Room for Improvement: Nurses' Perceptions of Providing Care in a Single Room Newborn Intensive Care Setting

Advances in Neonatal Care

Volumn 6, Issue 5, 2006, Pages 261-270

  Walsh, William F ^a,b   McCullough, Kristin L ^b   White, Robert D ^c  

^a VANDERBILT UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^b MONROE CARELL JR CHILDREN S HOSPITAL AT VANDERBILT   (United States)

^c INDIANA UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

Author keywords

developmental care; environment; infant; infection; neonatal unit; newborn; newborn intensive care unit; noise; nosocomial infections; safety; single patient room; staff satisfaction; staffing ratios

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; HEALTH CARE FACILITY; HOSPITAL DESIGN; HUMAN; METHODOLOGY; NEWBORN; NEWBORN INTENSIVE CARE; NEWBORN NURSING; NURSING STAFF; PARENT; PSYCHOLOGICAL ASPECT; QUESTIONNAIRE; STANDARD;

HEALTH FACILITY ENVIRONMENT; HOSPITAL DESIGN AND CONSTRUCTION; HUMANS; INFANT, NEWBORN; INTENSIVE CARE UNITS, NEONATAL; NEONATAL NURSING; NURSING STAFF, HOSPITAL; PARENTS; PATIENTS' ROOMS; QUESTIONNAIRES;

EID: 33749536894     PISSN: 15360903     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.adnc.2006.06.002     Document Type: Article

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