wendyw2

Latest Activity

1. PICU - What are your patient staff ratios?

   wendyw2 posted a topic in PICU, Pediatric

   Hi all It seems that nursing is in dire straights world wide. It has been a standard in Australia that all ventilated children are nursed on a 1 to 1 basis. Occasionally if they have low accuities and...

2. Mentoring in PICU

   wendyw2 replied to LoriA's topic in PICU, Pediatric

   Hi from Australia, A mentor is really someone that the learner choses. A preceptor is someone that you chose for them. Our nurses all have 2 preceptors. We work on the buddy system and the learning...

3. Negotiated Care in PICU

   wendyw2 replied to wendyw2's topic in PICU, Pediatric

   Hi, I located the abstract of the article but can't get the full text yet. There was another book about the Notting Hill Model that came out after that. There has also been subsequent evaluation using...

4. Negotiated Care in PICU

   wendyw2 replied to wendyw2's topic in PICU, Pediatric

   No thats not off the point. Our parents stay for critical incidences and one of the nurses is doing her PhD on parental presence during the times you mention. On occasions the parents have even been...

5. Negotiated Care in PICU

   wendyw2 replied to wendyw2's topic in PICU, Pediatric

   Family Centred care is sort of related but our understanding is that we negotiate the children's management. We've got this document that the parents are supposed to sign when they have 'agreed' to...

6. RSV Precautions

   wendyw2 replied to suzanne4's topic in PICU, Pediatric

   Hi, In our PICU and childrens hospital, we don't do anything other than isolate. Otherwise the usual universal secretion precautions prevail.

7. Negotiated Care in PICU

   wendyw2 posted a topic in PICU, Pediatric

   Hi all, Does anyone have experience, information or comment on the use of Negotiated Care in PICU. Would love to hear from anyone who can help. Our unit in Australia is trying to intoduce it, not too...