Barriers and facilitators for the implementation of co-created nursing innovations in a Dutch university hospital.

Introduction: Escalating global nursing shortages require solutions for efficient care, fewer injuries and lost workdays. When commercial solutions are lacking, innovations developed through co-creation can be a viable alternative. However, many co-created nursing innovations are ineffectively implemented.

Validation of a hand hygiene visual feedback system to improve compliance with drying time of alcohol-based hand rub in a neonatal intensive care unit: the Incubator Traffic Light system.

Background: Compliance with the recommended 30 s drying time of alcohol-based hand rub (ABHR) is often suboptimal. To increase hand hygiene compliance at a neonatal intensive care unit (NICU), we installed an Incubator Traffic Light (ITL) system which shows 'green light' to open incubator doors after the recommended drying time.

Aim: To measure the impact of this visual feedback system on NICU healthcare professionals' compliance with the recommended ABHR drying time.

Body size measuring techniques enabling stress-free growth monitoring of extreme preterm infants inside incubators: A systematic review.

Introduction: Growth monitoring of preterm infants is essential for assessing the nutritional effects on their growth. The current growth monitoring techniques are too stressful, however, for the smallest preterm infants. We performed a systematic review to summarize studies on stress-free techniques for measuring the body size of preterm infants inside incubators other than the traditional calliper and tape measure-based instruments.

Complications after surface replacing and silicone PIP arthroplasty: an analysis of 703 implants.

Introduction: The aim was to analyse complications after surface replacing and silicone proximal interphalangeal (PIP) joint arthroplasty.

Materials And Methods: All complications, reoperations (subsequent intervention without implant modification) and revisions (subsequent surgery with implant modification or removal) were extracted out of our registry for two cohorts: (1) Patients who received a surface replacing arthroplasty at the PIP joint using the CapFlex-PIP prosthesis and (2) patients who received a PIP silicone implant. Furthermore, radiographs were evaluated for deviations from the longitudinal finger axis.

Effect of the use of an antiseptic barrier cap on the rates of central line-associated bloodstream infections in neonatal and pediatric intensive care.

Background: The use of antiseptic barrier caps reduced the occurrence of central line-associated bloodstream infections (CLABSI) in adult intensive care settings. We assessed the effect of the use of antiseptic barrier caps on the incidence of CLABSI in infants and children and evaluated the implementation process.

Methods: We performed a mixed-method, prospective, observational before-after study.