal intensive care units (NICUs).

Methods: Seven Japanese level III NICUs participated in a neonatal pain management quality improvement program based on an Institute for Healthcare Improvement collaborative model.

Development of a Neonatal End-of-Life Care Education Program for NICU Nurses in Japan.

We developed the first end-of-life care education program for neonatal intensive care unit (NICU) nurses in Japan. It focused on ethical decision making, care of dying neonates, bereavement, and cultural communication. The program improved nurses' knowledge, F(2.

Subsequent pregnancy after having a baby who was hospitalized in the NICU.

Purpose: To understand experiences of mothers who had a baby hospitalized in the NICU and then decided to have another pregnancy.

Study Design And Methods: We used a descriptive phenomenological approach to study 12 mothers in Japan who had a child hospitalized in the NICU and had a subsequent child. Data were collected by semistructured interviews that occurred two to four times per participant.

Pain management of neonatal intensive care units in Japan.

Aim: To describe current neonatal pain management and individual and organizational factors that can improve neonatal pain practice from the viewpoints of both head nurses and head neonatologists in Japan.

Methods: An anonymous questionnaire was sent to general perinatal maternal and child medical centres that had level 3 units across Japan.

Results: A total of 61 of 89 head nurses and 54 of 89 head neonatologists replied.